Arthur W. Pink Quotes
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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I love to fly so much.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
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Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.
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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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I got to get your presence Let's make it known I think you're just so pleasant I would like you for my own
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Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.
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The impulse patterns which carried creatures star to star were almost instantaneous, no matter what the distance.He stood and thought about it and it still was hard, he admitted to himself, for a person to believe.
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Though there were over 200 policemen standing around, none of them made a move to grab him.
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While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.
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I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all for reading through the Bible. But how much of that got on the inside, or did they just cover three more chapters today? I would never discredit reading the Scriptures, but it is important to meditate on it.
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Something like 'Psycho,' which is this psychological thing that slowly, slowly, slowly builds, and actually it's a much more powerful reaction you have when it assumes that you're intelligent as you're watching it. I want them to make me believe that whatever's happening could really happen, and then it becomes much more frightening.
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I think there's nothing better in the world than a spirited discussion about the Bible and Jesus and God and the Catholic faith, or the Jewish faith, or the Muslim faith - any religion.
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Governments that try to shoot for a surplus hardly ever reach it.
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A timid mind is apt to mistake every scratch for a mortal wound.
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New Year's Eve was always a big occasion at home with the family. Every year we would get the karaoke machine out and I'd entertain everyone, even as a young kid.
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Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
