Winkie Pratney Quotes

Many do not recognize the call of God simply because they have never taken the time to really talk with Him long enough to know what He is like.

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• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
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  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• How can you not love a man banging on the drums? He knows how to keep a rhythm.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Man
  • Knows
  • Keep

• Nobody talks about how Puffy went to Howard University or about Lil Wayne attending the University of Houston. All the young kids know is what they see on the videos. They don't realize that these guys have taken managerial and business courses, and know how to brand and how to market themselves. They're very smart.

  

  Yolanda Adams
  • Business
  • Kids
  • Taken

• I worry that we're not getting enough of the news that we need to make informed judgments as citizens.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Worry
  • Enough
  • News

• Take away the contests of the martyrs, and you have taken away their crowns.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • You
  • Taken
  • Take

• Hollywood is where they shoot too many pictures and not enough actors.

  

  Walter Winchell
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• An anxious unrest, a fierce craving desire for gain has taken possession of the commercial world, and in instances no longer rare the most precious and permanent goods of human life have been madly sacrificed in the interests of momentary enrichment.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Life
  • World
  • Desire

• It's clearly more important to treat one's fellow man well than to be always praying and fasting and touching one's head to a prayer mat.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Important
  • Man
  • Prayer

• In some sense, when you take a child soldier out of an armed group, you've taken away the identity he or she has had for years, and you can't assume life is just going to return to normal.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Life
  • Taken
  • Child

• Whenever you have taken up work in hand, you must see it to the finish. That is the ultimate secret of success. Never, never, never give up!

  

  Dada Vaswani
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• The real being of language is that into which we are taken up when we hear it - what is said.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
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• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Prayer
  • Self
  • Strength

• Show me a Scorsese film, and I'll show you a movie where he's taken risks. It's just his nature. He's an artist, and artists take risks. He always does what he believes in.

  

  Irwin Winkler
  • Movie
  • Nature
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• We're living in what I like to call the 'Thank You Economy,' because only the companies that can figure out how to mind their manners in a very old-fashioned way - and do it authentically - are going to have a prayer of competing.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Mind
  • Prayer
  • Thank You

• No one knows what women want!

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Women
  • Want
  • Knows

• Don't take the wrong side of an argument just because your opponent has taken the right side.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
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• It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Time
  • Feeling

• Let us pray...Oh, uh, please don't feel like you can't participate if you're not Christian, because this is a prayer for all faiths...

  

  Bo Burnham
  • Christian
  • Prayer

• My own idea is that if the men hold any meetings or attempt to form any organization, we should be prepared to be fully informed of all that goes on and unhesitatingly discharge any men connected with this movement. In this way, our peace will be secure for a long time, and it will be easily done if taken at the start.

  

  Charles M. Schwab
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• To say that 'prayer changes things' is not as close to the truth as saying, 'prayer changes me and then I change things.' God has established things so that prayer, on the basis of redemption, changes the way a person looks at things.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Truth
  • Prayer

• God wills to be displayed and known and loved and cherished and worshiped.

  

  John Piper
  • God
  • Loved
  • Displayed

• My main aim has always been to do good quality films with roles that have some substance. With Power and Beauty there were loads of things that I liked about the movie, which made me opt for it.

  

  Natasha Henstridge
  • Good
  • Power
  • Movie

• Provided that any of those neighbours sing out of tune or have boots that squeak, or double chins, or odd clothes, the patient will quite easily believe that their religion must therefore be somehow ridiculous.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Believe

• Many do not recognize the call of God simply because they have never taken the time to really talk with Him long enough to know what He is like.

  

  Winkie Pratney
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  • Prayer
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