James Dobson Quotes

I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

James Dobson

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• Let's judge a man on what he's done.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Done
  • Man
  • Judge

• I've spent so many years talking about poverty and economic justice, I'm strongly tempted to get biblical. Jesus' teachings are so radical; they're just insanely generous and apocalyptic. Christians become more fascinated by the dead Jesus. They don't like the living Jesus.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Justice
  • Jesus
  • Poverty

• Alan Rickman's Hans Gruber is the greatest bad guy in a movie ever.

  

  Ike Barinholtz
  • Bad
  • Movie
  • Guy

• It is much more difficult to measure nonperformance than performance.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Wisdom
  • Performance
  • Measure

• At the core, we are dealing with two parties that have fundamentally different views of the world.

  

  Karl Rove
  • World
  • Different
  • Two

• Losing a child is probably the singular most horrible thing.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Child
  • Losing
  • Horrible

• I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

  

  Barbara Taylor Bradford
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sometimes
  • Rules
  • Mortgage

• I'm a chubby middle-aged white guy with short hair. I think that's it, really. I kind of have a look. Right now, I'm not fat enough to be the fat friend, but I'm not thin enough to be the leading man, so I look like a cop.

  

  Aaron Douglas
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Friend

• I taught myself how to play the guitar. I never studied music.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Music
  • Myself
  • Guitar

• The Western poet and writer of romance has exactly the same kind of difficulty in comprehending Eastern subjects as you have in comprehending Western subjects.

  

  Lafcadio Hearn
  • You
  • Kind
  • Same

• I've always written songs the same way. You learn different tricks - you learn craft, you learn structure, all that - as you go.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Different
  • You
  • Learn

• Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Used
  • Prosperity
  • Instrument

• Every time I work on a new set, I take whatever I can from it and learn as much as I can around the people who I am working with.

  

  Sammi Hanratty
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• I try to widen the horizons of every child I meet, and part of that is promoting diverse forms, be it graphic novels, stories told in a narrative voice, or more translated books, as well as more diverse writers and more diverse characters.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • Child
  • Voice
  • Try

• Small Faces were really a soul band as far as we were concerned. That's what we listened to; that's what we played, you know? We were pretty much based on Booker T. and the M.G.'s.

  

  Ian McLagan Small Faces
  • Soul
  • Pretty
  • Small

• Your plays are always personal. You can't help seeing yourself in the serial killer you've just written. But they get less specifically personal.

  

  Laura Wade
  • Help
  • Always
  • Yourself

• I'm almost completely without family and it's a very odd feeling in life. I have no children.

  

  Walter Mosley
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• At no time did I intend to, or do I believe that I did put forward false information to the American people.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• Your greatest asset is your earning ability, to apply your knowledge, skills in order to get results which others will pay.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Knowledge
  • Ability
  • Order

• It was a marriage made in heaven. The ads created a lot of buzz, and sales rose 24.7 percent in July.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Heaven
  • Marriage
  • Rose

• The fittest time to corrupt a man's wife is when she's fallen out with her husband.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Men
  • Wife
  • Marriage

• The more I see of deer, the more I admire them as mountaineers. They make their way into the heart of the roughest solitudes with smooth reserve of strength, through dense belts of brush and forest encumbered with fallen trees and boulder piles, across canons, roaring streams, and snow-fields, ever showing forth beauty and courage.

  

  John Muir
  • Heart
  • Courage
  • Snow

• I'm certain that most couples expect to find intimacy in marriage, but it somehow eludes them.

  

  James Dobson
  • Marriage
  • Intimacy