Philip Yancey Quotes

I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.

Philip Yancey

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• One guy that I wish was here right now, Ted Williams, helped me so much, our long talks, not about hitting but about fishing, one of Ted's passions, and I wish he was here today to share this with me because I owe so much to Ted Williams.

  

  Wade Boggs
  • Long
  • Today
  • Guy

• I'm a big believer in the idea that while we are the sum of our tears, we are also the product of our choices in how we deal with those tears.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Choices
  • Tears
  • Product

• Amazon is not a monopoly or a monopsony, and even if it were, that by itself isn't illegal.

  

  J. A. Konrath
  • Even
  • Monopoly
  • Were

• In the happy scenes there were really fun times. Sean would say really funny stuff because he likes to improv. I would want to laugh, but you are not allowed to do that during the take.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Happy
  • Fun
  • Funny

• War is being declared tomorrow here so perhaps you can understand that I have been working under difficulties, but difficulties negligible compared with what others have to go through.

  

  Malcolm Lowry
  • War
  • Understand
  • Tomorrow

• When creating an album, one of the first things you have to think about is what you want your production style to be.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Think
  • Want
  • Style

• I don't like exercising; I'll be honest with you.

  

  Camila Alves
  • You
  • Like
  • Honest

• Even allegedly gender-neutral words like 'sexist' imply slights only against women.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Women
  • Words

• Just once in a while let us exalt the importance of ideas and information.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Business
  • True
  • Soul

• Vae victis!

  

  Livy

• Class instinct is subjective and spontaneous. ... To arrive at proletarian class positions, the class instinct of proletarians only needs to be educated; the class instinct of the petty bourgeoisie, and hence of intellectuals, has, on the contrary, to be revolutionized.

  

  Louis Althusser
  • Petty

• Everything considered, a determined soul will always manage.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Soul

• In whatever kind of a 'race' life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

  

  Christopher Hitchens
  • Life
  • May

• I want to show all sides of myself. I mean, I don't want to howl at the moon my whole life, you know?

  

  Pauly Shore
  • Life
  • Moon

• I always loved clothes, just not clothes that were appropriate to the place I grew up in.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • Up

• Making a bougie, expensive beauty brand wasn't helping the mission or very fun for me. We can all be united by that $12 coconut balm. You don't need to charge an arm and a leg.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • Fun

• Hunter can write a melody and stuff like that, but his forte is lyrics. He can write a serviceable melody to hang his lyrics on, and sometimes he comes up with something really nice.

  

  Jerry Garcia Grateful Dead
  • Up
  • Nice
  • Lyrics

• It's better to focus on one film rather than take up two or three films at the same time.

  

  Kriti Sanon
  • Up
  • Time
  • Focus

• A naturall foole that could never learn by heart the order of numerall words, as one , two , and three , may observe every stroak of the Clock, and nod to it, or say one, one, one; but can never know what houre it strikes.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Heart
  • Foole
  • Stroak

• The only way to win tournaments is with the short game. Over half your shots out here are within 30 or 40 yards. Ballstriking is where I'm trying to improve, yes, but more to eliminate big numbers than make birdies.

  

  Phil Mickelson
  • Trying
  • Game

• You have to keep a feeling of goodness in your exteriors.

  

  Leandra Medine
  • Feeling

• Nigera is what it is because its leaders are not what they should be.

  

  Chinua Achebe

• I think guilt is directional. You should get rid of it, but the way to get rid of it is not to get rid of the guilt feelings. It is to get rid of the wrong that you did that caused the guilt feelings.

  

  Philip Yancey