William Gurnall Quotes

Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

William Gurnall

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• Prosperity
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• As for T.B. Joshua, I am a descendant of my family in Arigidi-Akoko in Ondo State, Nigeria - but as for the divine nature, the power of God affects my life to give peace to people, deliverance to people, and healing to people.

  

  T. B. Joshua
  • People
  • Life
  • God

• If anyone has followed my career, they know that there's been a lot of obstacles and a lot of ups and down through my career. But day in and day out, and in the square circle, I went out there and always did my best.

  

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.
  • Career
  • Day
  • Best

• The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • World
  • Control
  • Eyes

• I enjoy Saturday night racing.

  

  Dale Earnhardt
  • Night
  • Enjoy
  • Saturday

• I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Drug
  • Addiction
  • Video Games

• A 'conservative believer' must be someone who believes that Jesus was truly human as well as truly divine.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • Human
  • Conservative

• Religious poetry, civic poetry, lyric or dramatic poetry are all categories of man's expression which are valid only if the endorsement of formal content is valid.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
  • Man
  • Religious
  • Poetry

• My mom often tells me to get married, but she gets it now that I don't want to. Like any other mom, she is worried, but she also understands the demands of my profession. I am blessed to have a family like this.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Family
  • Mom
  • Married

• As prime minister, I changed Israel's position on peace negotiations. I made it clear that we are ready to go along with Resolution 242 of the U.N. Security Council, which specifies withdrawal to secure and recognized boundaries in the context of peace.

  

  Yitzhak Rabin
  • Peace
  • Security
  • Boundaries

• I am an advocate of education. It is the panacea for all that ails us in our society.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Society
  • Education
  • Advocate

• I love action movies.

  

  Adam McKay
  • Love
  • Action
  • Movies

• Always do your best. What you plant now, you will harvest later.

  

  Og Mandino
  • Best
  • Motivational
  • Plant

• It's constantly fascinating for me that something that feels absolutely right one year, 12 months later feels like the wrong thing to do.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Me
  • Like
  • Year

• I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Up
  • Best
  • Artist

• I was possessed by London.

  

  Manolo Blahnik
  • London
  • Possessed

• We had to get on food stamps for a short period of time, so I understand the need for those.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Time
  • Food
  • Period

• Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • World
  • Character
  • Emotions

• News, if unreported, has no impact. It might as well have not happened at all.

  

  Gay Talese
  • News
  • Impact
  • Well

• People only have guilty pleasures when they crowbar pleasure down their throat all the time and then they reach for the brownies. Then you should feel guilty because you're killing your body and that's something to be guilty about.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • People
  • Time
  • Guilty

• I've got the hungries for your love and I'm waiting in your welfare line.

  

  Buck Owens
  • Waiting
  • Lines
  • Welfare

• The adventure of the Christian life begins when we dare to do what we would never tackle without Christ.

  

  William Penn
  • Christian
  • Adventure
  • Christ

• How can one ever do anything nobly Christian, living among people with such petty thoughts?

  

  George Eliot
  • People
  • Christian
  • Thoughts

• The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

  

  Red Cloud
  • Man
  • Gold
  • White

• Few are made better by prosperity, whom afflictions make worse.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Christian
  • Made
  • Prosperity