Oswald Chambers Quotes

Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

Oswald Chambers

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• Love is important. I didn't have the energy to be giving it to somebody else in a way that they deserved, and I knew that. So I've always been scared to go too far with somebody I care for because I knew there would come a day when I'd need to pick up and finish a painting for the next three months. That day is inevitable.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Important
  • Giving
  • Way

• We want a story that starts out with an earthquake and works its way up to a climax.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Up
  • Want
  • Way

• All of my books are based in some way on my personal experiences, or the experiences of members of my family, or the stories kids would tell me in school.

  

  Patricia Reilly Giff
  • Family
  • Kids
  • Way

• I wear my Viking helmet because the horns define how sharp my brains are. If you try to rub me the wrong way, I will stick you with both of my horns.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Way
  • Me
  • Wrong

• That's what film can do in a way that TV and other long-form storytelling can't. It gives you this very immersive moment.

  

  J. C. Chandor
  • Long
  • Way
  • Film

• It will be undertaken, of course, in the June or July summit, and then to bring NATO closer to Russia or vice versa is a way to move toward integration - toward the integration of Europe.

  

  Warren Christopher
  • Way
  • Europe
  • June

• It has never been my object to record my dreams, just the determination to realize them.

  

  Man Ray
  • Never
  • Dreams
  • Determination

• In a world that's smarter than it used to be and, in some ways, smarter than it ought to be, stupidity has a way of making us seem all the more human.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • World
  • Way
  • Stupidity

• In general, all cancers have been traditionally characterized by the way they appear under the microscope and the organs in which they arise.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Way
  • General
  • Microscope

• The quickest way may not necessarily be the best.

  

  Kalpana Chawla
  • May
  • Way
  • Best

• Sexual relations, of course, have existed, exist, and will exist. However, this is in no way connected with the indispensability of the existence of the family.

  

  Ferdinand Mount
  • Family
  • Way
  • Existence

• Regulators are going to have to come up with a way to treat Bitcoin that is balanced and thoughtful but also recognize that this is a global phenomenon.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • Up
  • Way
  • Treat

• I developed an optical lure that imitates certain types of bioluminescent displays that I think might be attractive to large predators. The other way to do it is just use dead bait, but I think dead bait attracts scavengers, and we wanted to attract active predators.

  

  Edith Widder
  • Think
  • Way
  • Dead

• Indian writers have appropriated English as an Indian language, and that gives a certain freshness to the way we write.

  

  Vikas Swarup
  • Way
  • English
  • Language

• I hate the way chorus boxes sound.

  

  Pat Metheny
  • Way
  • Hate
  • Sound

• I really like the way Fox handles their shows.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Way
  • Like
  • Fox

• I guess I'm kind of used to it because it's always been that way for me.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Way
  • Always
  • Guess

• Every writer uses his own way to motivate oneself.

  

  Rabih Alameddine
  • Way
  • Writer
  • Own

• My art springs from my desire to have things in the world which would otherwise never be there.

  

  Carl Andre
  • World
  • Art
  • Desire

• The current generation now sees everything clearly, it marvels at the errors, it laughs at the folly of its ancestors, not seeing that this chronicle is all overscored by divine fire, that every letter of it cries out, that from everywhere the piercing finger is pointed at it, at this current generation; but the current generation laughs and presumptuously, proudly begins a series of new errors, at which their descendants will also laugh afterwards.

  

  Nikolai Gogol
  • Generation
  • Errors
  • Laughs

• I’m no part time dilettante photographer, unlike the bartenders, shoe salesmen, floorwalkers plumbers, barbers, grocery clerks and chiropractors whose great hobby is their camera. All their friends rave about what wonderful pictures they take. If they’re so good, why don’t they take pictures full—time, for a living, and make floor walking, chiropractics, etc., their hobby? But everyone wants to play it safe. They’re afraid to give up their pay checks and their security they might miss a meal.

  

  Weegee
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• Any customer that walks away, disrespected and defeated, represents tens of thousands of dollars out the door, in addition to the failure of a promise the brand made in the first place. You can't see it but it's happening, daily.

  

  Seth Godin
  • Promise
  • Doors
  • Customers

• Fretting springs from a determination to get our own way.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Way
  • Determination
  • Fretting