John Owen Quotes
Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
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Drink lots of water and stay hydrated.
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It's never as easy to keep your own spouse happy as it is to make someone else's spouse happy.
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Attraction doesn't stop when a child is born. It's the opposite. Being a mum and dad makes you even sexier.
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When I was writing pretty poor poetry, this girl with midnight black hair told me to go on.
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I feel like God gave me the ability to play a game. I try to take it very seriously. I realize it's just a game.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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I'm sure my father had more to do with my career than I would like to give him credit for. I would love to think it was all me!
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The two most frightening words in Washington are 'bipartisan consensus.' Bipartisan consensus is when my doctor and my lawyer agree with my wife that I need help.
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I don't like people waiting on me. I feel it is an unnecessary expense.
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I played violin and got into that Suzuki program in the second grade.
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Most of the most important experiences that truly educate cannot be arranged ahead of time with any precision.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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I think the reaction to a World War II situation would be the same today as it was in 1942. Initially, people would question, but once patriotism got stirred up, the whole thing would gather momentum and we'd all pull together.
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I enjoy meat, but I can do without it.
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It's possible to look really cute and still be comfortable. You don't have to kill your feet to have a fashionable look.
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Luck is not something you can mention in the presence of self-made men.
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Your body thinks radium is a great thing to pack into bone - where it kills some cells outright and scrambles the DNA of others, causing problems like cancer.
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The magic words 'on the Internet,' if inserted into nearly any sentence, seem to protect it from normal critical scrutiny.
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I find Los Angeles to be a place of great physical beauty, in which you have the oceans and the mountains, and there's a vertical sense and a desert light that you can see forever.
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I'm originally from Fort Lauderdale: that's my home town in Florida. So when I'm on location, I just get the packets from schools in Florida. And when I go to Florida, I go to Christ Church School.
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They're innocent movies, and they're fun movies and there were no pretensions about 'em.
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In scientific thought, the concept functions all the better for being cut off from all background images. In its full exercise, the scientific concept is free from all the delays of its genetic evolution, an evolution which is consequently explained by simple psychology. The virility of knowledge increases with each conquest of the constructive abstraction.
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After I go out this door, I may only exist in the minds of all my acquaintances…I may be an orange peel.
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Temptation is like a knife, that may either cut the meat or the throat of a man; it may be his food or his poison, his exercise or his destruction.
