William Barclay Quotes

It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

William Barclay

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• Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Great
  • Women
  • Look

• Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Home
  • Running
  • Enjoy

• My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Attention
  • Desire
  • Bored

• Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Country
  • High
  • Small

• Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.

  

  Adam D'Angelo
  • Long
  • Focus
  • Decisions

• Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Travel
  • Exercise
  • Shoes

• Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Up
  • Like
  • Religion

• Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Country
  • Help
  • Problem

• I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.

  

  Yara Shahidi
  • School
  • Walking
  • Shoes

• I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Said
  • Security
  • Illusion

• I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.

  

  Mackenzie Astin
  • Fun
  • You
  • Names

• I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Religion
  • Seriously
  • Effect

• The bad boy: always more fun.

  

  Ian McShane
  • Bad
  • Fun
  • Boy

• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

  Laura Ingraham
  • People
  • Think
  • Want

• Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Risk
  • Failure
  • Go

• I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.

  

  Felix Baumgartner
  • Good
  • Percent
  • Pilot

• The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Hand
  • Better
  • Determination

• It's not 2038 that Social Security is bankrupt. It's now.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Security
  • Now
  • Social

• I remember being described often as 'the horrifically ugly Jack McCall,' and I kept thinking it took me about 10 seconds to get like that.

  

  Garrett Dillahunt
  • Thinking
  • Remember
  • Ugly

• Injuries are not only a physical question, which is the most important thing, of course, but also a question of your mind. If you're thinking: 'I'm not going to make it', 'I can't cope', 'it hurts', 'it's never going to get better', then it won't.

  

  Luis Suarez
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Mind

• I talk a lot about strength, faith and love, but I don't ever talk about the fact that I am one of the most sensitive people in my family. That might be the most shocking, because you always see me fighting the good fight, with the strong face on, but I am the most emotional.

  

  Monica
  • People
  • Good
  • Family

• My dream artist to play at prom would be Frank Ocean. 'Thinking Of You' is one of my favorite songs. He makes really sweet music for slow dancing at prom.

  

  Bella Thorne
  • Music
  • Thinking
  • Dream

• 'Give them the old Trump bullshit,' he told the architect Der Scutt before a presentation of the Trump Tower design at a press conference in 1980. 'Tell them it is going to be a million square feet, sixty-eight stories.'

  

  Donald Trump
  • Design
  • Trump

• It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.

  

  William Barclay
  • Thinking
  • Faith
  • Easy