Norman Vincent Peale Quotes
The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.
Quotes to Explore
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.
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I swear allegiance to the Republic of Sudan.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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When I wrote 'The West Wing,' the juice behind it was that in popular culture, our leaders in government are generally portrayed as Machiavellian, or as idiots. I thought, well, how about writing about a group of hyper-competent people?
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A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.
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My voice is not good enough for me to sing a song.
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What is your identity, and how do you know who you are if you don't have language?
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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Desire is the starting point of all achievement, not a hope, not a wish, but a keen pulsating desire which transcends everything.
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I'm a character actress. I'm the girl next door, the aunt, the quirky cousin. You have to innately know who you are and be happy with that.
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Paul Krugman is a danger to society!
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It's important to determine which surroundings work best for you, and then build that environment to suit your needs.
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Beware of any work for God that causes or allows you to avoid concentrating on Him.
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Roll the weed up
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If patience is worth anything, it must endure to the end of time. And a living faith will last in the midst of the blackest storm.
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The antidote to frustration is a calm faith, not in your own cleverness, or in hard toil, but in God's guidance.
