Vance Havner Quotes
Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.Vance Havner
Quotes to Explore
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
J. J. Watt -
When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
Youssou N'Dour -
One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
H. G. Wells -
Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
Ted Rall -
I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
Rafael dos Anjos -
Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
Edmund White
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
Victor LaValle -
When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
Patrick Demarchelier -
Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
Vince Staples -
I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
Zinedine Zidane -
Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
Samantha Bond -
Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
Federico Garcia Lorca
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
Ted Williams -
I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
Felicia Day -
In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
Olga Kurylenko -
I'd like to be curvier.
Cara Delevingne -
I want people to learn what democracy means.
Jack Ma -
At a person-to-person level, I think that there's always something to be said for having some empathy for the folks who really, really disagree with you about a given topic.
J. D. Vance
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I grew up with the 'Star Wars' movies since before I have many memories. We had them on VHS back in the day, so they were part of the fabric of growing up in my family.
Ian Doescher -
I have seen landscapes . . . which, under a particular light, make me feel that at any moment a giant might raise his head over the next ridge.
C. S. Lewis -
I'm not really an autobiographical writer, though I use lots of stuff from my life to make my stories seem real. But when I actually write about myself, I get very confused.
Jeffrey Eugenides -
Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
Vance Havner