R. A. Torrey Quotes

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R. A. Torrey

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• I'm not an A student; I'm not even a B student, but I've gotten a lot better with the reading because of texts. And I can voice-text and say whatever I want to people.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Reading
  • Text

• I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.

  

  Sade Adu
  • People
  • Time
  • Shy

• We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • People
  • Working
  • Need

• Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.

  

  Laura Benanti
  • Together
  • Day
  • End

• More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
  • Future
  • Vision

• I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Worse

• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• The best time to release a film is on a festive date like Divali or Eid, or at a time when there are no big films three to four weeks before or after.

  

  Salman Khan
  • Time
  • Best
  • Three

• I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.

  

  Adam Peaty
  • Dark
  • Aggressive
  • Aggression

• I think the impulse took shape in early childhood when I was very ill with lymphoma for a number of years. I spent a lot of time in hospitals and sick-rooms, being read to by various relatives, and I learned to associate books with love and attention.

  

  Damon Galgut
  • Love
  • Think
  • Books

• I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • True
  • Help
  • Military

• If you fire people, you fire customers.

  

  Ferdinand Piech
  • People
  • Business
  • Fire

• You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.

  

  Hannah Murray
  • People
  • Good
  • Fun

• A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Women
  • She
  • Man

• Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Fate
  • Existence
  • Nothing

• The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Spring
  • Landscape
  • Awakening

• I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.

  

  Young Thug
  • Ghetto
  • Then
  • Mansions

• That was the thing about tragedy. It was just sitting there, keeping you company, waiting. And you had absolutely no idea.

  

  Kate DiCamillo
  • Waiting

• Grace is the overflowing favor of God, and you can always count on it being available to draw upon as needed.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Always
  • Grace

• When you look at something that's so extraordinary, like a man who is traveling back in time to prevent JFK's assassination, for me as an actor, you're still trying to seed it in some sort of reality.

  

  Sarah Gadon
  • Men
  • Trying
  • Reality

• God wants us to believe Him to be huge, even if we don't know what to believe Him for in a particular situation and circumstance. I can believe God to be God, to come and show Himself mighty and merciful in that situation, even if I don't really know biblically what I'm to ask Him for.

  

  Beth Moore
  • God
  • Believe

• The more wakeful a man is to the things which surround him, the more asleep is he, and his waking is worse than his sleep.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Man
  • Sleep
  • Worse

• Prayer can do anything that God can do.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • God
  • Christian
  • Prayer