E. Stanley Jones Quotes
The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.
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I'm not a Republican.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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Grow up, brother. Pack your bags, go somewhere you matter. They deserve nothing. They're not Magdalenes. You're just a bum among them. You're looking for the poor man within? Why don't you humble yourself at the feet of the rich for once? Or does your God just love useless people?
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My life was changed in one breath from God.
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My message to the world is that until we recognize that peace is not just the absence of war but the revival of life on the "backlines," where women are keeping kids in school, caring for the sick and injured, and daily negotiating space for the continuation of critical life processes of this nature, we're going to continue to miss the point.
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And prayer? How could you pray to a God you wanted to hit?
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Any press is good press. So keep on ragging me.
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The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.
