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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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 still get called 'a stick of dynamite' or 'pint-sized dynamo,' stuff like that. Actually, I was too busy to notice there was anything unusual about being a woman director until the early 1980s, when I looked around the professional theater and realized there weren't many of us. You have to make more of a case for yourself than any man.
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Men's competitive team sports focus on the balance between individual achievement and team achievement with the emphasis on team achievement.
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I'm one of those people at the airport holding a pillow like a little kid.
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Reason cannot calm the storm of emotion, and emotion usually wins, until it settles down and allows reason to rise again and apologize on behalf of it.
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The truth is most women are weak, be they mortal or immortal. But when they are strong, they are absolutely unpredictable.
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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.
