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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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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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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All pitchers are liars or crybabies.
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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 distresses me that parents insist that their children read or make them read. The best way for children to treasure reading is to see the adults in their lives reading for their own pleasure.
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The epic poet collaborates with the spirit of his time in the composition of his work. That is, if he is successful; the time may refuse to work with him, but he may not refuse to work with his time.
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I enjoyed doing the gag covers better than the story ones because they were usually simpler. A cover based on an incident in the plot took a great deal of staging to tell a little story that was still part of the book. And it had to make sense on its own.
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Refusing to ask for help when you need it is refusing someone the chance to be helpful.
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What this means is that we shouldn't abbreviate the truth but rather get a new method of presentation.
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For every hero, there has to be a fall guy, and the greater the triumph on one hand, the greater the humiliation on the other.
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I want the belt. Always.
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On Halloween, because we don't celebrate it, my dad would drive me somewhere, anywhere different. Like Little Italy in New York to walk around and teach me all about the food and culture.
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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.
