Abbott Eliot Kittredge Quotes

Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.

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• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Concentration
  • Equate
  • Pow

• One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Important
  • Greatest

• The words that reverberate for us at the confines of this long adventure of rebellion are not formulas for optimism, for which we have no possible use in the extremities of our unhappiness, but words of courage and intelligence which, on the shores of the eternal seas, even have the qualities of virtue.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Long
  • Words
  • Courage

• Numerous studies have shown that global warming can actually be beneficial to mankind.

  

  Jim Inhofe

• The reason people talk about cable cutting is they imagine the price burden will get so high that people won't be able to pay it. They're missing something: that the actual price of the electronic package is going down. They've got their Internet, phone, TV, all of it. Now people are using more and more stuff for less.

  

  Jeffrey Bewkes
  • People
  • High
  • Cutting

• It's hard to wrap my head around the fact that there are people who can't or won't see what Black Lives Matter is trying to accomplish.

  

  The Weeknd
  • People
  • Trying
  • Black

• For me, it's always just been about finding material that I think is creative and interesting and fun and something that can expand me and that I can hopefully do something with.

  

  Don Cheadle
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• With Akismet, there was an interesting dilemma. Is it for the good of the world Akismet being secret and being more effective against spammers, versus it being open and less effective?

  

  Matt Mullenweg
  • World
  • Good
  • Interesting

• I write in two very different places: my desk in Palo Alto, California, is piled high with myriad jumbled books and papers whose stratigraphy is a challenge. Summers in Bozeman, Montana, I write in a spare space, surrounded by interesting rocks and fossils instead of books, on an old oak table with nothing but my laptop.

  

  Adrienne Mayor
  • Different
  • High
  • Interesting

• Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera.

  

  Jean de La Fontaine

• To care only for well-being seems to me positively ill-bred. Whether it's good or bad, it is sometimes very pleasant, too, to smash things.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Good
  • Bad

• The only reason I'd ever get a sex change operation is to see what it's like to be right all the time.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Time
  • Women
  • Funny

• You're always allowed to be better.

  

  Donald Glover
  • Always
  • Better

• If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Believe
  • May

• Americans keep telling me they hate government. I always tell them: "Man, I've got a country for you: Go to Afghanistan; they don't have one." So if you're of that ilk, yes, you can have your private paradise, but if you're comfortable with government, then go with government.

  

  Uwe Reinhardt
  • Men
  • Country
  • Hate

• I inhale loneliness like it is the sweet smell of virgin earth conquered by fiery rain drops. Within me, I'm a thousand others.

  

  Faraaz Kazi
  • Earth
  • Sweet
  • Rain

• One half of me is a hopeless romantic. The other half is well... just realistic.

  

  Faraaz Kazi
  • Romantic

• Nature forms us in a certain manner, both inwardly and outwardly, and it is in vain to attempt to alter it.

  

  Lady Hester Stanhope
  • Nature

• Being a film director involves, above all, a lot of hard work and resolve and determination. The glamour doesn't come until the premiere and the thing is all long done.

  

  D. W. Griffith
  • Work
  • Long
  • Done

• Be where the acting is. I live in Houston. Dallas is 4 1/2 hours away. I let them know there's no difference.

  

  Vic Mignogna
  • Live
  • Know
  • Acting

• God does not exist to answer our prayers, but by our prayers we come to discern the mind of God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Mind
  • Answer

• Oh! for this baptism of fire! when every spoken word for Jesus shall be a thunderbolt, and every prayer shall bring forth a mighty flood.

  

  Abbott Eliot Kittredge
  • Prayer
  • Flood