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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Never diss somebody’s mum, never play chess with the Kurdish mafia, and never lie down with a woman who’s more magical than you are.
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I believe that if it were possible to scrap the whole of existing literature, all writers would find themselves inevitably producing something very close to SF ... No other form of fiction has the vocabulary of ideas and images to deal with the present, let alone the future.
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I don't believe in God. I do believe in Judaism. I believe in ethics, morals.
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People aren't taking their time with the music no more. There's less quality in the records.
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For a married woman to flirt is a sin.
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Plenty of church members are shaky about what they believe, while not many are shaken by what they believe.
