Norman Vincent Peale Quotes

The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

Norman Vincent Peale

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• I got an offer in 1992 to buy a major-league team. I turned down the offer because I don't want my love of the game to involve business.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • Business
  • Game
  • Offer

• I really enjoy getting to go and play on other people's shows for an episode or two. It adds such variety to my repertoire.

  

  Natalie Zea
  • People
  • Play
  • Enjoy

• If a man reaches the heart of his own religion, he has reached the heart of the others, too. There is only one God, and there are many paths to him.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • God
  • Heart
  • Man

• There's nothing wrong with being anthropomorphic. That's how we understand the world.

  

  Natalie Jeremijenko
  • World
  • Understand
  • Nothing

• 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

• 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've always been taught that hard work doesn't fail.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • Work
  • Hard Work
  • Fail

• You have to relish the challenge of television.

  

  Laura Linney
  • You
  • Challenge
  • Television

• I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Thinking

• In 1853, American warships bullied Japan out of centuries of virtual isolation and into the modern world. The threat of force compelled Japan, like India and China before it, to accept trade agreements that were economically ruinous and eroded national sovereignty.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • World
  • American
  • India

• In the theater, it's a visceral and physical response because you move around so much. You have to do something physical to pull you in. On TV or in movies, everything is so small. You can just lock into a character and ease yourself into that way.

  

  LaTanya Richardson
  • Character
  • Small
  • Yourself

• There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

  

  Samantha Barks
  • Live
  • You
  • Crying

• California's drought affects everyone in the state, from farmers to fishermen, business owners to suburban residents, and everyone has a role to play in using precious water resources as wisely and efficiently as possible.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Business
  • Water
  • California

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

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Time
  • World
  • Young

• I don't know anyone, from any class, who's had a perfectly easy life. I've met people born into wealthy families who feel like they didn't have much emotional support, and people who come from working-class families who had loads of love but no money.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Money
  • Families

• No state can match the beauty of the Chesapeake Bay, our beaches and farms, or the mountains of Western Maryland, the Port of Baltimore, or the historic charm of every corner of our state.

  

  Larry Hogan
  • Beauty
  • Mountains
  • Corner

• The United States has grown into a remarkable nation specifically because of our independent spirit and free market.

  

  Tammy Bruce
  • Free
  • Independent
  • Nation

• I was drawn to street photography because there are pictures everywhere there: a woman holding a dog, a baby screaming to be put in a pram, kids playing punch ball, stores with huge barrels of kosher pickles outside. I wanted to photograph life, and here it was.

  

  Harold Feinstein
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Baby

• Children of the same family, the same blood, with the same first associations and habits, have some means of enjoyment in their power, which no subsequent connections can supply.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Children
  • Family
  • Blood

• We don't go to parties much. I am very serious about my work. But I also have two children, and I wanted to do that job well.

  

  Jenny Packham
  • Work
  • Children
  • Job

• We work not only to produce, but to give value to time.

  

  Eugene Delacroix
  • Work
  • Value
  • Produce

• I am not suited to the role of going around selling the life-can-be-beautiful idea. It can be, indeed. But you don't buy the concept from your friendly door-to-door lecture salesman.

  

  John D. MacDonald
  • Life
  • Beautiful
  • Door

• We've got to use every piece of data and piece of information, and hopefully that will help us be accurate with our player evaluation. For us, that's our life blood.

  

  Billy Beane
  • Life
  • Help
  • Player

• The life of inner peace, being harmonious and without stress, is the easiest type of existence.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Life
  • Peace
  • Existence