Oswald Chambers Quotes

Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

Oswald Chambers

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• So, I get a kick out of working with the media.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Working
  • Media
  • Out

• I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.

  

  Sam Raimi
  • Always
  • Audience
  • Movies

• Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.

  

  Sadhu Vaswani
  • Up
  • Great
  • God

• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • World
  • Confidence
  • Goals

• I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Universe
  • Care
  • Revenge

• As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.

  

  Hank Stram
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Time
  • School
  • Left

• I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Think
  • Hate
  • Noise

• You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • People
  • Happy
  • Learn

• I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.

  

  Om Puri
  • Child
  • Theatre
  • Grateful

• I never want my kids to feel like I'm just some housewife who was just kicking it with my husband, because that's not the kind of woman that I am.

  

  Tamar Braxton
  • Kids
  • Woman
  • Husband

• High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • High
  • College

• Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.

  

  A. Philip Randolph
  • Home
  • Democracy
  • Mood

• If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.

  

  Nana Mouskouri
  • Happy
  • Sad
  • Jump

• I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.

  

  Taylor Jenkins Reid
  • People
  • Life
  • Love

• I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.

  

  Adam Ferrara
  • Fun
  • Desert
  • Ferrari

• When I was in New York after I left the Army, I studied for two years at the American Theater Wing, studied acting, which involved dance and fencing and speech classes and history of theater, all that.

  

  James Earl Jones
  • American
  • History
  • Dance

• I stopped smoking. But my personality I still have. I get up in the morning, and not everybody loves me, so if you want to call that a bad habit, there's that.

  

  Don Rickles
  • Up
  • Bad
  • Morning

• You don't have to be singing specifically about things that are going on in your life, but because of the nature of music, because it is this incredibly emotional phenomenon, everything that you are feeling or experiencing is relayed in the music you put out.

  

  Henry Olusegun Adeola Samuel
  • Life
  • Music
  • Nature

• My husband cooks fancier food for himself than I've ever cooked on-air. I call him from the road, and he's making champagne-vanilla salmon or black-cherry pork chop. Half of me is feeling unworthy. Not only am I not a chef, I'm not a better cook than my own husband!

  

  Rachael Ray
  • Black
  • Feeling
  • Food

• We live under majority rule and if that majority is not well educated in its responsibilities, the whole Nation suffers.

  

  John F. Kennedy
  • Live

• Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Nature
  • Faith
  • Prayer