Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes

Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

Joni Eareckson Tada

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• Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.

  

  Wally Schirra
  • Up
  • Days
  • Breaking

• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Amazing
  • Holmes
  • Katie

• In San Francisco, I found Warren Levinson, who had set up a program to study Rous Sarcoma Virus, an archetype for what we now call retroviruses. At the time, the replication of retroviruses was one of the great puzzles of animal virology. Levinson, Levintow and I joined forces in the hope of solving that puzzle.

  

  J. Michael Bishop
  • Up
  • Time
  • Great

• If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Want
  • Self

• Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Women
  • Children
  • Help

• I had always been feeling uncomfortable in my mind about giving advice to others and not acting upon it myself.

  

  Lal Bahadur Shastri
  • Mind
  • Giving
  • Feeling

• Men, women, and children who cannot live on gravity alone need something to satisfy their gayer, lighter moods and hours, and he who ministers to this want is, in my opinion, in a business established by the Creator of our nature. If he worthily fulfills his mission and amuses without corrupting, he need never feel that he has lived in vain.

  

  P. T. Barnum
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • World
  • May
  • End

• Most recently, I learned another hobby: baking. It's so much fun to mix all the ingredients and to see the cake come out nice. It's so rewarding when the cake comes out great and tastes great.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Nice

• One-year-olds learn concealment. Five-year-olds lie outright: they manipulate via flattery. Nine-year-olds - masters of the cover-up. By the time you enter college, you're going to lie to your mom in one out of every five interactions.

  

  Pamela Meyer
  • Up
  • Time
  • College

• I, for one, am actually still incredibly idealistic, and I still can credibly or very strongly believe that you have to keep fighting for what you believe in, because it's only when you stop that you've truly lost.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Believe
  • Lost
  • Stop

• I love the scent of jasmine, honeysuckle, and orange blossom. They remind me of gardens and visits to the ocean I would make as a boy.

  

  Narciso Rodriguez
  • Ocean
  • Remind
  • Blossom

• The whole intent of Perl 5's module system was to encourage the growth of Perl culture rather than the Perl core.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Culture
  • Growth

• For a 6-foot-3 guy with no hair and a whiny voice, I've done all right.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Hair

• You seem to have dreamt on the white stone, in the midst of the people of dreams, since you dreamt so long a dream in the course of so short a night.

  

  Anatole France
  • People
  • Long
  • Dream

• When my mother signed at MGM, that was the only kind of contract you could sign. There was no such thing as an independent agent.

  

  Lorna Luft
  • Mother
  • Independent

• In order to be responsible, you need some discipline in your life. For a while I lost mine.

  

  Donatella Versace
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Discipline

• While they are kids, my children must do as I say.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • Children
  • Kids

• I really envy, in some respects, some of the people of faith I've known - A.J.Muste, for example.

  

  Nat Hentoff
  • People
  • Faith
  • Respects

• Psycholog­y is in its infancy, as a science. I hope in the interests of Art, it will always remain so.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Hope
  • Science
  • Psychology

• I'm from England, and like every other great empire who stole bits of the world, there is a price to pay. And I was born in 1935. So, since I've been conscious of the world, I've either been in, or been on the periphery of, a war zone.

  

  Don McCullin
  • World
  • Great
  • War

• The rate of investment – the speed at which investors wish to increase the capital stock – should be related, if to anything, to q, the value of capital relative to its replacement cost.

  

  James Tobin
  • Wish
  • Value
  • Stock

• Suffering provides the gym equipment on which my faith can be exercised.

  

  Joni Eareckson Tada
  • Faith
  • Suffering
  • Gym