John Ortberg Quotes

In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.

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• Scores of armed antigovernment groups, some of them far more radical, have formed or been revived during the Obama years, according to law-enforcement agencies and outside watchdogs.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Law
  • Years
  • Far

• New York is my home.

  

  Vanessa Williams
  • Home
  • New
  • New York

• You possess a potent force that you either use, or misuse, hundreds of times every day.

  

  J. Martin Kohe
  • You
  • Day
  • Everyday

• Love is the ability and willingness to allow those that you care for to be what they choose for themselves without any insistence that they satisfy you.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Love
  • Care
  • Love Is

• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Beginning
  • Idea
  • Riches

• It's human nature to not say everything that's on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We're afraid of being embarrassed.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Time
  • Mind

• I certainly used to wish that I was skinny, lighter-skinned, with long, pretty hair. But only because I used to get made fun of for being the absolute opposite. I didn't see all of that stuff as the American Dream. I just wanted to look normal. Now that I'm older, I really do feel like I am a beautiful girl.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Long
  • American
  • Fun

• I think democracy is on the decline in the West. Ruling parties are the same: neo-liberalism at home and wars abroad.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Home
  • Think
  • Democracy

• Circle are praised, not that abound, In largeness, but the exactly round.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Circle
  • Round
  • Praised

• Half of the harm that is done in this world is due to people who want to feel important. They don't mean to do harm. But the harm does not interest them.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • People
  • World
  • Important

• As long as the Pentagon bankrolls the Pakistan army to fight its wars, and NATO troops remain in Afghanistan, there will be quarrels, charges of infidelity, a reduction in the household allowance, perhaps a separation - but a divorce? Never.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Long
  • Fight
  • Army

• The Toast's audience is about 30-35 percent male, which shocked me because I would say that we actively try to discourage men from reading our site. Apparently, there's not insignificant number of dudes out there who think that what we are doing is okay.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Men
  • Think
  • Reading

• If only I may grow: firmer, simpler, quieter, warmer.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • May
  • Grow
  • Only

• If we were handling a bomb which could go off at any minute as a result of our actions, we would mind ourselves and be delicate. Our words have the same power, yet we wield them around as though they were powerless and insignificant.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Mind
  • Power
  • Words

• How do you sustain yourself when all the old structures people looked to for support - religion, family, ethnic solidarity - are crumbling, or feel so false that you refuse to avail yourself of them? What comes next?

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • People
  • Family
  • Support

• I have lived the life of the entrepreneur, and so I know the pain they are feeling. I know the daily ups and downs they go through. You know, they have their highs and lows sometimes within a matter of hours in a day.

  

  Ram Shriram
  • Life
  • Feeling
  • Day

• It makes the heart to tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Heart
  • You
  • Open

• When I feel like my body is exhausted, I focus on making my fifth Olympic team so I can push through it.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Team
  • Focus
  • Body

• You make observations, write theories to fit them, try experiments to disprove the theories and, if you can't, you've got something.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • You
  • Try
  • Something

• You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

  

  Cindy Crawford
  • Baby
  • Mirror

• It isn't just the physical presence of the father that matters- it's his engagement and involvement. An emotionally remote or rejecting or actively punitive father leads to girls' feeling pretty apprehensive around men.

  

  Victoria Secunda
  • Men
  • Father
  • Pretty

• When you know you have great support from the studio, that's a great feeling, and when it's the creative support, that's great.

  

  Ramin Djawadi
  • Feeling
  • Support
  • Creative

• Make a commitment today to something bigger and more important than yourself.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Today
  • Commitment

• In my love-challenged condition, seeing a difficulty for someone else can leave me feeling a little more smug or superior-by-comparison.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Feeling