Oswald Chambers Quotes
Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
Quotes to Explore
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I don't get manicures, pedicures. I don't get my hair done as often as I should.
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People think I look odd onstage. But the way I deal with being incredibly nervous is by concentrating really hard.
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Music for me is an emotional thing and it really does make me happy. It's not a tool for me to get fame or see my face in the papers or anything like that. It's about the fact that I really do enjoy it.
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Love what you do, not the love you get for doing it.
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It is absolutely unacceptable to think that in the last year of the president's term, that he should stop doing his job, and he won't.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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Since the end of the Cold War, Soviet aggression had been replaced by a number of particularly venomous threats, from Timothy McVeigh to Osama bin Laden.
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We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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There's a lot of risk in putting what you suspect you really are into your music.
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I've always had an addictive nature.
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I was about 10 when I got into nuclear science. That was when that spark hit me. It took a few years of research, but when I was 14, I produced my first nuclear-fusion reaction.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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Many novice writers try to avoid using 'said' by substituting synonyms: 'he uttered,' 'she murmured,' 'he questioned.' It's true that any word repeated too often becomes monotonous, but substitutions for 'said' can be worse than its repetition.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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One of the secrets of a successful life is to be able to hold all of our energies upon one point, to focus all of the scattered rays of the mind upon one place or thing.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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As a mom, I don't have much time for beauty.
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I do love to capture beauty in this world. And photos can last the test of time.
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In fiction, I exercise my nosiness. I am as curious as my cats, and indeed that has led to trouble often enough and used up several of my nine lives. I am an avid listener. I am fascinated by other people's lives, the choices they make and how that works out through time, what they have done and left undone, what they tell me and what they keep secret and silent, what they lie about and what they confess, what they are proud of and what shames them, what they hope for and what they fear. The source of my fiction is the desire to understand people and their choices through time.
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The best performers in Europe are those who use their welfare states to help people adjust to change.
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I cannot say that I was a particularly diligent student, especially during the lower grades.
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Faith is deliberate confidence in the character of God whose ways you cannot understand at the time.
