John Wesley Quotes

I am always in haste, but never in a hurry.

John Wesley

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• The American people deserve a budget that invests in the future, protects the most vulnerable among us and helps to create jobs and economic security.

  

  Carl Levin
  • People
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  • Future

• The best revenge is to live on and prove yourself.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Live
  • Best
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• Don't ever forget two things I'm going to tell you. One, don't believe everything that's written about you. Two, don't pick up too many checks.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • Up
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• I've been writing fiction probably since I was about 6 years old, so it's something that is second nature to me now. I just sit down and start writing. I don't sit down and start writing and it comes out perfectly - it's a process.

  

  Candace Bushnell
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• I hate chilling. I hate even the notion of chilling. I like doing stuff.

  

  Jack Lowden
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• Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Up
  • Nothing
  • Praise

• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
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  • Kids

• It's true: I don't remember what life was like before parenthood.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Life
  • Remember
  • True

• I like the guys who wrote their own stuff and were able to perform it, like Seth Rogen. He popped off so young. When he did 'The 40-Year-Old Virgin,' and he was a co-producer on the movie, I was like, 'Oh my God: that's exactly what I want to do.'

  

  Adam DeVine
  • God
  • Movie
  • Want

• For a person who promised hope and civility in politics, Mr. Obama has shown a borderline obsessiveness in blaming Mr. Bush.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Hope
  • Person
  • Politics

• As an industrial designer, you design the thing by yourself, and then it goes away from you, whereas fashion is in constant relation to the body and to psychology. It makes it more complicated, and it makes it more challenging.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Fashion
  • Design
  • Yourself

• Goal setting will never stop. I will continue to work hard and practice hard and see where things go.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Work
  • Stop
  • Practice

• I listen to National Public Radio, which, to me at least, presents the most rounded view of things.

  

  Ed Harris
  • Things
  • Public
  • Radio

• History may be divided into three movements: what moves rapidly, what moves slowly and what appears not to move at all.

  

  Fernand Braudel
  • May
  • History
  • Three

• When I was eleven, I got cast in the last directorial project of Christopher Reeve.

  

  Vanessa Marano
  • Project
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• My gut feelings and my faith tell me that until God shuts a door, no human can shut it.

  Olusegun Obasanjo
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• We may have forgotten how to feel. Nobody is teaching us how to live happily ever after, as we've heard in fairy tales.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Live
  • May
  • Teacher

• You don't often see Bear Grylls in a suit.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • You
  • Bear
  • Often

• To be sure, no piece of social machinery, however well constructed, can be effective unless there is back of it a will and a determination to make it work.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • Work
  • Determination
  • Piece

• By suggestion and example, I believe children can be helped to hear the many voices about them. Take Time to listen and talk about the voices of the earth and what they mean-the majestic voice of thunder, the winds, the sound of surf or flowing streams.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Children

• The way the media cycle works, the way the news works, and the way people's attention span works, is that we only learn that people exist when there is crisis.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • People
  • Way
  • Attention

• Nothing, for the most part, surprises me anymore.

  

  Brett Favre

• Mastery of yoga is really measured by how it influences our day-to-day living, how it enhances our relationships, how it promotes clarity and peace of mind.

  

  Tirumalai Krishnamacharya Venkata Desikachar
  • Mind
  • Peace
  • Yoga

• I am always in haste, but never in a hurry.

  

  John Wesley