Oswald Chambers Quotes

Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

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• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

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• Being on 'The Sopranos' definitely prepared me for the militant secrecy of 'Mad Men.'

  

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• The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.

  

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• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

  

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• So as I was growing up, my father was always in the middle of making a film or preparing a film. It was a full-time, all-consuming type of operation.

  

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• Now, my father Matthias was not only eminent on account of is nobility, but had a higher commendation on account of his righteousness, and was in great reputation in Jerusalem, the greatest city we have.

  

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• My father always said I have a face for radio, and 'Cloverfield' was one of my finest pieces of work.

  

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• When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.

  

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• Even though he's a third-generation San Franciscan, my father's very European in some ways, and he loves wine.

  

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• My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.

  

  Damian Marley
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• Like all weak men he laid an exaggerated stress on not changing one's mind.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
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• Men who betray women also betray other men. Women shouldn't feel so special.

  

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• My father and my mother separated when I was two.

  

  Carla Gugino
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• I am an expert of electricity. My father occupied the chair of applied electricity at the state prison.

  

  W. C. Fields
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• My father was a misanthrope who slept all day and stayed up all night so that he wouldn't have to see people. He ran a business with a large staff but would go there at night and leave things for them to do during the day when he wasn't there.

  

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• Fifty-nine cents. For years, I wore a button - '59 cents.' Many of my colleagues wore it also. The purpose was so that people would come up and ask, 'What does '59 cents' mean?' One could then launch into a discussion about how women working full time in the U.S. earn 59 cents for every dollar earned by men.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • People
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• Even more than the Pill, what has liberated women is that they no longer need to depend on men economically.

  

  Jane Bryant Quinn
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• We were kids without fathers, so we found our fathers on wax and on the streets and in history, and in a way, that was a gift. We got to pick and choose the ancestors who would inspire the world we were going to make for ourselves.

  

  Jay-Z
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• What do you mean, I'm a wild front man! I'm jumping all over, I do the dance moves.

  

  Layne Thomas Staley Alice in Chains
  • Men
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• I know my mother so well, so it's hard for me to remember that people have a certain image of her, but they don't really know her personality.

  

  Caroline Kennedy
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• You can say now, 'I dissed him' - to diss, I dissed him - or, 'Stop dissing her'. And that's the interesting thing, that it's the prefix that's become the verb! It's a most remarkable development.

  

  David Crystal
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• Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Men
  • Father
  • Lord