Vance Havner Quotes

The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

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• I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Time
  • American
  • Woman

• I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Time
  • Know
  • New

• Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.

  

  Dana Hussein
  • Life
  • Security
  • Sport

• Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Thoughts
  • Blind
  • Content

• It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.

  

  Eddie Money
  • Important
  • You
  • Community

• I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.

  

  Cameron Dallas
  • People
  • Me
  • Travel

• I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • People
  • Heart
  • Read

• If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • Work
  • Great
  • Career

• I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.

  

  Lana Parrilla
  • Girl
  • Funny
  • Day

• We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Rest
  • Body
  • Enough

• Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Up
  • Death

• Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Guy
  • Amazing
  • Just

• If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.

  

  Mahalia Jackson
  • God
  • Believe
  • Faith

• If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Accountability
  • Trash
  • Predictions

• Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.

  

  Rachel Miner
  • Believe
  • Live
  • Real

• In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.

  

  Abbie Cornish
  • Life
  • Real
  • Pretty

• Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Arts
  • Island
  • Puerto Rico

• The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Defeated

• Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• One day, the Devil decided to go out of business. His tools, therefore, being for sale, were put on display; and Malice, Jealousy, and Pride were soon recognized by most of his prospective customers. There was one worn, tiny wedge-shaped tool bearing the highest price, however, which seemed difficult to identify. "What is that?" someone asked. "I can't quite place it." "Oh that!" Satan answered. "That is Discouragement. It is my most valuable tool. With it I can open many hearts, since so few people know that it belongs to me."

  

  James Keller
  • Business
  • Devil
  • Customers

• You tax Mexico? The president of the United States is going to tax Mexico to get a wall for the United States of America? I'm pointing out the absurdity of a lot of these comments.

  

  Dana Perino
  • America
  • You
  • Wall

• The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Devil
  • Him
  • Prepare