Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

Norman Vincent Peale

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• Strict conservation of energy in the elementary process had thus been confirmed also by a negative experiment.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Energy
  • Process
  • Negative

• Marriage has made me safer.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Me
  • Marriage
  • Made

• Careers don't interest me. The only thing that interests me is continuing to be a poet on one level or another, whether acting or writing or directing.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Acting

• Church was a requirement - there was no choice in the matter; so was vacation bible school. Gospel has been in me since I was a kid.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • School
  • Church
  • Bible

• I think togetherness is a very important ingredient to family life.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Men and women should stay apart, till their hearts grow gentle towards one another again.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Men
  • Women
  • Grow

• I want to be the best version of myself - intellectually, emotionally, and physically. So I like to wear clothes that I feel comfortable in, that reflect that.

  

  Gabrielle Anwar
  • Myself
  • Best
  • Clothes

• I watch a lot of hockey. There are some good hockey players and there are some awfully stupid hockey players.

  

  Ted Lindsay
  • Good
  • Stupid
  • Hockey

• I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Kids
  • Brain
  • Computer

• There is a very deep conviction in the heart of the people who work in al-Jazeera that if it changes its editorial line, it will very quickly lose its audience. Al-Jazeera has its own style; it has more than 3,500 employees, and I don't think anyone will have the attitude of changing it because they will lose.

  

  Wadah Khanfar
  • People
  • Work
  • Heart

• Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Life
  • Country
  • Family

• Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• My grandad was a miner. My father, brother, and uncles all work in industry.

  

  Faye Marsay
  • Work
  • Father
  • Brother

• I'm not one for Sudoku or crosswords - the thing that fires my little brain is doing tour budgets.

  

  Ian Anderson
  • Brain
  • Doing
  • Little

• E-mails, phone calls, Web sites, videos. They're still all letters, basically, and they've come to outnumber old-fashioned conversations. They are the conversation now.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Conversation
  • Now
  • Phone

• I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Outside

• Fear can be good when you're walking past an alley at night or when you need to check the locks on your doors before you go to bed, but it's not good when you have a goal and you're fearful of obstacles. We often get trapped by our fears, but anyone who has had success has failed before.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Good
  • Success
  • Night

• I think the veil is a way of taking power away from women.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Women
  • Power
  • Think

• I think a revolution can survive without single centralized leadership.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Leadership
  • Revolution
  • Survive

• I become exaggerated, and loud, and obnoxious, and full of the spirit of improvisation. That's one of the weird things about performing, I think that any performer will say the same thing when you're on stage in front of a crowd there's a certain moment when you kind of click into a trance-like state and you just kind of go with it. I love getting into that mode. It's transcendental.

  

  Wayne White
  • Spirit
  • Improvisation
  • Obnoxious

• The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Man
  • Law
  • Sports

• It's as though a certain level of intoxication with the mushroom is the precondition for being able to communicate, but is not itself enough.

  

  Terence McKenna
  • Enough
  • Certain
  • Able

• Life's blows cannot break a person whose spirit is warmed at the fire of enthusiasm.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Spirit
  • Entusiasm
  • Life's Blow