Oswald Chambers Quotes

The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

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• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Important
  • Real
  • Truth

• I'm the type of person, I have to study to get an A on the test.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Study
  • Person
  • Test

• Libraries allow children to ask questions about the world and find the answers. And the wonderful thing is that once a child learns to use a library, the doors to learning are always open.

  

  Laura Bush
  • World
  • Children
  • Learning

• Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Freedom
  • First Amendment

• I feel like people who know me, my fans, I want them to know I'm just a regular 21-year-old kid who likes movies, who likes to have fun. It lets people see the other side of you and not just the basketball thing.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Fun
  • Me

• I read that prior to the advent of color TV, most people dreamed in black and white.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • People
  • Black
  • Color

• The great thing about a culture of givers is that's not a delusion - it's reality.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Great
  • Reality
  • Culture

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• Life is a quarry, out of which we are to mold and chisel and complete a character.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Life
  • Character
  • Life Is A

• I was in love with the British 'The Office', so even though I love Steve Carell, when they were going to remake it, I was like, 'This is not going to work. I'm going to completely veto this show. I am not going to watch this show.' But now, I love it.

  

  Sam Huntington
  • Work
  • Like
  • Show

• Friendship, like the immortality of the soul, is too good to be believed.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Good
  • Soul
  • Friendship

• I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.

  

  Harold Pinter
  • People
  • Day
  • Betrayal

• If it's really beautiful weather, sometimes I might take a helicopter out. I got my license in 1999.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • Beautiful
  • Weather
  • License

• Some of the most significant advances in molecular biology have relied upon the methodology of genetics. The same statement may be made concerning our understanding of immunological phenomena.

  

  Baruj Benacerraf
  • May
  • Understanding
  • Same

• A big element of what they regard as conformity is simply a desire to have an audience.

  

  Karel Reisz
  • Desire
  • Audience
  • Conformity

• When I was a kid, there was always food to be had on the street in Jerusalem, but anything above a falafel stand was mediocre or worse.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Food
  • Stand
  • Street

• I have to recognize that my voice is attached to my body, which gets tired.

  

  Verite
  • Body
  • Voice
  • Tired

• My wigs are ever changing in height, width, color, size. They make me feel happy. Wearing them makes me feel like I can be a different person every day and that is kind of exciting.

  

  Nicki Minaj
  • Different
  • Happy
  • Kind

• No matter what you're doing, if you're trying to make a movie, you need to be working with people that are really good and who make you better.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Good
  • Trying

• I love being a part of the country-music community.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Music
  • Country
  • Community

• I mean, it's the life lessons that I suppose you learn that nobody gets a free ride and that you do the best you can with the means that you can and try to open yourself to as much knowledge and all that that you can.

  

  Joe Mantegna
  • Life
  • Free
  • Knowledge

• Baudelaire writes: In certain almost supernatural inner states, the depth of life is entirely revealed in the spectacle, however ordinary, that we have before our eyes, and which becomes the symbol of it." Here we have a passage that designates the phenomenological direction I myself pursue. The exterior spectacle helps intimate grandeur unfold.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Life
  • Eyes
  • States

• The nature of the spiritual life is that we are certain in our uncertainty.

  

  Oswald Chambers
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