Vance Havner Quotes

Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.

Vance Havner

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• My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.

  

  Natalie Maines
  • Writing
  • She
  • Texas

• You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • School
  • Yourself
  • Hollywood

• You can't judge your characters or otherwise; it's not about you, it's about them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • You
  • Judge
  • Them

• I've played in Boston and New York, and it doesn't matter if you're sick, aching - once you step on that field, you're a completely different animal.

  

  Vernon Wells
  • Different
  • Animal
  • Sick

• Russia can be quite a dangerous place sometimes, but I never think about it.

  

  Marc Almond Soft Cell
  • Think
  • Sometimes
  • Never

• Go to the young conductors who are not making it, and you will hear how we shouldn't push ourselves or sell ourselves, how they don't have the right connections and the right opportunities. Well, you can be sure they've had the opportunities.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Opportunities
  • Connections

• When we don't have all the details about our characters, we have to make it up to fill in all the details. So, for me, writing and acting go hand in hand.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Hand

• I didn't come from the elites. I didn't come from the Northeast or from San Francisco. I came from a southern Ohio steel town, and it's a town that's really struggling in a lot of ways, ways that are indicative of the broader struggles of America's working class.

  

  J. D. Vance
  • America
  • Working
  • Class

• The value of 'Made in Italy' must necessarily be up-to-date. This is the philosophy that Italia Independent has embraced. We decided from the outset to do away with stereotypes and attune ourselves to the extreme pace, to the incessant metamorphoses of the globalized world.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Up
  • World
  • Value

• Don't say anything online that you wouldn't want your mother to read.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Mother
  • Want
  • You

• I always work with 18 friends.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Always

• It is not about money. It is about how you treat the player.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Money
  • You
  • Player

• I'm supporting the School for Creative Startups because the project's ambition - to boost innovation and the culture of entrepreneurship - is something I feel strongly about.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • School
  • Culture
  • Ambition

• I didn't spend a lot of time with prison guards, but my father was an assistant district attorney for a long time so I was always hearing stories about prisoners and prison guards.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Father

• I'm fulfilling my dreams that I had as a kid every single day. That's why I'm trying to enjoy it so much.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Trying
  • Why
  • Single

• You might not be able to control your circumstances, but you can control your response to your circumstances.

  

  Foster Friess
  • You
  • Control
  • Circumstances

• Music was my one way to vent.

  

  Becky G
  • Music
  • Way
  • Vent

• Guns are the ultimate bulwark against government misbehavior.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Government
  • Ultimate
  • Guns

• I remember the ache I used to feel when she got too close, how it felt like grief, how it felt like a loss, like I was falling, falling into nothing, how it clenched me up and made me want to weep, made me actually weep.

  

  Patrick Ness
  • Up
  • She
  • Remember

• I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the greatest improvement of the soul.

  

  Socrates
  • Soul
  • Young
  • Old

• Grub first, then ethics.

  

  Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht
  • Ethics

• We need to find secular ways to cultivate warm-heartedness. We need secular ways to educate ourselves about inner values. The source of a happy life is within us. Trouble makers in many parts of the world are often quite well educated, so it is not just education that we need. We need to pay attention to inner values.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • World
  • Happy

• From barbarism to civilization requires a century; from civilization to barbarism needs but a day.

  

  Will Durant
  • Needs
  • Civilization
  • Barbarism

• Nobody in pulpit or pew needs a revival more than a bitter-spirited fundamentalist with his dispensations right and his disposition wrong.

  

  Vance Havner
  • Needs
  • Bitter
  • Revival