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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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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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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If you think about photo sharing sites, the mobile photo sharing and social, there's no competitive advantage, there's no obvious business model, so I never play with anything like that. I avoid it like the plague.
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Now and then, especially at night, solitude loses its soft power and loneliness takes over. I am grateful when solitude returns.
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It's time to do something different. Mind you, I'm grateful to have my career with The B-52s, but it's nice to have fun and play with my voice.
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Comets encountering these precincts must be perplexed to decide between the two potentates claiming their allegiance, and perhaps on occasions pay their court to each in turns, throwing out tails, as they do so, in all sorts of anomalous and contradictory directions.
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It's all the same when you're lonely.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
