Oswald Chambers Quotes
If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
-
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.
-
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
-
I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
-
You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
-
We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
-
One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
-
When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
-
Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
-
Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
-
If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
-
The 'chinked out' style is a school of hip hop - that's the way I like to think of it - that incorporates Chinese elements and sounds.
-
I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
-
I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
-
I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
-
There were a few teachers who just did not like me because of my face. Once, I was told to stand in the corner until I cheered up. The attitude was, 'Oh, for God's sake, what's the matter with him?' But it's just a natural expression.
-
What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
-
Performers are the neediest people in the world. Unless you've been in that goldfish bowl - nobody can judge unless they've worn those shoes.
-
No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.
-
We're no longer in the days where everything is super well crafted. But at the heart of the programs that make it to the top, you'll find that the key internal code was done by a few people who really know what they were doing.
-
As Secretary of State, we need someone with sound judgment, ask tough questions, and should not be willing to just read talking points.
-
If changing our world is playing God, it is just one more way in which God made us in His image.
-
If ever we are going to be made into wine, we will have to be crushed; you cannot drink grapes. Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed. I wonder what kind of finger and thumb God has been using to squeeze you, and you have been like a marble and escaped?
