Ole Hallesby Quotes

Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

Ole Hallesby

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• Most women's pictures are as boring and as formulaic as men's pictures. In place of a car chase or a battle scene, what you get is an extreme closeup of a woman breaking down.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Men
  • Women
  • Car

• It's time to bring a change because the world is changing. Let's open our minds and live in present.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • Time
  • World
  • Live

• You know, something happened to me when I became 70. I started to feel a tremendous love for the human race, and life and this planet, the universe, the whole shebang.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Life
  • Love
  • Universe

• I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.

  

  Dan Rather
  • Work
  • Live
  • Dream

• I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.

  

  Madison Pettis
  • Work
  • Movies
  • Normal

• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Path
  • Choose
  • Privilege

• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• It's really important to find something you really enjoy - something you can focus on and be good at.

  

  Mackenzie Rosman
  • Good
  • Important
  • Focus

• It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Evil
  • Explain
  • Abhorrent

• There is more difference in the quality of our pleasures than in the amount.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Quality
  • Difference
  • More

• There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • People
  • Word
  • Interview

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Spiritual
  • Wonder
  • Practice

• Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Up
  • Place
  • Need

• I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Party
  • Everyone
  • Table

• Growth doesn't hurt. This is what I've learned. In the end, it doesn't hurt. It hurts while it's happening. But in the end, you know, for life, for parenting, and for the arts, it's not a bad - not a bad thing to try for.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Hurt

• I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Believe
  • Body
  • View

• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

  Carl Honore
  • Time
  • Money
  • Experience

• Unless you have a perception of who you are as a lawyer, you will never be at ease in dealing with legal matters, clients, or courts. But if you know who you are and why you're there, all you need is the expertise and the information.

  

  Samuel Dash
  • Why
  • Perception
  • Lawyer

• The top two for me are Spotlight and The Revenant movies. Everything says The Revenant, but Spotlight is special. I think this movie would have been a lot more jumpy and fast-faced if anyone else had done it. This movie is very unassuming in how powerful it is. It very calmly, and very cooly, eats you up inside. I think if there's anything that will upset the Revenant run, it's gonna be Spotlight.

  

  Bun B
  • Sportlight
  • The Revenant movies

• I think that any woman who had a conversation with me and had an opportunity to truly understand my life story wouldn't view it through a critical lens. There are people, of course, in the world of politics, who look for things to be critical about. But those people are already against you.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favour progress, provided they can have it without change.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • People
  • Pain
  • Progress

• I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own preoccupations, and if I'm bringing any political awareness to that process, that mitigates my freedom.

  

  Ayad Akhtar
  • Free
  • Political
  • Freedom

• Carol James, who is my physician's assistant and my right-hand person, frequently teases me by saying, 'It's because women need only half of their brain to think as well as men. That's why you can do this operation on so many women.'

  

  Ben Carson
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Prayer is the conduit through which power from heaven is brought to earth.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Heaven