Vance Havner Quotes
Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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I certainly support civil unions.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.
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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
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I'm ridiculous to feel ridiculous when I'm not. You must be laughing at me for feeling you are laughing at me if you are not laughing at me.
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I don't really trust a sane person.
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It was immigration that taught us, it does not matter where you came from, or who your parents were. What counts is who you are.
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My philosophy is to always find the smartest people you can. Hire people smarter than you.
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The jungle is life itself. A thousand times more alive than anything you've ever seen. We didn't go there to be a part of it. We invaded it. We shaved the jungle and made a stinking camp in the middle of it. Radios blaring. It was disgusting.
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Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
