Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.
Quotes to Explore
-
If you try to create something that everybody can relate to, you're gonna make something that nobody can relate to.
-
Nobody has done more for me than my parents, who devoted untold amounts of time and money that allowed me to play the game I love. It's no exaggeration to say I never would have gotten anywhere near a World Cup, an Olympics, or even the U.S. national team without them. I have never forgotten that, and I never will.
-
I always did plays. When I was in kindergarten, I got chosen to be Alvin in 'The Chipmunks.' We did a Chipmunks song. I was always a natural performer. It was easy for me. I danced and I sang, and all that stuff. I felt like I'd be something in the arts, but it vacillated between being a dancer and a singer, or whatever.
-
The crossroads of science and politics is a dodgy place.
-
I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.
-
In this media-drenched, multitasking, always-on age, many of us have forgotten how to unplug and immerse ourselves completely in the moment. We have forgotten how to slow down. Not surprisingly, this fast-forward culture is taking a toll on everything from our diet and health to our work and the environment.
-
Look at Michelle Obama. Everyone keeps making a big deal about her arms being exposed, but don't get it twisted: her arms are out for a reason. Black women have had those arms forever - lifting, picking cotton, toting and carrying babies.
-
I don't sort of sit in a chair and pompously feel proud of myself about all the things we might have accomplished.
-
Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church. 1
-
The camera can film my face but until it captures my soul, you don't have a movie.
-
He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
-
John Kerry, windsurfing dilettante.
-
If any chef ever tells you they're not inspired equally by the truck-stop barbecue as they are by the four-star Michelin restaurant they are lying.
-
Get rid of words and meaning, and there is still poetry.
-
Whenever I doubt the existence of God or the Goddess, I look at horses. Only God could have made a horse.
-
My mom used to make everything. She had a great garden and composted and made everything from scratch - peanut butter, bread, jelly, everything. I don't know how she did it because all those things take time and love and labour. I only do half the stuff she does - but there's still time.
-
I don't want to be like, yes, I think the American answer is always stupid, or I think it's always the right answer. So I'm in this weird place there. I'm feeling it out. Cambodia is going through an enormous amount of change right now. Daily.
-
You get in life what you have the courage to ask for.
-
If only I could rest for a time in quiet pain and awaken new and willing. He is looking forward and I am inward.
-
Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.
-
Whoever is not made glorified by taqwa can find no glory.
-
Ask for what you want, but be willing to take what God gives you. It may be better than what you asked for.
