Vance Havner Quotes
Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.
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Many a man owes his advancement very largely to his ability to converse well. The ability to interest people in your conversation, to hold them, is a great power.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I think the market should reward banks that have been transparent in recognising their problems. I think the tendency of banks to hide the problem assets over a period of three or four years should not be allowed.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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Chanting was very deep for me. It was as if I remembered it. It was like a real surrender.
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How extraordinary it is that one feels most guilt about the sins one is unable to commit.
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I think that characters who are nice all the time and who you sympathize with can get really boring.
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I cook more theoretically than I do practically. My job is creative, and in the kitchen, the biggest part of my creativity is theoretical.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Being published is a bit like being entered into a race you don't even want to run, but, once running, can't help but not want to lose.
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I connect with people on a daily basis.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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I simply believe that people who respect their customers and have faith in their own technology products should welcome competition and that consumer choice should be a paramount value in retailing.
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I was kind of lost for several years.
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If you look at the market cap increase in Apple since it created the iPod versus what's happened to the music industry, you have to say Apple got the better part of that deal.
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I had to learn not to let anyone push me around, to be brave and to say things I knew might make people mad.
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It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.
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Everyday - it's a gettin' closer,Goin' faster than a roller coaster.Love like yours will surely come my wayA hey - a hey hey.
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I love everything about the holidays: the decorations, the parties, and spending time with friends and family. What I love most is that feeling of giving back. Every bit counts.
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Being a mother is no longer a liability, and being a woman is no longer a pre-existing condition! That's what change looks like.
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For 'tis a truth well known to most, That whatsoever thing is lost, We seek it, ere it comes to light, In every cranny but the right.
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A good storyteller never lets the facts get in the way.
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Make Jesus Christ your theme! I have seen preachers espouse causes and champion movements, and when the cause died and the movement collapsed, the preacher vanished too. But the man who glories in Christ never grows stale.
