John Ortberg Quotes
Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.John Ortberg
Quotes to Explore
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
Gary Calamar -
Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
Walter Pater -
When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
Lance Burton -
Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
P. J. O'Rourke -
In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
Rachel Weisz -
I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
LaToya Jackson
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
Taylor Momsen -
Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
Victor Hugo -
Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
D. H. Lawrence -
I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
Kate Bush -
Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
Walt Whitman -
Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
Ibrahim Rugova
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
Viktor Yushchenko -
If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
Hal Sparks -
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
Abraham Lincoln -
I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
Candice Bergen -
I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
Manoj Bhargava
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I love Damien Hirst. I respect his work a great deal, and I am happy that the polka dots I started using have become a symbol of love and peace around the world with everybody joining hands to use them in this way.
Yayoi Kusama -
He who seeks for gain, must be at some expense.
Plautus -
The core of the culture is racism and how black men are viewed. They've always been demonized and seen as threats in our culture. Another holdover from slavery. We've got to deal with that core root of racism and demonization of the upbringing of black men. Black women are not exempt by any means.
Marian Wright Edelman -
I have never been in a natural place and felt that it was a waste of time. I never have. And it's a relief. If I'm walking around a desert or whatever, every second is worthwhile.
Viggo Mortensen -
Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.
John Ortberg