Oswald Chambers Quotes

Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

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• Miss Sarzin was the best teacher I ever had.

  

  Karen Joy Fowler
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• Although it's the hub of the nervous system and the ultimate terminus of every nerve, the brain itself lacks enervation and therefore cannot feel pain.

  

  Sam Kean
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  • Brain
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• I was looking at my Instagram, and someone said to me, 'Who manages your Instagram?' I would never let anyone manage my Instagram! I enjoy it.

  

  Kate Hudson
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  • Enjoy
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• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
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• Don't dress to kill, dress to survive.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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• The problem of working in a mine, you are inside the belly of the monster, and it controls you. The air you breathe, the stones that fall on your head, we had to be on guard.

  

  Patricia Riggen
  • Problem
  • Fall
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• When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Truth
  • Trust
  • Promise

• Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the deficiency of reason by the superiority of their senses.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Parents
  • Reason

• Parents are telling other parents that you can save a lot of money renting. Forever they've been looking for a solution to higher textbook prices.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Forever

• With Twitter, you can build your own virtual trading floor and research department, populated by the smartest people on earth. Almost any subject or sector has you can think of, you can find a few people with an expertise in that area.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • People
  • Earth
  • Research

• In the end, I think part of my problem was that I was a better legislator than I was a politician.

  

  Dan Maffei
  • Problem
  • Better
  • End

• Idealism, unrealistic idealism, is always contrasted with the reality of the people, of the man in the street. The details of daily life are always more convincing than the political fantasies of the earlier generations.

  

  Orhan Pamuk
  • People
  • Life
  • Man

• I'm terrible at horror movies, by the way. I get scared so easily.

  

  Oliver Stone
  • Way
  • Movies
  • Scared

• Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Life
  • Up
  • Work

• The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Deception

• I love thinking about the film, the project and committing myself as much as possible.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Thinking
  • Project
  • Committing

• The project which we developed, however, was for a sound piece and I was initially curious that a sculptor should be interested in working with a musician, especially on a project for radio.

  

  Gavin Bryars
  • Working
  • Sound
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• The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • You
  • Back
  • Bottle

• All the jazz guys had interracial relationships, and even the ladies did. Over the years, interracial relationships have been a hip, almost defiant thing, a way of saying "Nobody can put a boundary around me."

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Guy
  • Jazz
  • Boundaries

• From their breakout 2002 single, 'Losing My Edge,' LCD Soundsystem have offered a unique combination of geek knowledge, passion and intelligent, ironic distance.

  

  Katie Kitamura
  • Knowledge
  • Single
  • Passion

• A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding.

  

  Douglas MacArthur
  • World
  • Faith
  • Understanding

• Our problem is this: we usually discover him within some denominational or Christian ghetto. We meet him in a province and, having caught some little view, we paint him in smaller strokes. The Lion of Judah is reduced to something kittenish because our understanding cannot, at first, write larger definitions.

  

  Calvin Miller
  • Writing
  • Problem
  • Understanding

• The intellectual finds it reassuring to say that the businessman gets his money by luck; or monopoly, or exploitation, or dishonesty, or what have you. As a matter of fact, the truly dishonest man will last longer in college -teaching or the ministry than he will in the business world.

  

  Benjamin A. Rogge
  • Money
  • College
  • Businessman

• Faith is not intelligent understanding, faith is deliberate commitment to a Person where I see no way.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Way
  • Faith
  • Understanding