S. D Gordon Quotes

One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

S. D Gordon

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• If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.

  

  Samuel J. Palmisano
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• When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.

  

  Abby Wambach
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• Network TV is such a difficult, competitive landscape.

  

  Ed Weeks
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• Let me live in a house by the side of the road and be a friend to man.

  

  Sam Walter Foss
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• Well, I can't figure out God.

  

  Oral Roberts
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• It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
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• My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

  

  Salma Hayek
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• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
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  • Family
  • Day

• The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

  

  Beck
  • Home
  • Year
  • Keep Going

• It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Hope
  • Student
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• Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.

  

  Abby Wambach
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  • World
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• Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
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• For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
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  • Word

• Everyone thinks chemistry and alchemy are so similar, but they’re really not. They’re not even related. They just happen to live in the same house.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
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  • House

• In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
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• Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

  

  Bertrand Russell
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• Everyday rape incidents are being highlighted as if the entire state has become the land of rapists. Rape is sought to be glorified by these people. This will not be tolerated by people. I would like to say that negative journalism only destroys and it is time to champion positive journalism.

  

  Mamata Banerjee
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  • Time
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• The bodies of which the world is composed are solids, and therefore have three dimensions. Now, three is the most perfect number,-it is the first of numbers, for of one we do not speak as a number, of two we say both, but three is the first number of which we say all. Moreover, it has a beginning, a middle, and an end.

  

  Aristotle
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  • Beginning

• I carry earplugs and use them even when it's quiet.

  

  Max Apple

• If we can rebuild Iraq, we can rebuild Illinois and Indiana and if we can do Baghdad, we can do Baltimore.

  

  Carol Moseley Braun
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  • Baltimore
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• Let us resolve by God's grace, that however poor and feeble our prayers may seem to be, we will pray on.

  

  J. C. Ryle
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  • May
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• Prayer is not a monologue. It speaks to God and to the community. In the last analysis, religion is not what goes on inside a soul. It is what goes on in the world, between people, between us and God. To trap faith in a monologue, and pretend that it resides solely inside the self, undermines the true interchange of all belief.

  

  David Wolpe
  • People
  • Community
  • Prayer

• That has always been a strength of Haiti: Beyond crisis, it has beautiful art; it has beautiful music. But people have not heard about those as much as they heard about the coups and so forth. I always hope that the people who read me will want to learn more about Haiti.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
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  • Music
  • Art

• One should never initiate anything that he cannot saturate with prayer.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • Prayer