Vance Havner Quotes
Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
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If I asked for a cup of coffee, someone would search for the double meaning.
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Going to bed can cause imaginary conversations you should have had with certain people or real conversations with your brother who is calling from a bar in a different time zone.
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I think I'm a critic of corporate power, whether locally or globally. And the term 'globalization' I've never found all that helpful.
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Work hard. Laugh when you feel like crying. Keep an open mind, open eyes and an open spirit.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence.
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Sometimes one creates a dynamic impression by saying something, and sometimes one creates as significant an impression by remaining silent.
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Energy is a concept that has been coined by physicists. There is no observable thing known as energy anywhere.
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Skating is tough to pick up when you are a grown up.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Rock will never be dead for me. Do I like a lot of what I hear on rock music radio? No, not for the most part. I'm not a fan of the regurgitated Pearl Jam and Nickelback crap that's the biggest thing in the Midwest. There isn't that big of a market for rock anymore. Every once in a while something happens and you like it.
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You start thinking about a character in a new book, of course you're going to think pretty soon, 'Well, what's their secret? What is their problem?' Maybe, 'What is their secret?' is another way of saying, 'What is their problem?' There's got to be some issue, or you've got a totally boring book!
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The local music community here was dying for a place to record, so we started doing acoustic, folk and bluegrass and then did rock projects for other bands, as well as for my son Tal and my own work.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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Often something more simple would be better. Sometimes I put things together - a shirt, a sweater, a jacket - and it's too complicated. I would have worn only a v-neck sweater, it would have been better. It's not the clothes but it's how you wear them sometimes.
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Life is a series of steps. Things are done gradually. Once in a while there is a giant step, but most of the time we are taking small, seemingly insignificant steps on the stairway of life.
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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The rainy Pleiads wester,Orion plunges prone,The stroke of midnight ceases,And I lie down alone.
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Never compromise yourself.
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The labor of the alchemists, who were called artist in their day, is a befitting comparison for a deliberate change of style.
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Every minute counts. Being on time or not can mean the difference of a win or a loss and even of something positive or negative happening in life.
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
