Frederick Buechner Quotes

Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

Frederick Buechner

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• The options are war versus peace, and I am delighted that, so far, it appears that peaceful negotiation has won the day.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • War
  • Peace
  • Day

• I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Time
  • Death
  • Too Much

• We have lost the idea that something can be secret because it is valuable, not because it's shameful. If you share everything with everybody, what have you got for yourself? I tweet and I blog, but I save a lot for myself. Not because I am ashamed.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Idea
  • Secret
  • Valuable

• I think you have to keep a childlike quality to play music or make a record.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Think
  • Quality

• I am in love with myself, with my friends, with my family, with kids, with life and my movies.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Life
  • Family
  • Kids

• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
  • American
  • Know

• I want to be the defensive player to break the MVP barrier. I want to break barriers. I want to do things when people tell me I can't.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• With the greatest of respect, I have watched Apple from the day it started. I was publishing magazines about the Apple II before most people had ever heard what a personal computer was.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • People
  • Respect
  • Day

• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Never
  • Criticism
  • Salt

• You have injuries that bother you when you're not playing. When that horn blows, you don't feel it.

  

  Karl Malone
  • You
  • Feel
  • Injuries

• The meek shall inherit the Earth, but not its mineral rights.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Earth
  • Rights

• With the right kind of financing, I think we can grow by 100 percent per year.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Think
  • Year
  • Grow

• If it's a close election, then it's better for the Supreme Court to pick the president, whether or not he won the election. It's just insane on its face.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Better
  • Face
  • Election

• The turkey has a destiny which ends on San Martino's day.

  

  Waverley Lewis Root
  • Day
  • Destiny
  • Turkey

• One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Time
  • Trust
  • Deep

• You've got to eat while you dream. You've got to deliver on short-range commitments, while you develop a long-range strategy and vision and implement it. The success of doing both. Walking and chewing gum if you will. Getting it done in the short-range, and delivering a long-range plan, and executing on that.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Long
  • Done
  • Success

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• I'm a germ-phobe when I meet a lot of people or shake a lot of hands. I always have hand sanitizer and alcohol swabs so I can sort of go back and forth between the two.

  

  Mandy Moore
  • People
  • Hand
  • Hands

• One faith, St. Paul writes (Eph. 4:5). Hold most firmly that our faith is identical with that of the ancients. Deny this, and you dissolve the unity of the Church ... We must hold this for certain, namely: that the faith of the people at the present day is one with the faith of the people in past centuries. Were this not true, then we would be in a different church than they were in and, literally, the Church would not be One.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • People
  • Faith
  • Church

• Remember before nineteen seventy two Olympic Games I was total skinny, I was small, very strong, they may be don't like to see a gymnastics like that. I don't know but, gymnastics, might. Nineteen seventy two supposed to be change somewhere.

  

  Olga Korbut
  • May
  • Remember
  • Strong

• I have learnt sketching, drawing, singing, dancing, rifle shooting, paragliding.

  

  Divyanka Tripathi
  • Singing
  • Drawing

• Faith is stepping out into the unknown with nothing to guide us but a hand just beyond our grasp.

  

  Frederick Buechner
  • Faith
  • Hand
  • Unknown