Vance Havner Quotes
It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
Vance Havner
Quotes to Explore
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I read as much poetry as time allows and circumstance dictates: No heartache can pass without a little Dorothy Parker, no thunderstorm without W. H. Auden, no sleepless night without W. B. Yeats.
J. Courtney Sullivan
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I never thought, when I was a kid, that there was a sense of competition or animosity towards poor blacks. I just thought there was a recognition that they lived differently - they primarily lived on the other side of town. And we're both poor, but that's kind of it. There wasn't much explicit statement of kinship or of the lack of kinship.
J. D. Vance
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Love rules the court, the camp, the grove, And men below, and saints above: For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
Walter Scott
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What I love about the sci-fi community is that it's the most nonjudgmental, inclusive, diverse environment in the country. There's no group of people that is more diverse and inclusive.
J. August Richards
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In a movie, you have to be mindful that no budget is going to be able to deal with running around the globe at every whim of the writer.
Daniel Clowes
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It's a very good historical book about history.
Dan Quayle
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I'm working on a bunch of things with my daughter Emily. In some ways, she's a smarter and better editor than I am.
Patricia MacLachlan
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Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.
Nancy Farmer
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I knew I wanted considerable education so that I wouldn't have to work as hard as my parents.
Ferid Murad
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People with a lot of money aren't in the business of throwing it away, and those paying footballers' wages, organising parking spaces for dead sharks, and even, dare I say it, buying iPads, are doing it because, for them, it's worth the money.
Ian Watson
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I live in a small world of gouache and brush and pen and ink. I'd like to explore the world of multiples - etching and prints.
Maira Kalman
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
Edmund Phelps
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In 'The Plato Papers' I wanted to get another perspective on the present moment by extrapolating into the distant future. So in that sense, there's a definite similarity of purpose between a book set in the future and a book set in the past.
Peter Ackroyd
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When you are in business for a long time, you go through good times and bad times. When you go through bad times, you learn to control costs, satisfy customers better, satisfy employees better and become more transparent. Therefore, you build character in the company.
N. R. Narayana Murthy
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Every award I've ever received has been very gratifying. The Living Legend Award was extremely gratifying; it was voted on by the fans. It's just great to be remembered after all these years, to still be a viable part of the music business. So, I'm very deeply honored by all the awards.
Charlie Daniels
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It is not our business to make the message acceptable, but to make it available. We are not to see that they like it, but that they get it.
Vance Havner
