Oswald Chambers Quotes
The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am highly distressed and offended by what Donald Trump has been saying, and I don't think his nomination is good for the country. I think he would be a terrible president and terrible for our country.
-
With me serving as the president, we filed a $3-million lawsuit against the league and its member clubs in an attempt to win increased pension benefits and a larger share Of television revenue.
-
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
-
For the wise man looks into space and he knows there is no limited dimensions.
-
It was very unusual, because normally the producer requests the test to determine whether they want to hire someone or not. Olivia was concerned about playing a seventeen year old.
-
My parents are divorced, and seeing that was really painful for me. Really painful for me. But that's also a big part of why I'm intrigued by the dynamics between people – because I was close to something that fell apart.
-
There are many drugs that have many serious side effects and that are harmful to people. Marijuana is no different than that. And especially we should try to discourage young people from using marijuana.
-
I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
-
Fiction seeks to represent human experience as it is lived and as it reverberates in our hopes, fears, dreams, and memories. So much of our lives are internal. The art of fiction has claimed - more than anything else - this internal ground as its own.
-
You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
-
If you're lucky, I think you know what you want to do with your life. I think that's a greater gift that any of the gifts you might have when you do know, if you know what I mean. It must be awful to not know what to do.
-
It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.
-
Creating new jobs for Pennsylvanians continues to be my highest priority throughout the Commonwealth.
-
I would sum up my fear about the future in one word: boring. And that's my one fear: that everything has happened; nothing exciting or new or interesting is ever going to happen again... the future is just going to be a vast, conforming suburb of the soul.
-
There is a profound difference between information and meaning.
-
I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
-
As a young woman, I wanted nothing more than to see my name in lights.
-
All my films have some kind of statement about something - but I have to coat it with entertainment to make it palatable. Otherwise it becomes a polemic, and people don't want to see it. If you're trying to get a message out to people, you've got to entertain them at the same time.
-
I promise you a police car on every sidewalk.
-
Nothing thrills me more than to be good at something. It's very rewarding, and I feel grateful and blessed, and I never take it for granted.
-
There's nothing inherently lame about electricity. I've got a basement full of power tools that all operate with electricity, and they're manly items. And when you see a great big locomotive hauling a mile of freight cars, that's a hybrid. A lot of people don't understand that.
-
It was an experience of a lifetime to sit only a few feet away from him Castro and watch him relive an experience he lived as a very young man.
-
… there are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things…
-
The Spirit is the first power we practically experience, but the last power we come to understand.
