Oswald Chambers Quotes

We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

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• I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Green
  • Eat
  • Vegetables

• I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.

  

  Adam Brody
  • Dream
  • Lost
  • Fight

• My parents were very supportive of me and my artistic endeavours. My father and mother came to every school play I ever did.

  

  Jack Black
  • School
  • Mother
  • Father

• I don't have a goal but I just want to work on movies that I really like.

  

  Patricia Arquette
  • Work
  • Goal
  • Movies

• Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.

  

  Vesta Williams
  • Country
  • Real
  • Girl

• When I was eight, a hippie guy taught me how to meditate and gave me this scarf I was supposed to wear when I meditated. I still have it; it's probably one of the items that mean most to me.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Guy
  • Me
  • Mean

• I would rather be lying in a bed than changing one.

  

  Usain Bolt
  • Lying
  • Changing
  • Bed

• There are two ways of spreading light: to be the candle or the mirror that reflects it.

  

  Edith Wharton
  • Light
  • inspirational
  • Mirror

• If a song can't be written in 20 minutes, it ain't worth writing.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Writing
  • Song
  • Minutes

• I firmly believe that in every situation, no matter how difficult, God extends grace greater than the hardship, and strength and peace of mind that can lead us to a place higher than where we were before.

  

  Andy Griffith
  • God
  • Believe
  • Mind

• We could have had it all...

  

  Adele
  • All
  • We

• As a producer or financier, you are going to go where you get the best bang for your buck.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Producers
  • Bangs
  • Bucks

• You guys ready to do this?

  

  Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings
  • Guy
  • Vision
  • Ready

• I think the general public is going to be surprised by this. It's not out there yet.

  

  Hank Williams
  • Public
  • Surprised

• The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • Secret
  • Missionary

• Carbon monoxide is an invisible killer, odorless and colorless. Keep generators a safe distance from your home, away from open doors, windows and vents. Don't take a chance.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Home
  • Chance
  • Distance

• My counsel is, to force nothing, and rather to trifle and sleep away all unproductive days and hours, than on such days to compose something that will afterwards give no pleasure.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Pleasure
  • Counsel
  • Compose

• To say that he hated it would be unjust, for, like most sensible people, he held hatred to be an elixir far too precious to be wasted on trivial matters.

  

  Edgar Saltus
  • Hated
  • Precious
  • Trivial

• I regard myself as someone who is retired but who occasionally goes out to work. In fact, I'm offered so much good stuff that it's not so occasional.

  

  Michael Caine
  • Facts
  • Stuff
  • Regard

• I noticed that I used to go to second hand shops and flea markets and find funny, cute things, but now I go into those stores, and I think, This is dead people's stuff. This is all, like, somebody cleaned out their parents' house, and I don't want any of it. If I didn't want it from my parents, I don't want it from your parents.

  

  Roz Chast
  • House
  • Hands
  • Parent

• We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Stuff
  • Built
  • Valley