Oswald Chambers Quotes
Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.
Quotes to Explore
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People that are orthodox when they are young are in danger of being middle-aged all their lives.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I need instant gratification.
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The thing that makes the great players great, and that separates players from different players is, when you going out there whether being prepared or not, you have to react. And if you're thinking, you're already a step behind.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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The importance of local governance may not be obvious to an America accustomed to treating city and state downfalls with doses of federal comeuppance. Sometimes there's a reason for that - the Civil War. More often, all reasoning seems absent - No Child Left Behind.
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We started with things like locating ski runs or locating a transmission line corridor or locating a new town or doing a coastal zone plan. We ourselves weren't doing the planning work, but we were doing all the mapping work for the landscape architects and planners who would subsequently incorporate the maps into their actual designs.
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No phone, a movie, a glass of wine, and some salad. Perfect!
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I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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I came up not understanding that a lot of people didn't start to hear music until they went to college or were turned on by an older brother or sister.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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During my teenage years as an Islamist recruiter, I moved to live in self-contained communities in the London boroughs of Newham and Tower Hamlets.
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I basically took six or seven years off, but then I had another five or four of me not working at all because I was in school. It was really 13 years of me not working at all... I really couldn't even think about it.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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True leadership knows not to go to extremes but knows how to confront and appreciate challenges.
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If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.
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It's a difficult task to deal with cities. But with some original ways of getting things done, with some basic commandments, you can really get cities to be a great, great place to live.
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I grew up on a farm in South Africa, so I’ve always been surrounded by animals. I was raised by a mother who always had great compassion and respect toward animals. It was instilled in me. I grew up that way. So when I see dogs or other animals suffer, it’s just been something close to my heart.
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Not often, but every once in a while, God brings us to a major turning point — a great crossroads in our life.
