Vance Havner Quotes

An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.

Vance Havner

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• Life does not owe me a shred.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Life
  • Me
  • Owe

• I try to write about a woman finding her self-respect, valuing herself, and liking herself again. But what one desperately wants now is to write a proper novel.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Respect
  • Woman
  • Try

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I'm a stand-up. I'm never worried about getting my next role. That's never distressing to me.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Me
  • Never
  • Role

• We have 1.8 million Americans behind bars today at Local, State and Federal level. In the federal system, which has doubled in the last ten years, over 110,000 people behind bars in the Federal system, probably two-thirds are there for drug related reason.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • People
  • Today
  • Years

• There are a lot of eating disorders in our sport, so I try very hard not to get consumed by all that.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Try
  • Very
  • Eating

• A lot of people ask me what my mom has taught me about modeling. The truth is the things she teaches me go deeper than what pose to make or what my good side is.

  

  Kaia Gerber
  • People
  • Truth
  • Mom

• If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.

  

  Jack Lemmon
  • Want
  • Emotional
  • Audience

• It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • You
  • Simple
  • Faithful

• Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Kind
  • Joy
  • Happiness

• All fame is is having people you don't know coming up to you and saying, 'Hello.' I'm always polite and people are always nice, but it's weird.

  

  Karl Pilkington
  • People
  • Up
  • Nice

• The way people deal with me - they'll go overboard in trying to be politically correct and make a mess of it. Everyone's so worried about what they're saying to everyone else, that they don't talk very much.

  

  Warwick Davis
  • People
  • Trying
  • Saying

• The most important practical lesson that can be given to nurses is to teach them what to observe - how to observe - what symptoms indicate improvement - what the reverse - which are of importance - which are of none - which are the evidence of neglect - and of what kind of neglect.

  

  Florence Nightingale
  • Important
  • Kind
  • Improvement

• I think, though, that people will read into a reporter's story a bias that they want to see in a reporter.

  

  Garrett Graff
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• I fantasised about F. Scott Fitzgerald's 'The Great Gatsby' - I loved it, and then I read everything J. D. Salinger had to offer. Then I was turned on to Kerouac, and his spontaneous prose, his stream of consciousness way of writing. I admired him so much, and I romanticised so much about the '40s and '50s.

  

  Garrett Hedlund
  • Great
  • Writing
  • Loved

• I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • People
  • Live
  • Taken

• If I were really rich, I would be flying places, I think.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Think
  • Rich
  • Flying

• I was very intensely concerned with all kinds of new media.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • New
  • Media
  • Very

• For me, the driving force is the audience, and the day that stops, I will stop doing films. The day a part of me stops feeling like putting a smile on someone else's face or if I feel like I don't want to entertain anymore, then I will pack up and leave.

  

  Varun Dhawan
  • Up
  • Feeling
  • Stop

• Sometimes your eyes are not the only place the tears fall from.

  

  Faraaz Kazi
  • Eyes
  • Fall
  • Eye

• Wherever capitalism appears, in pursuit of its mission of exploitation, there will Socialism, fertilized by misery, watered by tears, and vitalized by agitation be also found, unfurling its class-struggle banner and proclaiming its mission of emancipation.

  

  Eugene V. Debs
  • Tears
  • Capitalism
  • Socialism

• It is very difficult also to sacrifice one's suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.

  

  G. I. Gurdjieff
  • Up
  • Men
  • Suffering

• An old minister explained the smudges on his sermon outlines by saying they were caused by sweat and tears. And without those two marks, a sermon is not a sermon.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Tears