Charles Grandison Finney Quotes

A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.

Charles Grandison Finney

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• I've leased the apartment; my partner is going to come out here. But we're keeping our house in Chicago because real estate is a really good investment and also because it is just crammed with full of stuff!

  

  Ted Allen
  • Good
  • Real
  • House

• Dissent is the native activity of the scientist, and it has got him into a good deal of trouble in the last years. But if that is cut off, what is left will not be a scientist. And I doubt whether it will be a man.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Good
  • Man
  • Doubt

• Learning is what most adults will do for a living in the 21st century.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • Learning
  • Living
  • Will

• The term 'personal ambition' immediately puts me off. It feels like finding a sliver of onion in my ice cream. There's nothing wrong with a sliver of onion, but I don't want it in my ice cream.

  

  Maggie Rowe
  • Me
  • Ambition
  • Personal

• I'm such a big TLC fan, so I love singing 'Waterfalls' in the shower.

  

  Becky G
  • Singing
  • Big
  • Shower

• Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • God
  • Man
  • Almighty

• Our choices are going to determine the future for our children, our children's children, and their children. I take that responsibility very seriously.

  

  Maggie Q
  • Children
  • Future
  • Responsibility

• I didn't realize it. It looks like my career happened overnight, but it didn't. I was basically living on my own from when I was 17 on.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Career
  • Living
  • Realize

• I started doing comedy with no plan to do voice work. Voice work came as a function of doing comedy and meeting people who eventually develop shows like that. I didn't seek out from an early age to be on cartoons.

  

  H. Jon Benjamin
  • People
  • Work
  • Age

• Before high school ended, I started applying to college. It really wasn't even a choice because of the brainwashing of my parents.

  

  Tatyana Ali
  • School
  • High
  • Parents

• When in doubt, I read Oscar Wilde.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Doubt

• The only way you're going to have a good relationship with anyone is to have a good relationship with yourself.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Good
  • Relationship

• The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.

  

  Daniel Ellsberg
  • American
  • War
  • Fool

• In response to a question about what 'keeps her up at night', I worry about the fact that in K-12 education I can look at your zip code and tell whether or not you're going to get a good education.

  

  Condoleezza Rice
  • Up
  • Good
  • Night

• Being Queen is a profession, a job, a position, an office that one cannot put aside when you come home from work. It is there all the time - and it is there all your life.

  

  Margrethe II of Denmark
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I was in romantic relationships with girls - whatever that means at 14.

  

  Matt Bomer
  • Romantic

• I'd like to think that I'm getting slightly more mature as time goes on, but I don't know if my fiancee would necessarily agree.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Time

• For minority actors, developing our own projects has to be the eventual path. We have a lot of stories to tell and a really unique voice. But none of that is going to be heard as long as we're just the hired hands, acting.

  

  Jimmy Smits
  • Long
  • Path
  • Unique

• I'm desperately trying to unplug. The last thing I want is a watch that connects to my phone which connects to my iPad that connects to my computer that airplays to my TV.

  

  Kerby Jean-Raymond
  • Trying

• In 1984, when I was a rookie member of the House, there was a bill introduced to make Martin Luther King's birthday a state holiday. It didn't have a chance. As time passed, though, more and more states adopted the holiday. Finally, after about five years, we passed it and, I think, almost unanimously. As I said, change is slow and hard.

  

  John Grisham
  • Time
  • House
  • King

• People are just like farm equipment. They rust out quicker than they wear out.

  

  Colonel Sanders
  • People
  • Equipment
  • Quicker

• I like jazz, rock n' roll, some hip hop - I can't think of any music I don't like.

  

  B. B. King
  • Music
  • Rock
  • Jazz

• A state of mind that sees God in everything is evidence of growth in grace and a thankful heart.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Growth