Carolyn Custis James Quotes

The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

Carolyn Custis James

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• I have great respect for children. And I have great respect for their ability as writers.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Children
  • Respect

• The most important thing is to just be good at what you do. You do a good job playing the character, and people will be taken up with your character, not your clothes.

  

  Victoria Pratt
  • People
  • Up
  • Good

• When I learned that flour pound for pound has as many calories as sugar, and that when eating pasta you're basically eating cake, I was size 23, and my neck was restricting my breathing, and so I got on a microbiotic diet and got myself an exercise bike.

  

  Caitlin Moran
  • Myself
  • Exercise
  • Bike

• I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Learning
  • Road
  • English

• I have a lot of faults. I often interrupt in meetings. I talk too loud. I talk too fast.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • Talk
  • Meetings
  • Fast

• I had people at Perrysburg High School in my life in Perrysburg who believed in me and told me I could do anything I wanted too, and I foolishly believed them.

  

  Sam Jaeger
  • People
  • Life
  • School

• I always figured it was best if I write my songs, take them to my publisher and just lay back. There used to be so many things going on - getting to the artist, getting to the publishers - you know, politics. I just didn't want to get mixed up in all of that.

  

  Otis Blackwell
  • Up
  • Best
  • Artist

• Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Facts
  • Numbers
  • Belong

• I'm only at the beginning of my career, but I feel successful in that I haven't sold out in any way, shape or form. I feel good about the choices I've made, and I don't feel like I've let go of any of my values.

  

  Zoe Kravitz
  • Good
  • Career
  • Beginning

• With men, we blame the victim. We blame men because we have camouflaged men’s victimization by teaching men to also be the victimizer. Men’s victimizer status camouflages men’s victim status.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men

• The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Power
  • Society
  • Taken

• It is in vain to dream of a wildness distant from ourselves.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Dream

• I think the first concert I attended was Coldplay with my dad when I was around eight years old.

  

  Grace Martine Tandon
  • Dad

• When I do period work, I really like to read about the period as much as I like to look at pictures because sometimes the written word is much better at conveying what their lives were really like and how much they had and where their clothes came from. Because, a lot of time, people dressed in their Sunday best to pose for a picture.

  

  Colleen Atwood
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Australians and the British are very similar: If you try and stand out in any way, and you try to reach for success, someone is gonna be there to cut you down.

  

  Joel Edgerton
  • Success

• 'House of a Thousand Corpses' by Rob Zombie - I love that movie. I really do.

  

  Emory Cohen
  • Movie
  • House

• The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

  

  James Randi
  • Age

• Most performers don't get a chance to sing in Los Angeles.

  

  Nell Carter

• I'd like to jump out of a plane. I have a fear of heights I'd like to face.

  

  Freida Pinto
  • Fear
  • Jump

• The script is the bible. If you imagine setting off on an adventure in a canoe, the script is the strong arms that shove you out into the stream. It is the map of where you are going.

  

  Paul Williams The Temptations
  • Strong
  • Bible
  • Imagine

• The world is a penal institution.

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • World
  • Institution

• If you look at slavery across all human history, and you sort of strip away the packaging, whether it's racialized or religious-based, and you look at the actual core of the slavery, it's one person completely controlling another one.

  

  Kevin Bales
  • History
  • Religious
  • Slavery

• We may have revolved every possible idea in our minds, and yet the truth has never occurred to us, and it is from without, when we are least expecting it, that it gives us its cruel stab and wounds us forever.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Truth
  • Wounds
  • Possible Idea

• The Bible doesn't speak of "women's rights" in the social-political language we're used to hearing today. Still, that doesn't mean the Bible is silent on the subject.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • Bible
  • Women's Rights