Charles Grandison Finney Quotes

Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.

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• To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Fun
  • Gay
  • Pride

• But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.

  

  Dabney Coleman
  • Acting
  • Teaching
  • Profession

• Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • May
  • Christmas
  • Birds

• A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Women
  • Strong
  • Lost

• Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • May
  • Attractive
  • Toxic

• Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.

  

  Aaron Tveit
  • Time
  • You
  • Doing

• Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Home
  • She
  • House

• Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.

  

  Flea Jane's Addiction
  • Me
  • Rock
  • Star

• I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed.

  

  Andrea McLean
  • Kids
  • Shopping

• Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.

  

  Alex Berenson
  • Time
  • Vacation

• If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein

• Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.

  

  Leroy Chiao
  • Work
  • Great
  • Different

• Healthcare in the U.S. remains a dire mess, and the Obama presidency, unfortunately, didn't really address that.

  

  David Garrow
  • Health care

• I think for anything to be successful, your problems have to become different problems over time.

  

  Jason Isbell
  • Time
  • Different

• I'm not very complicated.

  

  Joe Torre

• Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.

  

  Blake Lively
  • Different
  • Famous

• Let me talk about what the banks are doing, and I think the banks have been working to make sure that, as much as possible, we move the currency to the smaller areas and to as many set of customers as possible.

  

  Chanda Kochhar

• They will have the World to be in Large, what a Watch is in Small; which is very regular, and depends only upon the just disposing of the several Parts of the Movement.

  

  Bernard Le Bovier de Fontenelle
  • World
  • Movement
  • Disposing

• I think being in a place where there is nothing happening is very inspiring because you have to make your own fun, you are not reliant on imitating any other bands.

  

  Kate Pierson
  • Thinking
  • Very
  • Inspiring

• Understanding your employee's perspective can go a long way towards increasing productivity and happiness.

  

  Kathryn Minshew
  • Long
  • Understanding
  • Perspective

• I would rather win souls than be the greatest king or emperor on earth; I would rather win souls than be the greatest general that ever commanded an army; I would rather win souls than be the greatest poet, or novelist, or literary man who ever walked the earth. My one ambition in life is to win as many as possible.

  

  R. A. Torrey
  • Life
  • Earth
  • Christian

• Let a bill, or law, be read, in the one branch or the other, every one instantly thinks how it will affect his constituents.

  

  Ezra Stiles
  • Law
  • Bill
  • Constituents

• Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Moving
  • Prayer
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