Carolyn Custis James Quotes

Faith may want answers, but somehow it is able to survive without them.

Carolyn Custis James

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• I don't really measure success by anything other than if I am happy. That is success to me. Am I happy waking up every morning? And despite the challenges of running my own business, do I look forward to going to work? Absolutely.

  

  L'Wren Scott
  • Up
  • Work
  • Business

• You don't have a peaceful revolution. You don't have a turn-the-cheek revolution. There's no such thing as a nonviolent revolution.

  

  Malcolm X
  • You
  • Revolution
  • Peaceful

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Love
  • American
  • Christmas

• There are no plans that always work in life. For me, the secret to happiness is being positive and looking at the brighter side of my life.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Life
  • Work
  • Positive

• None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • World
  • Family
  • School

• Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• God is best known in not knowing him.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • God
  • Best
  • Not Knowing

• I start with an idea that is no more than a paragraph long, and expand it slowly into an outline. But I'm always surprised by the directions things take when I actually start writing.

  

  Barry Schwartz
  • Long
  • Writing
  • Start

• Well I'm not a novelist. I've only written one book and that is a memoir.

  

  Carly Fiorina
  • Book
  • Well
  • Memoir

• I had an acting teacher tell me once that if you're playing a car salesman, you don't want to be an OK car salesman, you want to play the best car salesman.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Best
  • Car
  • Teacher

• Find a way to get a full-body massage every day.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Day
  • Find
  • Everyday

• I love to get on tracks with brothers like Inspectah Deck, Masta Killa, the GZA. The whole crew is golden, man. When you think of us, you gotta say, 'Yo, these are the Jacksons of hip-hop.'

  

  Raekwon
  • Think
  • Man
  • Like

• If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • She

• Reason has discovered the struggle for existence and the law that I must throttle all those who hinder the satisfaction of my desires. That is the deduction reason makes. But the law of loving others could not be discovered by reason, because it is unreasonable.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Law
  • Struggle

• I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

  

  David Byrne Talking Heads
  • People
  • Color
  • Sky

• The brain may be regarded as a kind of parasite of the organism, a pensioner, as it were, who dwells with the body.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • May
  • Brain

• How strange it was that this other woman, this girl-child, should speak of her son so possessively, should speak of his future as if it were her own future.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Future
  • Girl
  • Son

• Michael Jackson will always be my favorite pop musician; he was for years and years until his death, which was horrible to me. So I like pop culture. But to me, even if it's popular, there is a quality in the music you have to be able to appreciate.

  

  Michel Gondry
  • Culture
  • Quality
  • Musician

• That's why it has to be a nonprofit, because a nonprofit is required to take monies it receives and use them for the purposes for which it's chartered by the government. It can't be pocketed.

  

  Mitch Kapor
  • Government
  • Purposes
  • Required

• I ask you, people who care about the soul of Ukraine, those who want to preserve the heart, the spirit and the faith of our country for future generations, to please defend it.

  

  Yulia Tymoshenko
  • People
  • Country
  • Heart

• Faith may want answers, but somehow it is able to survive without them.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • Faith
  • Answers
  • Survive