Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

Norman Vincent Peale

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• Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Time
  • World
  • Plan

• I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Know
  • Me
  • Loved

• I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Time
  • Feel
  • First Time

• I never wanted to give up my given name. I'm proud of it, but the only problem was that no one remembered it. It was just a little too awkward, and they mispronounced it so frequently.

  

  Warren Kole
  • Up
  • Problem
  • Proud

• In the world of words, the imagination is one of the forces of nature.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • World
  • Nature
  • Words

• Those men who, in war, seek to preserve their lives at any rate commonly die with shame and ignominy, while those who look upon death as common to all, and unavoidable, and are only solicitous to die with honour, oftener arrive at old age and, while they live, live happier.

  

  Xenophon
  • Men
  • Live
  • War

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Country

• I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.

  

  Carl Wilson
  • People
  • Up
  • Country

• Sometimes we misunderstand what films can do. We just throw a whole book in there, with people just talking, talking, and talking. The picture can tell, the frame can tell.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Book
  • Picture

• I came of age as a male lead actor just as the TV landscape dramatically shifted.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Age
  • Lead
  • Landscape

• If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Long
  • Security
  • Cost

• As a very young writer - kindergarten through about fifth grade - I most often wrote about black characters. My very early stories were science fiction and fantasy, with kids stowing away on spaceships and a girl named Tilly who was trying to get into the 'Guinness Book of World Records.'

  

  Tananarive Due
  • World
  • Trying
  • Book

• I think in general, lines are a bad idea. Especially if they sound like lines. Everyone's immediate reaction is to just kind of cringe a little bit.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Bad
  • Think
  • Kind

• I need this wild life, this freedom.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • WIld

• I'm generally competing with the ideal I have set for myself, and I've found that served me very well.

  

  Victoria Principal
  • Me
  • Myself
  • Competing

• Europe is especially vulnerable to terrorists who may hide among the refugees pouring across its borders.

  

  Naftali Bennett
  • May
  • Europe
  • Refugees

• Normally, young writers have all the time in the world and they don't always use it well.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • World
  • Young

• Many ethnic minorities chafed at the postcolonial nationalism of India and Pakistan, and some rebelled.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • India
  • Some
  • Nationalism

• I was raised on the Southside of Chicago, and my whole family was musically-inclined.

  

  Jeremih Felton
  • Family
  • Chicago

• I know musicians who think that drumming and guitaring can be very meditative, but singing is different because when you think about things, you put words to them. So I try to just stay present most of the time, I try not to let my mind wander and I also try not to clear my mind. I like to still have thought and be aware of people and whatever that's happening, but I also like to just focus on the words that I'm saying.

  

  Brett Dennen
  • Words
  • Focus
  • Musicians

• I suppose I could have stayed home and baked cookies and had teas, but what I decided to do was to fulfill my profession which I entered before my husband was in public life.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Life
  • Home
  • Husband

• Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

  

  John Ortberg
  • Life
  • God
  • War

• The Plus Factor makes its appearance in a person's life in proportion as that person is in harmony with God and His universal laws.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Persons
  • Appearance