Rick Warren Quotes

You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.

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• A happy wife is a happy life.

  

  Gavin Rossdale Bush
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Wife

• Milos said, You're my first choice. From my point of view, that doesn't pay the rent. I said, Tell me what I have to do next because I'm busy painting my kitchen.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Painting
  • Kitchen
  • Busy

• In the mess of moving from place to place, I skipped two grades in the space of one year.

  

  Tea Obreht
  • Space
  • Moving
  • Year

• When I was young, about 18 or 19, I read all the Dostoyevsky novels, which made me want to go to St. Petersburg. So I went, and I was so inspired.

  

  Tadashi Shoji
  • Want
  • Me
  • Inspired

• After graduating high school, Betty attended the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, the alma mater of both her parents. My mother relocated to New York because she refused to accept the oppressive racism of the Jim Crow south.

  

  Ilyasah Shabazz
  • Mother
  • Parents
  • Racism

• Give a man a free hand and he'll run it all over you.

  

  Mae West
  • Man
  • Free
  • Hand

• The only reason to be in politics is public service. There's no other reason. Frankly, if that's the best job you can get in terms of money, that's too bad, you know. Because frankly, it's not well paid, everyone knows that. So for most people it's a big sacrifice.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • People
  • Money
  • Job

• When Corporate America finds a Jayson Blair in its midst, the standard operating procedure is to circle the wagons and deny that any form of liability extends up the chain of command.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Up
  • America
  • Circle

• The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Economy
  • More
  • Economists

• The focus of subjectivity is a distorting mirror.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Focus
  • Mirror
  • Subjectivity

• I always wanted to be an actor, but my top three favorite actors of all time are Al Pacino, James Dean and Philip Seymour Hoffman.

  

  Dane DeHaan
  • Time
  • Always
  • Three

• Why are fish unsustainable? Because they're popular. What makes restaurants work? Popular dishes that people come back for.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • People
  • Work
  • Why

• At the upper echelon of musicians in general, I guess performers in general, you have to have this kind of live-or-die, cutthroat mentality.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • Live
  • You
  • Die

• Be a creator of circumstances rather than just a creature of circumstances. Be proactive rather than reactive.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Circumstances
  • Creatures
  • Creator

• Good speakers usually find when they finish that there have been four versions of the speech: the one they delivered, the one they prepared, the one the newspapers say was delivered, and the one on the way home they wish they had delivered.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Good
  • Home
  • Wish

• If measure and symmetry are absent from any composition in any degree, ruin awaits both the ingredients and the composition... Measure and symmetry are beauty and virtue the world over.

  

  Socrates
  • World
  • Beauty
  • Virtue

• Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ or a place other than heaven, we become idolaters. According to Scripture, materialism is not only evil; it is tragic and pathetic.

  

  Randy Alcorn
  • God
  • Attempt
  • Materialism

• I think it's very important to have a sense of balance in covering the war, but you don't have to be morally neutral about terrorism.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Important
  • War
  • Balance

• Hollywood isn't ready for an Indian leading man.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Man
  • Hollywood
  • Ready

• A wiser rule would be to make up your mind soberly what you want, peace or war, and then to get ready for what you want; for what we prepare for is what we shall get.

  

  William Graham Sumner
  • Mind
  • War
  • Decision

• You're not really ready to live unless you know what you're willing to die for.

  

  Rick Warren
  • Ready
  • Willing