E. Stanley Jones Quotes
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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I'm someone who started in the theater and really couldn't stand repeating the show. My favorite part of acting is the five or six weeks of rehearsal that you get. I like doing previews; I like the opening week because my friends and family come, and then after that, I don't want to do it anymore.
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Democracy requires common ground on which all can stand, but that ground is sinking beneath our feet, and democracy may be going down the sinkhole with it.
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Music has a power of forming the character, and should therefore be introduced into the education of the young.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
