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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You can no longer just be a good sailor. You have to be an incredible athlete as well. Having said that, you can be a great athlete, the strongest guy in the world, but if you can't anticipate and make decisions under stress and exhaustion and think ahead, then you won't be able to cut it, either.
James Spithill
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Our happiness relies more on hope, faith and our inner values than on anything outside ourselves.
Angela Burt-Murray
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I tried a robin heart once. It wasn't very good.
Emilia Clarke
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A lot of my peers don't think about collaborating the way I do. My approach is to imagine my world. The Jason Wu woman isn't just floating around in a beautiful dress. I like to know where she's going, what she likes. I'm not just in the fashion business. I'm in the lifestyle business.
Jason Wu
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I'd fired anyone who was involved with Creed. I didn't want anything to do with the music business. The entire press and industry hated me, so what was the point?
Scott Stapp
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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
