Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

They are inherently good - the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil - but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

Norman Vincent Peale

• Circumstances
• Human being
• Child Of God

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• I had no intention of becoming a performer, and yet under miraculous circumstances I was brought into the music industry fold. If divine powers hadn't intervened, I'd still be living in China working in some area of Sino-American comparative law.

  

  Abigail Washburn
  • Music
  • American
  • Law

• There is something fascinating about every human being. The question is how much they're willing to divulge.

  

  Nathaniel Rich
  • Question
  • Human
  • Human being

• I think I've become more comfortable about being a human being.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Think
  • Human
  • Human being

• I've grown so much, not just as an actor, but as a human being.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Human
  • Actor
  • Human being

• You really have to create everything in order to come away with a full human being on screen.

  

  Samantha Mathis
  • You
  • Human
  • Human being

• It must inquire not merely about the circumstances of the time in general, but in particular about the writer's position with regard to these things, the interests and motives, the leading ideas of his literary activity.

  

  Ferdinand Christian Baur
  • Time
  • Ideas
  • Circumstances

• I'm a human being, and I get sick.

  

  Kat Graham
  • Human
  • Sick
  • Human being

• A human being is a deciding being.

  

  Viktor E. Frankl
  • Human
  • Being
  • Human being

• I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Think
  • Human
  • Human being

• We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal.

  

  Walter Gilbert
  • Human
  • Human being
  • Genes

• So interviews are a valuable tool, but under certain circumstances they'd be more valuable than others.

  

  Hans Blix
  • Circumstances
  • Others
  • Tool

• In plain words: now that Britain has told the world that she has the H-Bomb she should announce as early as possible that she has done with it, that she proposes to reject in all circumstances nuclear warfare.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • World
  • Circumstances
  • Nuclear

• You have to see and smell and feel the circumstances of people to really understand them.

  

  Kamala Harris
  • People
  • You
  • Circumstances

• Everybody is a human being. We should be able to coexist with one another.

  

  La'Porsha Renae
  • Human
  • Being
  • Human being

• Any use of chemical weapons, by anyone, under any circumstances, is a grave violation of the 1925 Protocol and other relevant rules of customary international law.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Law
  • Circumstances
  • Rules

• If I would be a young man again and had to decide how to make my living, I would not try to become a scientist or scholar or teacher. I would rather choose to be a plumber or a peddler in the hope to find that modest degree of independence still available under present circumstances.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Hope
  • Present
  • Teacher

• Given (Scotty's Paving) circumstances, I don't think the Fiscal Court should hold (the company's) feet to the fire.

  

  Wayne Newton
  • Fire
  • Circumstances

• Well, on tour I eat terribly, so I balance that by running a lot. And then I started to run with my fans in certain cities. It sounds very nerdy and un-rock n' roll, but I like it. It's fun, and it's better than meeting fans in weird, awkward circumstances. So I take them running with me.

  

  Ellie Goulding
  • Fun
  • Running
  • Rock

• I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

  

  Sean O'Casey
  • Life
  • Song
  • Enjoyable

• A Dirty Shame was a crazy movie. I don't understand that movie at all. I don't get it, but I'd work with John Waters again in a heartbeat. He's just a delight.

  

  Selma Blair
  • Water
  • Crazy
  • Shame

• Happy trails to you, until we meet again. Some trails are happy ones, Others are blue. It's the way you ride the trail that counts, Here's a happy one for you.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Happy
  • Way
  • Counts

• Accidentally consumed five biscuits when I wasn't paying attention. Those biscuits are wily fellows - they leap in like sugary ninjas.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Attention
  • Biscuits
  • Ninjas

• I get pissed off when people at radio and TV shows say, "Can you keep a clean show?" Motherfuckers! Don't they know who they booked? It was the same with the single "Fuck It". They wanted me to change the words to "Forget it" or some bullshit.

  

  Eamon Doyle
  • Change
  • Radio
  • Forget It

• They are inherently good - the bad reactions aren't basic. Every human being is a child of God and has more good in him than evil - but circumstances and associates can step up the bad and reduce the good. I've got great faith in the essential fairness and decency - you may say goodness - of the human being.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Circumstances
  • Human being
  • Child Of God