Vance Havner Quotes
If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
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I just like music that I can relate to, something to listen to in my car.
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Life isn't about quantity, it's about quality.
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The heavier crop is ever in others' fields.
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I do have the personnel that we use in the back of my head when I'm working, but I also don't want to limit myself.
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I was made fun of a lot in middle school. When I was in seventh grade, the popular kids paid the most popular guy to ask me out.
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I did almost a year in prison, a year in prison, just because my name is Foxy Brown.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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You succeed and accomplish and accomplish; the problem is when you stop, you become depressed because you could never do enough.
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People disparage knowing and the intellectual life, and urge doing. I am content with knowing, if only I could know.
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It's a funny thing, the less people have to live for, the less nerve they have to risk losing nothing.
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Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from an indomitable will.
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Democracies domesticate religious groups to become political players. That's how it works.
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Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
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We can become anyone we want to become. It takes focusing on the aspect of ourselves we want to change and reflecting on the beliefs that cause us to act in ways that are counter to the change we seek.
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All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
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The last thing I want my child to see is Dad running around in the middle of the pack. That would really upset me. And that would upset him. I would be embarrassed to take him to school with kids saying, 'Hey, how'd your dad do this weekend?' 'Well, he finished fifth or sixth'.
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You never know when a moment and a few sincere words can have an impact on a life.
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I call for greater measures to involve more women at higher levels in mine action. Governments should do more to address gender in their mine action programmes and through their implementation of the Anti-personnel Mine Ban Convention.
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I would never think of crying about any loss of an office, because that's always a possibility, and if you're professional, then you deal with it professionally.
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It is sometimes useful to pretend we are deceived, because when we show a deceiving man that we see through his artifices, we only encourage him to increase his deceptions.
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What I think about you, I will not be able to escape thinking about myself, and what I do to you, I will not be able to escape experiencing myself.
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I feel very privileged that I get to spend my life telling stories that mean something to people.
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Anybody who was a politician at one stage - when they were at the "I'd like to be a train driver" stage of their lives - must also have thought: "I'd like to make the world a better place if possible." So, I think that's why most politicians go into it. They don't want to take over the world and most go into it for good reasons and then, presumably, are beset by endless things stopping them from following their natural inclination to do the right thing.
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If you would try out a preacher, send him to preach to farmers: if he cannot make the grade there, let him reconsider his call - or maybe he needs to be converted.
