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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I think JR would make a better President than the one we have now.
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The threat from radical Islam is real.
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There needs to be some standards around launching an ICO and investing in ICOs in the space, and I caution all to tread carefully until those standards emerge.
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A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.
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However, I believe that it would be difficult to have legitimate scientists agree to participate.
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
