Oswald Chambers Quotes
The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
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No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism, with its blue-skinned gods and peony-lipped goddesses, and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color: Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder, all violently hued, on their marks.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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To me, there's no point in writing merely to entertain.
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I grew up in a Hindu household but went to a Roman Catholic school. I grew up with a mother who said, 'I'll arrange a marriage for you at 18,' but she also said that we could achieve anything we put our minds to an encourage us to dream of becoming prime minister or president.
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I have friends who say, 'You just can't understand what it's like to be a mother until you're a mother.'
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I think there is one higher office than president and I would call that patriot.
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In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.
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The power chords in 'Come Sail Away' were super heavy to me as a kid. Metal? No. Hard rock? At times, for sure.
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Most importantly, nothing has happened to change my conviction that freedom and the love of liberty remain the essential defining attributes of our national character as a people.
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I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?
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Monsieur Saint Laurent was pathologically shy, and he made the Saint Laurent woman in his own image. Like her, I am shy. And to protect myself, I adopted something of an androgynous look, just as his women did.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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When I talked to him on the phone yesterday. I called him George rather than Mr. Vice President. But, in public, it's Mr. Vice President, because that is who he is.
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I know what it feels like to be a victim of domestic violence.
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Find the appropriate balance of competing claims by various groups of stakeholders. All claims deserve consideration but some claims are more important than others.
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I didn't grow up a huge fan of the Western genre because there was never a female character to relate to or look up to.
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The United States was an innocent victim after September 11. It had never attacked or occupied Afghanistan. So therefore it had no choice but to go after the aggressors.
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The point of jazz is, you do something and then you go on.
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Every paint-stroke takes you farther and farther away from your initial concept. And you have to be thankful for that.
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The fate of the living planet is the most important issue facing mankind.
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My father is my best friend. He's my idol and my boss. We work side by side and spend every weekend together.
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God loves all those who love him: I love them that love Me.
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The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.
