Sam Childers Quotes
I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
Quotes to Explore
-
While hereditary chiefs inhabit the apex of our traditional social systems, it would be a mistake to think they hold all the power. They aren't kings. They aren't dictators. They're answerable to their clans and their matriarchs. All decisions that affect our communities require lengthy, deliberate discussions and careful negotiation.
-
I believe there are more films that involve love and forgiveness than violence, but they often seem fake and are almost embarrassing to watch.
-
We have to embrace the good over the bad. That has to be one's personal project.
-
I am such a do-goody, people-pleasing kid - or I was - I don't think I've ever been fired, not even from an ice cream shop, magician for kids' parties, not even in my early jobs in radio.
-
I found one had to do some work every day, even at midnight, because either you're professional or you're not.
-
Michael Jackson wanted to be in Men in Black II. He told me he had seen the first Men in Black in Paris and had stayed behind and sat there and wept. I had to explain to him that it was a comedy.
-
I got lost one time for a couple hours. It was pretty bad. I got lost in a creek, and I couldn't find my way back. The cops even had to come.
-
It's hard because people often don't recognise shyness; they think it's just someone being rude. I have had to work to overcome that, especially if I'm meeting my readers at author events, because I don't want them to think I'm snooty or rude.
-
I am so in tune with my body that I know how it should feel.
-
I want the news delivered unbiased. I thought that was the whole point with journalism.
-
The biggest critics of my books are people who never read them.
-
I was a horrible athlete.
-
I am prepared to die, but there is no cause for which I am prepared to kill.
-
Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
-
People tend to treat people with disabilities sort of like they're aliens from another planet. It doesn't come from a bad place; it comes from a place of, 'I have no idea what this disability entails, and I don't want to offend anyone or make them feel awful.'
-
If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
-
I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
-
I cannot cure myself of that most woeful of youth's follies - thinking that those who care about us will care for the things that mean much to us.
-
You're supposed to have a passionate purpose as a CEO.
-
Well, youth is the period of assumed personalities and disguises. It is the time of the sincerely insincere.
-
When I'm off the golf course, and my wife and I have free time, which is not very often, we really enjoy movies. I'm a movie nut; she might even be more so. Holiday in our house is the Oscars.
-
I attended an evangelical Christian university on the outskirts of suburban Los Angeles and by the time of my graduation was neither evangelical nor Christian.
-
Italian cameramen grow up immersed in an awareness of light. It is part of their mythology.
-
I tell people all the time, 'Don't give up.' We get almost to our blessing, whether you believe spiritually in God or in a good force and an evil force. We get almost to our blessing, and we quit. Don't stop.
