Oswald Chambers Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
There are more fools than knaves in the world, else the knaves would not have enough to live upon.
-
I look like this for a reason. I was born this way. It was God-given.
-
Being Bob Marley's son has done many things for me, in terms of having a career in music. I'm very proud of my music, and I'm very proud of where I'm from. People hear that I'm Bob Marley's son, and they turn on my music to listen just out of curiosity.
-
I've had enough boyfriends and enough issues. I'd seen enough train wrecks.
-
The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
-
I hadn't learned to read by third grade, which wasn't unusual for some kids. I knew something was wrong because I couldn't see or understand the words the way the other kids did. I wasn't the least bit bothered - until I was sent back to the second-grade classroom for reading help after school.
-
In a democracy, allegations will never improve situations. So, I'm against allegations, but I always welcome criticism.
-
If I saw my 15-year-old self now, I'd think I wasn't that bad, but back then I perceived myself as awful.
-
I remember reading a 'Scientific American' article about the use of new physical techniques - including neutron scattering - as a method for unravelling the structure of the ribosome. I was fascinated.
-
When the dark days come, many wonderful moments, those will all seem dead and empty to you. It will take practice and even hard work to find the joy sometimes.
-
Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
-
After I win a match, I celebrate it by having an ice cream.
-
Poverty is an anomaly to rich people; it is very difficult to make out why people who want dinner do not ring the bell.
-
My sister married an American and took his name, and my brother has shortened Sayrafiezadeh to Sayraf. So now he's Jacob Sayraf, or sometimes Jake Sayraf. He made the change when he was a teenager, prior to the Iranian revolution and the hostage crisis. So I don't think it was motivated by any anti-Iranian sentiment in the United States.
-
The problem is that there is many great chefs and many great cookbooks, but none of them work at home.
-
Telling us to obey instinct is like telling us to obey 'people.' People say different things: so do instincts. Our instincts are at war... Each instinct, if you listen to it, will claim to be gratified at the expense of the rest.
-
It was a labor of love and they did really well.
-
The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.
-
I've always wanted to play Maria in West Side Story. My idol is Natalie Wood, and I love the movie, so I think a modern-day twist on it would be really neat.
-
Each new generation needs to commit again to the foundations of our peaceful coexistence.
-
If the light is right, you can squint at the Taj and see the specter of its black twin on the other side of the Yamuna - and it is then that you truly marvel not just at the Taj, but at the wonder of what might have been.
-
Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
-
If, I can someday see M. Claude Monet's garden, I feel sure that I shall see something that is not so much a garden of flowers as of colours and tones, less an old-fashioned flower garden than a colour garden, so to speak, one that achieves an effect not entirely nature's, because it was planted so that only the flowers with matching colours will bloom at the same time, harmonized in an infinite stretch of blue or pink.
-
When we see Him, we will wonder that we ever could have disobeyed Him.