Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

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• I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • World
  • Food
  • Countries

• I loved publishing; I loved working in the book industry, but I've been writing pretty much nonstop since I was 19. I realized very early on that I would need a day job, and I wanted one that was in books.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Writing
  • Job
  • Book

• I would like to direct.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Like
  • Would
  • Direct

• Those who survived the San Francisco earthquake said, 'Thank God, I'm still alive.' But, of course, those who died, their lives will never be the same again.

  

  Barbara Boxer
  • God
  • Said
  • Thank God

• I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.

  

  Katee Sackhoff
  • Good
  • Small
  • Try

• There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Life
  • Women
  • Sad

• I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Better
  • Outside
  • Outsider

• There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • People
  • Listening
  • Silence

• Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.

  

  Adam Lamberg
  • Time
  • Different
  • You

• It was just such a demeaning thing to do, being in silent movies. They'd call you up and tell you, 'Hey, jump off this building!' and they'd give you a hundred bucks, and you'd do it.

  

  Parker Posey
  • Up
  • Movies
  • Building

• It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Hard
  • Again

• When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?

  

  Park Shin-hye
  • Marriage
  • Thought
  • Year

• Remember that children, marriages, and flower gardens reflect the kind of care they get.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Children
  • Remember
  • Flower

• I had a moment where I was like, 'I'm so tired of waiting for other people to accept me.'

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • People
  • Me
  • Waiting

• You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • Job
  • You
  • Show

• The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.

  

  Mae Jemison
  • Feeling
  • Space
  • Universe

• I want every day to be life for the living, not just traipsing through it existing. I'm just interested in life and the world and exploring.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Life
  • World
  • Day

• We live in a dark time. Books are as dark as what is available to teenagers through the media every day.

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Time
  • Live
  • Day

• As a parent with young children, I would always find little things that bothered me when I was reading bedtime stories or watching shows or listening to children's music. I couldn't find any stories, games or television shows that were fun and exciting while also being morally instructive and patriotic.

  

  Allen Covert
  • Music
  • Children
  • Fun

• Most of the moments of our life - and I calculated, you know, the psychological present is said to be about three seconds long; that means that, you know, in a life there are about 600 million of them; in a month, there are about 600,000 - most of them don't leave a trace.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • Life
  • Long
  • Moments

• Were they, for some purpose almost too cunning for belief, only disguised as themselves?

  

  T. H. White
  • Purpose
  • Belief
  • Cunning

• I'm not just a rapper. I'm an entertainer. That's the difference.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Differences
  • Rapper
  • Entertainers

• Purple haze all in my eyes, don't know if it's day or night. You got me blowing, blowin' my mind. Is it tomorrow or just the end of time?

  

  Jimi Hendrix The Jimi Hendrix Experience
  • Night
  • Eyes
  • Day

• The tests of life are not to break you but to make you.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Break
  • Tests