John Ortberg Quotes
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.John Ortberg
Quotes to Explore
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The joining of the whole congregation in prayer has something exceedingly solemn and affecting in it.
Karl Philipp Moritz -
Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
Jack Henry Abbott -
The words of truth are always paradoxical.
Lao Tzu -
I like to get suggestions on what to read. I'll look at Twitter, people I like, people I admire... I'll go and research the book, download it on my phone and read it while I'm on the road.
Vance Joy -
Our goal definitely isn't to sell Stripe.
Patrick Collison -
I don't do anything political on Sundays.
Dan Webster
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If you're a novelist, as I am in real life, you're usually so desperate for any kind of feedback.
Adam Mansbach -
A lot of movies are made to make us dream.
Olga Kurylenko -
Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
Irving Kirsch -
Even when I lost my job at CBS News, I set up shop in my youngest daughter's bedroom and started Brainstormin' Productions and the Hannah Storm Foundation. And guess who was there, visiting me and enthusiastically making business charts and graphs that covered my entire kitchen table? My dad, of course.
Hannah Storm -
Quite often, I have a compelling sense of how a role should be played. And I'm proved - equally as often - quite wrong.
Harold Pinter -
The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.
Aamir Khan
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Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.
Garry Trudeau -
To try and act like we haven't had great progress is not true. Obama didn't fail - he changed the psyche of the nation and, in some ways, the world.
Forest Whitaker -
It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
Barry McGee -
My mom used to say that I became a fighter and a scrapper and a tough guy to protect who I am at my core.
Vin Diesel -
Black players had an issue with Joe Torre. They weren't treated like everybody else. Even I got called out in a couple of meetings that I thought was unfair.
Gary Sheffield -
The spiritual history of the Sixties has yet to be written.
Camille Paglia
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Sushi is one of my favorite foods.
Dylan Penn -
If we despond, public confidence is destroyed, the people will no longer yield their support to a hopeless contest, and American liberty is no more. Through the darkness which shrouds our prospects, the ark of safety is visible. Despondency becomes not the dignity of our cause, nor the character of those who are its supporters.
Samuel Adams -
It's funny that I got to do 'On the Road' because the thing that had the biggest impact on me growing up was reading books. I was very inspired by the book and this spirit of Dean Moriarty and how envious we all are of somebody who can be that carefree.
Garrett Hedlund -
There's kind of this real social pressure to not argue about things.
Jimmy Wales -
The public thinks that homelessness is about not having any accommodation to go to.
Iain Duncan Smith -
Prudence is not hesitation, procrastination, or moderation. It is not driving in the middle of the road. It is not the way of ambivalence, indecision, or safety.
John Ortberg