William Gurnall Quotes

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

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• Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Music
  • Think
  • Talent

• That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Today
  • Television
  • News

• Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • Experience
  • Failure
  • End

• I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.

  

  Usher
  • Time
  • Kids
  • Morning

• You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.

  

  Pablo Sandoval
  • Past
  • You
  • Mistakes

• What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.

  

  Igor Stravinsky
  • Real
  • Artist
  • Prestige

• I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Business
  • Hope
  • Animal

• With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Good
  • Long
  • Book

• Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Why
  • Want
  • Technology

• If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Right
  • Marry
  • Motorcycle

• The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • Power
  • Need
  • Slavery

• My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • World
  • Me
  • Daughter

• I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.

  

  Kacey Musgraves
  • Music
  • Long
  • Play

• Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.

  

  Oliver Reed
  • People
  • Great
  • True

• There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.

  

  Dakota Fanning
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Welcome

• I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• You have to constantly redefine who you are.

  

  M.I.A.
  • You
  • Who
  • Redefine

• If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein

• We were young, we were foolish, we were arrogant, but we were right.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • Young
  • Foolish
  • Arrogant

• You climbed into my window in the middle of the night. So, either you're some kind of Vampire or some kind of Perv. Which is it?

  

  Kami Garcia
  • Night
  • Choices
  • Vampire

• Cover this confirmation process with prayer. When they make it harder for us to pray, we just pray harder.

  

  Zell Miller
  • Prayer
  • Process
  • Just

• As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly."

  

  Barack Obama
  • Mind
  • Argument
  • Folks

• Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

  

  William Gurnall
  • Prayer
  • Promise
  • Argument