Tony Evans Quotes

Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.

Tony Evans

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• A spacecraft cockpit interior is a set where there are a lot of little techy bits, control panels and graphics displays, and other things that are kind of a job to manufacture well.

  

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• We don’t need any more promises. We need to start keeping the promises we already made.

  

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• The real need is not for more hospital beds. It's for more primary care and keeping people out of hospital beds and emergency rooms.

  

  Alice Rivlin
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• Actually, cats do this to protect you from gnomes who come and steal your breath while you sleep.

  

  John Dobbin
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• I've nothing against anyone following their dreams - but not if they're crap.

  

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• Happiness follows sorrow, sorrow follows happiness, but when one no longer discriminates happiness and sorrow, a good deal and a bad deed, one is able to realize freedom.

  

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• Our concern for human rights comes to the fore when there are gross violations of human decencies. Then other countries, including China, must recognize that this affects the American attitude towards their country. But towards what precise institutions will it evolve? I think we ought to leave something to history.

  

  Henry Kissinger
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• I look up to people that are much older than me, so being a mentor is a full time job.

  

  Nicole Trunfio
  • People
  • Looks
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• This survival of the fittest which I have here sought to express in mechanical terms, is that which Mr. Darwin has called "natural selection", or the preservation of favoured races in the struggle for life.

  

  Herbert Spencer

• What makes authentic disciples is not visions, ecstasies, biblical mastery of chapter and verse, or spectacular success in the ministry, but a capacity for faithfulness. Buffeted by the fickle winds of failure, battered by their own unruly emotions, and bruised by rejection and ridicule, authentic disciples may have stumbled and frequently fallen, endured lapses and relapses, gotten handcuffed to the fleshpots and wandered into a far county. Yet, they kept coming back to Jesus.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Jesus
  • Failure
  • Emotions

• I definitely prefer being a lover than a fighter.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Fighter
  • Lover
  • Prefer

• He'd fashioned himself into one hard edge. He was all blade and no handle. If she held him close, she'd risk being cut.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Close
  • Himself
  • Cut

• I want to create a body of work that is entertaining and speaks to people for a long time. Longer than my life span.

  

  Jack O'Connell
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• I have always found, though I am unable to account for it, that daylight banishes many of the fears that are apt to assail us in the dark.

  

  R. M. Ballantyne
  • Fears
  • Daylight
  • Banishes

• How great is the path proper to the Sage! Like overflowing water, it sends forth and nourishes all things, and rises up to the height of heaven. All-complete is its greatness! It embraces the three hundred rules of ceremony, and the three thousand rules of demeanor. It waits for the proper man, and then it is trodden. Hence it is said, 'Only by perfect virtue can the perfect path, in all its courses, be made a fact.'

  

  Confucius
  • Heaven
  • Rules
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• I began writing for kids because I wanted to effect a change in American society. I continue in that spirit. By the time we reach adulthood, we are closed and set in our attitudes. The chances of a poet reaching us are very slim. But I can open a child's imagination, develop his appetite for poetry, and more importantly, show him that poetry is a natural part of everyday life. We all need someone to point out that the emperor is wearing no clothes. That's the poet's job.

  

  Arnold Adoff
  • Change
  • Imagination
  • Child

• Many of us are being held hostage by bitterness because we are not willing to give to others what we have been given.

  

  Tony Evans
  • Hostage
  • Held