John Ortberg Quotes

When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.

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• Women are able to fit public service into their lives. Once they find out they like it and can do it, there is plenty of room to grow.

  

  Maggie Hassan
  • Women
  • Service
  • Grow

• One theme I ran into over and over while writing about the periodic table was the future of energy and the question of which element or elements will replace carbon as king.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Writing
  • Future
  • Energy

• I feel there is a big sense of accomplishment and achievement and self worth through what you do no matter what the job, no matter what you decide to dedicate your life to.

  

  Xochi Birch
  • Life
  • Job
  • Achievement

• I would not describe myself as an avid jazz fan and I am not a jazz musician myself. However, that is not to say that jazz does not play a vital and important role in my life.

  

  Nat Wolff
  • Life
  • Important
  • Myself

• I keep trying to convince people that I'm OK to wrestle, and I think that's probably the hard part. A lot of times I'm trying to convince myself, too, that I can wrestle. It's really hard, because the concussion issue is very subjective, and that's the part that a lot of people don't understand.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • People
  • Trying
  • Myself

• Al Jazeera is known in the Arab world as the voice of freedom of expression.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • World
  • Freedom
  • Voice

• Leather accents on pieces make it fun and spices up an outfit.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Leather

• The one thing that the president continues to diminish, which I think is unfortunate, is the fact that the Russian government, at the highest level, deliberately interfered with our election in 2016, and according to all of our experts in the intelligence community, they are coming back with more force in 2018 and 2020.

  

  Jack Reed
  • Community
  • Intelligence

• I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.

  

  S. Truett Cathy
  • People
  • Good
  • Business

• Will I miss Gandalf? Well, I don't miss him, because people are constantly coming up to me mentioning him and talking about him, so I don't feel that I've lost contact.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • People
  • Feel
  • Contact

• A pessimist is one who builds dungeons in the air.

  

  Walter Winchell
  • Air
  • Pessimist
  • Who

• In high school, I played in a Rush cover band.

  

  Sam Trammell
  • School
  • High
  • Band

• I got a little house in East L.A. and did the gardening. I was doing some acting here and there, doing my own thing... getting back to reality.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • House
  • Reality
  • Acting

• It must be the PGA Championship if it's August and you can sit down and talk to the heat or reach inside your shirt, where it's 110 degrees, and grab handfuls of humidity.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • You
  • Down
  • Reach

• Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Look
  • Republican
  • Newspaper

• Nobody's gonna care about your stuff the way you do.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Way
  • You
  • Care

• I'm impressed with how professional they are and what they can get an animal to do. I mean, dogs and cats - that's one thing. But when you get into the larger animals, that's a different thing all together.

  

  M. Emmet Walsh
  • Different
  • Together
  • Animal

• I grew up in a family that despised not only communism but collectivism, socialism, and any 'ism' that deprived the individual of his or her natural rights.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Up
  • Family
  • Socialism

• A story should, to please, at least seem true, Be apropos, well told, concise, and new: And whenso'er it deviates from these rules, The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.

  

  Benjamin Stillingfleet
  • Sleep
  • Wise
  • Story

• I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Vessel
  • Draft

• When my parents were dating, they were very poor, so my dad couldn't take my mom out. They would go to the grocery store and pick out funny looking vegetables. When I grew up, we'd still go and find the ones with personality.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Parents
  • Funny

• If I was to stop making music tomorrow doesn't mean suddenly there is this gap. You don't get elected. The people decide where you are. Whether I'm here or not, if they want you to be at the top then the people will move me out the way.

  

  Jay-Z
  • People
  • Music
  • Stop

• Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nobody

• When someone is in crisis, don't start by teaching, leveraging, or explaining. Just be with.

  

  John Ortberg