J. G. Holland Quotes

Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

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• So I think that our foreign policy, the president's strong and principled leadership when it comes to the war against terror and foreign policy is going to be an asset.

  

  Ed Gillespie
  • War
  • Strong
  • Leadership

• Music will always be my greatest passion.

  

  Vanessa Mae
  • Music
  • Passion
  • Greatest

• People just don't sit down and watch shows live anymore. They DVR it. They stream it; they watch it on Netflix or iTunes.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • People
  • Live
  • Down

• A mortgage transaction is very complex, very complicated, and very localized - the rules are not just by state but by county, sometimes even by municipality.

  

  Dan Gilbert
  • Sometimes
  • Rules
  • Mortgage

• It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • May
  • Cold
  • Friendship

• Brittany Murphy... who knows if she's going to be around. Kirsten Dunst, I think she's really boring. Reese Witherspoon? She can open a movie.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • She
  • Movie
  • Think

• Self esteem is the reputation we acquire with ourselves.

  

  Nathaniel Branden
  • Self
  • Reputation
  • Ourselves

• If my daughter has a bad dream and wants to get into my bed, I'm a sucker for her sweet face and warm body next to mine, so I let her jump in. I should tell her to go to bed, but secretly I love it.

  

  Lara Spencer
  • Love
  • Bad
  • Dream

• Emotions should be real; one shouldn't come across as acting.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Real
  • Acting
  • Emotions

• We do not have to accept the world as we find it. And we have a responsibility to leave our world a better place and never walk by on the other side of injustice.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • World
  • Responsibility
  • Walk

• In nature there are few sharp lines.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • Nature
  • Lines
  • Sharp

• The ultimate mystery is one's own self.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Self
  • Mystery
  • Ultimate

• I have to do something with my mind, or I'll get in trouble.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Mind
  • Trouble
  • Something

• I just think old old movies, they make you concentrate and pay attention so much more. They feel so warm. A lot of modern digital videotape, it's just too bright. Don't know why, it's not warm.

  

  Jack White The White Stripes
  • Why
  • Think
  • Attention

• Man, he could sell. As he liked to say, he lived at the intersection of technology and liberal arts. But there was a more personal side of Steve Jobs, of course, and I was fortunate enough to see a bit of it because I spent hours in conversation with him over the 14 years he ran Apple.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Man
  • Technology
  • Apple

• When all is said and done the only thing you'll have left is your character.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Done
  • Character
  • Said

• I had just had small parts in other films, and I'd worked with a lot of directors in TV.

  

  Sally Kellerman
  • Small
  • Just
  • Other

• I want to hang out with my friends. I want to hang out with my family - well, I sometimes want to hang out with my family!

  

  Dakota Johnson
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Want

• We in Ghana, are committed to the building of an industrialized socialist society.  We cannot afford to sit still and be mere passive onlookers.  We must ourselves take part in the pursuit of scientific and technological research as a means of providing the basis for our socialist society, Socialism without science is void. …

  

  Kwame Nkrumah
  • Society
  • Science

• Are you learning to say things after listening to God, or are you saying things and trying to make God's word fit in?

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Trying
  • Learning

• I should feel the air move against me, and feel the things I touched, instead of having only to look at them. I'm sure life is all wrong because it has become much too visual - we can neither hear nor feel nor understand, we can only see. I'm sure that is entirely wrong.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Air

• The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Men

• Blessed is that man who knows his own distaff and has found his own spindle.

  

  J. G. Holland
  • Men
  • Blessed
  • Found