Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.

Norman Vincent Peale

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• You know, my family stood for something that they believed in, and I wasn't about to turn my back on them.

  

  Rafael Palmeiro
  • Family
  • You
  • Know

• I started wearing all black around the time I got into Nirvana. I first heard 'Smells Like Teen Spirit' when I was about 12, and I remember jumping on my bed, so excited about it.

  

  Natasha Lyonne
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Black

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• As for swimming, I'm now in the pool 5 days a week from 8 to 10 a.m. And I'm in the gym for an hour and a half, 4 days a week. Two days upper body, two days lower.

  

  Dana Torres
  • Body
  • Week
  • Gym

• 'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Music
  • Real
  • Job

• And a democracy can't exist without free speech and the right to assemble. And that's what Americans tend to forget. And they're born into a culture where they take all of their freedoms for granted.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Free
  • Culture
  • Democracy

• I never lie to my fans.

  

  Becky G
  • Never
  • Fans
  • Lie

• A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.

  

  Madeleine Albright
  • People
  • Time
  • Thinking

• With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Writing
  • Want

• Where educational deprivation exists, it breeds conflict and enables repression.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Conflict
  • Where
  • Educational

• The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Why
  • Man

• Remember me with smiles and laughter, for that is how I will remember you all. If you can only remember me with tears, then don't remember me at all.

  

  Laura Ingalls Wilder
  • Remember
  • Me
  • Laughter

• Muslim delegates concerned about rights in Palestine could have brought their enthusiasm closer to home by addressing the fate of black Christians being slaughtered and enslaved in the Sudan.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Home
  • Black
  • Fate

• For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.

  

  Edward R. Murrow

• Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • World
  • Live

• The colour of my soul is iron-grey and sad bats wheel about the steeple of my dreams.

  

  Claude Debussy
  • Soul
  • Sad

• The gipsy tents are on the down,The gipsy girls are here;And it's O to be off and away from the townWith a gipsy for my dear!

  

  Arthur Symons

• If we got into a situation where people start burning our records, then bring it on. That's the whole point. The gloaming has begun. We're in the darkness. This has happened before. Go read some history.

  

  Thom Yorke Radiohead
  • People
  • History

• We're the only major company in the U.S. that is solely in the professional beauty industry. We promised hairdressers when we started that we would stay with them. If I went retail tomorrow then we would be four times our size overnight, but I'm going to be the one guy who kept his word.

  

  John Paul DeJoria
  • Guy
  • Professional

• We are all our own graveyards I believe; we squat amongst the tombs of the people we were. If we're healthy, every day is a celebration, a Day of the Dead, in which we give thanks for the lives that we lived; and if we are neurotic we brood and mourn and wish that the past was still present.

  

  Clive Barker
  • People
  • Believe
  • Past

• My older brothers, they know how to keep my head straight and be thinking about what I need to do on the court. Now I have that in me, that mentality, that I want to get better and better every game. Thanks to them, they showed me the way.

  

  Kristaps Porzingis
  • Thinking
  • Game
  • Thanks

• Kropp on the other hand is a thinker. He proposes that a declaration of war should be a kind of popular festival with entrance-tickets and bands, like a bull fight. Then in the arena the ministers and generals of the two countries, dressed in bathing-drawers and armed with clubs, can have it out on themselves. Whoever survives the country wins. That would be much simpler and more than just this arrangement, where the wrong people do the fighting.

  

  Erich Maria Remarque
  • Wins
  • Ministers
  • Thinker

• Do not always ask when you pray, but instead affirm that God's blessings are being given, and spend most of your prayers giving thanks.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
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  • Pray
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