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.'
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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 find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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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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We'll free every slave in every town and region. Can anybody get a bigger army than that?
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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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Sarah Corvus in 'Bionic Woman' was one of my favorite characters I've ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in 'Sexy Evil Genius.' I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.
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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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Follow me if I advance! Kill me if I retreat! Revenge me if I die!
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I'm sort of half-Chilean at this point anyway, half-Argentine. This is where I have been living and working for a long time now.
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We had rising student achievement across the board because high standards, robust accountability, ending social promotion in third grade, real school choice across the board, challenging the teachers union and beating them is the way to go.
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North Korea is not irrational, and nothing shows this better than its continuing survival against all odds. North Korea is essentially a political living fossil, a relic of an era long gone.
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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.'
