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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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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Those of us who are blessed, we owe it to our fellow citizens and folks who we are around to do something special for them.
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Comedians are always hitting the topical notes that are on everybody's minds.
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I was thinking on the rollers today that, before a race, if I could just pick my brain up and put it on the side of the track for four minutes, it would be perfect.
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The maxims for success laid out by the powerful are never much good as guides for those who aren't powerful.
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It is very important for me to be taken seriously for my science and not for my looks or other personal accomplishments.
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There is no real reason to fail a child," "Once children start failing, they begin to believe that they can't do anything. They give up.
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The most positive men are the most credulous…
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I'm an actor. 99.9% of all actors in the world have been in denial towards the military.
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
