Catherine Ponder Quotes

Just as it is necessary to breathe out regularly in order to receive fresh air into the lungs, so it is necessary to give regularly if we wish to receive regularly.

Catherine Ponder

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• I'm blind without my glasses.

  

  Adam Ant Adam and the Ants
  • Blind
  • Without
  • Glasses

• My favorite weekend activity is riding bikes to breakfast.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Breakfast
  • Weekend
  • Favorite

• What's hardest for me to swallow is when there is a love story, say, with a really high-profile male star and there's no reason I can't play the part. They say, 'Oh, we love Halle, we just don't want to go black with this part.'

  

  Halle Berry
  • Reason
  • Star
  • Story

• The teachers are trying to build the same culture in the classroom as we're building in the organization.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Trying
  • Culture
  • Organization

• Innovation comes from the producer - not from the customer.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Innovation
  • Customer

• If something is successful with the audience, it's automatically suspect; the reverse is to say that not to reach audiences is the greatest compliment an artist can receive!

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Artist
  • Successful
  • Greatest

• God drove Cain out of his presence and sent him into exile far away from his native land, so that he passed from a life of human kindness to one which was more akin to the rude existence of a wild beast.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Life
  • God
  • Kindness

• I think that all artists, regardless of degree of talent, are a painful, paradoxical combination of certainty and uncertainty, of arrogance and humility, constantly in need of reassurance, and yet with a stubborn streak of faith in their own validity no matter what.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Faith
  • Humility

• America, I know the road will be long, but I know we can get there. Yes, we will stumble, but I know we’ll get back up. That’s how a movement happens. That’s how history bends. That's how when somebody is faint of heart, somebody else brings them along and says, come on, we’re marching.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Long
  • Heart

• Whatever withdraws us from the power of our senses; whatever makes the past, the distant, or the future predominate over the present, advances us in the dignity of thinking beings.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Thinking
  • Power
  • Future

• Sometimes people carry to such perfection the mask they have assumed that in due course they actually become the person they seem.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • People

• I thought I should be a fool to allow work to interfere with a delight in the passing moment that I might never enjoy again so fully.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Work
  • Fool

• No one has ever suggested that tax exemption has converted libraries, art galleries, or hospitals into arms of the state or employees 'on the public payroll.' There is no genuine nexus between tax exemption and establishment of religion.

  

  Warren E. Burger
  • Art

• Pay attention to how we move things

  

  Fetty Wap
  • Attention

• He resembled a minor prophet who had been hit behind the ear with a stuffed eel-skin.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• The place of the father in the modern suburban family is a very small one – particularly if he plays golf, which he usually does.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Family
  • Father
  • Small

• One of my clearest impressions about India as a child was that my parents' stories would have been impossible had they stayed. Of course, such a vision was self-serving, for it made a virtue of our displacement.

  

  Anand Giridharadas
  • Parents
  • Vision

• There are three critical ingredients to democratic renewal and progressive change in America: good public policy, grassroots organizing and electoral politics.

  

  Paul Wellstone
  • Good
  • America

• I never thought I'd be an expert at sword fighting, I never thought I'd be an expert in protein powders - I'm close to being an expert in both. It's great!

  

  Liam McIntyre
  • Great
  • Fighting

• Beauty, midnight, vision dies: Let the winds of dawn that blow Softly round your dreaming head Such a day of welcome show Eye and knocking heart may bless, Find our mortal world enough; Noons of dryness find you fed By the involuntary powers, Nights of insult let you pass Watched by every human love.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • World
  • Heart
  • May

• The Sun never sets. It is we who rise think to shine.

  

  Earle Birney
  • Sun
  • Rise
  • Sets

• I'm not a fan of any genre but am a fan of movies that are intelligent and/or funny. That goes across all genres: a horror movie, a zombie movie, alien invaders, chick flick, or raunchy comedy. If it's well done, I'm a fan.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Done
  • Movie
  • Funny

• My daughters all have aunties who help out. It takes a village.

  

  Jodie Sweetin
  • Help

• Just as it is necessary to breathe out regularly in order to receive fresh air into the lungs, so it is necessary to give regularly if we wish to receive regularly.

  

  Catherine Ponder
  • Wish
  • Air
  • Order