Amit Abraham Quotes

The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.

Amit Abraham

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• Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Heart
  • Reality

• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• We have to still develop the Ikea group. We need many billions of Swiss francs to take on China or Russia.

  

  Ingvar Kamprad
  • Need
  • Group
  • China

• As a college student, I worked as a mentor, and that got me involved in working with young people long before I became a foster parent.

  

  Vanessa Diffenbaugh
  • People
  • Long
  • College

• No one should be able to enter a wilderness by mechanical means.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Environmental
  • Wilderness

• England in a way is lucky. It's an island, so the frontiers are given by the sea.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Sea
  • Lucky
  • Island

• I think that when the social stakes for people are higher, how you present yourself may sometimes feel like it's going to inform your destiny. Because if other people regard you in a certain way, they'll want to help you, and you will end up having a career.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • People
  • Up
  • May

• I learned that lack of budget can be overcome by fan passion if you can get your content to the people who like what you do.

  

  Felicia Day
  • People
  • Passion
  • Budget

• Whatever is said about roles drying up, I intend to keep working. Certainly now the roles couldn't be more interesting - playing mothers, divorcees. I think it's going to be exciting to play a mother of teenagers. The longer your life, the deeper it gets.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Life
  • Up
  • Mother

• It's my job to know what's available from every retailer, catalog, website, antiques mall, and craftsperson. A good designer or decorator has to have an almost encyclopedic knowledge.

  

  Nate Berkus
  • Good
  • Job
  • Knowledge

• I used to work a lot on ranches where I grew up, and I had to rise at 5:30 in the morning.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• What is Juche the subject in our Party's ideological work? What are we doing? We are not engaged in any other country's revolution, but precisely in the Korean revolution. This, the Korean revolution, constitutes Juche in the ideological work of our Party. Therefore, all ideological work must be subordinated to the interests of the Korean revolution.

  

  Kim Il-sung
  • Work
  • Country
  • Party

• You are a human boy, my young friend. A human boy. O glorious to be a human boy!... O running stream of sparkling joy To be a soaring human boy!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Running
  • Friend
  • Joy

• Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Party

• I really try my best not to get attached to a script, because I know what it takes: It takes you away from your family and what you like to do.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Family

• We must ensure our system of higher education offers world-class quality for a world-class economy.

  

  Bob Taft
  • World
  • Education
  • Quality

• Much before I entered films, my dad walked into my room and saw me busy drawing something at 3 A.M. He stood there for some time and said, 'Whatever career choice you make, you are going to be successful.' I'll never forget those words. It gave me the confidence to be who I am today.

  

  Allu Arjun
  • Time
  • Today
  • Career

• My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.

  

  Mario Testino
  • Eyes

• To be able to say: I loved this person, we had a hell of a nice time together, it's over but in a way it will never be over and I do know that I for sure loved this person, to be able to say that and mean it, that's rare. That's rare and valuable.

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Mean

• I try and make little stories. Whether it's with a pencil or with bits of records, it's really the same thing.

  

  Eric San
  • Stories
  • Records
  • Pencil

• But God, who is the Eternal Mind, is undoubtedly of excellence, complete and perfect in every part.

  

  Lactantius
  • God
  • Mind
  • Perfect

• At the heart of the best documentaries, there is a journey of inquiry - someone who travels out into the world, comes back with a story, and who then finds meaning in it, and intrigue; someone who tells you about something you never quite knew before, or in a way you hadn't quite thought about.

  

  David Fanning
  • World
  • Heart
  • Journey

• I do not ask, O Lord, that life may beA pleasant road.I do not ask that Thou wouldst take from meAught of its load;

  

  Adelaide Anne Procter
  • Life
  • May
  • Road

• The heart has its reasons but the mind makes the excuses.

  

  Amit Abraham
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Excuses