Carol Kent Quotes

A heart sacrifice is not a formula that can be mastered. It is a decision that is intrinsically tied to the personal relationship between us and our God.

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• Virtue knows that it is impossible to get on without compromise, and tunes herself, as it were, a trifle sharp to allow for an inevitable fall in playing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Fall
  • Impossible
  • Compromise

• Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Long
  • May
  • Think

• The man who promises everything is sure to fulfil nothing, and everyone who promises too much is in danger of using evil means in order to carry out his promises, and is already on the road to perdition.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Evil
  • Road

• In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.

  

  Pat Summerall
  • Up
  • Free
  • Football

• I want to work for myself, and I do work for myself. I make plenty of money working for myself.

  

  Adam Carolla
  • Work
  • Money
  • Myself

• And I think the female creative urge is intrinsically biologically linked to our ability to give birth to a child, even if we've never... I've never given birth, but I feel like it's part of our psychology.

  

  Zoe Kazan
  • Think
  • Child
  • Creative

• I'm on a single track here - I work to direct what I want to see onstage. I basically have been feeding my own needs - to be working on a specific project at a specific time, and fortunately more often it works than fails.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Time
  • Work
  • Want

• What I like about graduation speeches is that they're an opportunity for someone to make sense of their life and to impart that wisdom to someone else. It's like a sanctioned self-help moment.

  

  Bruce Eric Kaplan
  • Life
  • Help
  • Opportunity

• Japan and Hawaii already have strong economic, cultural and education ties, and we intend to build upon those ties and relationships as we look toward the future.

  

  David Ige
  • Future
  • Strong
  • Education

• I love watching reality TV, but being part of making it was just demoralizing.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Reality

• I don't like the vampire books. I don't like any of those.

  

  Lisi Harrison
  • Vampire

• What helped me was I had people around me to remind me to help my country even when it did me wrong, have respect for my people, my family, my nation and mankind.

  

  Alexis Arguello
  • People
  • Country
  • Family

• Generally speaking, we as black people have been celebrated more for when we are subservient when we are not being leaders or kings or in the center of our own narrative driving it forward.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Black
  • Driving

• I had my guitar at the set of 'Lost in Space' every day. I was the only one in the cast who had a stereo in his dressing room. So while I was in school or when I was in there working with Dr. Smith and the robot, half the rest of the cast was in my trailer listening to their records that they would bring.

  

  Bill Mumy
  • School
  • Lost
  • Space

• I wasn't allowed to go to movies when I was kid; my father was a minister. 101 Dalmatians and King of Kings, that was the extent of it.

  

  Denzel Washington
  • Father
  • King

• The great doctors all got their education off dirt pavements and poverty - not marble floors and foundations.

  

  Martin H. Fischer
  • Great
  • Education
  • Poverty

• I went to Jersey City State College to please a family member. I wasn't prepared for school. To say I failed out is putting it nicely.

  

  Derek Luke
  • School
  • Family
  • City

• People are worms, and even the God who created them is immensely bored with their antics.

  

  Ama Ata Aidoo
  • People
  • God
  • Bored

• I am a voracious reader, so it's difficult for me to give a list of my favourite authors of all time.

  

  Amish Tripathi
  • Time

• When I lived in Delhi, it was burdened with so many futures - fast roads, malls, flyovers - that one felt almost obliged to be hopeful. Now that hope has diminished, you can feel the city going into a frenzy to reinvent itself. I miss living there.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Hope
  • City
  • Roads

• I'm only stopped by people in uniform, whether it's customs people, janitors, or the FBI - they all watch 'The Wire.' Sadly, beautiful, glamorous women don't know anything about it.

  

  Dominic West
  • People
  • Women
  • Beautiful

• Worthless is the nation that does not gladly stake its all on its honor.

  

  Friedrich Schiller
  • Honor

• But it is always a challenge to commercialize those inventions.

  

  Craig Mundie
  • Challenge
  • Inventions
  • Commercialize

• A heart sacrifice is not a formula that can be mastered. It is a decision that is intrinsically tied to the personal relationship between us and our God.

  

  Carol Kent