Winkie Pratney Quotes

No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.

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• A spiritual partnership is a partnership between equals for the purpose of spiritual growth. Spiritual partners use their delightful experiences together as well as their power struggles to learn about themselves and change themselves.

  

  Gary Zukav
  • Power
  • Together
  • Change

• I'm proud to support Secretary Clinton.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Support
  • Proud
  • Secretary

• When I was 17, I worked in a mentoring program in Harlem designed to improve the community. That's when I first gained an appreciation of the Harlem Renaissance, a time when African-Americans rose to prominence in American culture. For the first time, they were taken seriously as artists, musicians, writers, athletes, and as political thinkers.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Time
  • American
  • Political

• I'm not interested in celebrity.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Celebrity
  • Not Interested

• In America, we have the feeling of the doomed young artist. Fitzgerald was the great example of that.

  

  Irwin Shaw
  • Great
  • America
  • Feeling

• In 'The Violinist's Thumb,' I talk about the poignancy of cells leaking across the placenta into both the mother and the child.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Mother
  • Child
  • Talk

• The best of men cannot suspend their fate: The good die early, and the bad die late.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Good
  • Men
  • Bad

• To play vinyl onstage is not my thing. For me, vinyl is for home listening.

  

  Lodewijk Fluttert
  • Home
  • Listening

• He is nothing more than one of my pawns. However, he is not a normal pawn. He is a pawn that can get across the whole board in one move.

  

  Yana Toboso
  • Moving
  • Boards
  • Pawns

• The lunatic is all idée fixe, and whatever he comes across confirms his lunacy. You can tell him by the liberties he takes with common sense, by his flashes of inspiration, and by the fact that sooner or later he brings up the Templars.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Inspiration
  • Liberty
  • Common Sense

• Agreeing to draws in the middlegame, equal or otherwise, deprives you of the opportunity to practice playing endgames, and the endgame is probably where you need the most practice.

  

  Pal Benko
  • Opportunity
  • Practice
  • Needs

• In the treatment of the child the world foreshadows its own future and faith. All words and all thinking lead to the child, - to that vast immortality and wide sweep of infinite possibility which the child represents.

  

  W. E. B. Du Bois
  • World
  • Thinking
  • Children

• I sought my soul, but my soul I could not see. I sought my God, but my God eluded me. I sought my brother and I found all three.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • God
  • Soul
  • Brother

• O constancy, be strong upon my side, Set a huge mountain 'tween my heart and tongue! I have a man's mind, but a woman's might.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Strong

• I played without fear. I've done that since I first kicked a ball in my back garden as a five-year-old, whether it's been my first game, my 100th game, or my 500th game.

  

  Eden Hazard
  • Done
  • Game
  • Fear

• Death is a slave's freedom.

  

  Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr.
  • Slavery
  • Slave

• No matter what sort of adversity or challenge you might face, you can always believe that, with hope, it can be conquered and, in the end, you will be stronger for it.

  

  Brooke Ellison
  • Challenge
  • Face
  • Adversity

• I'm probably writing music now for the same reason as I started writing songs when I was 14 - to meet women.

  

  Billy Joel
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Women

• No matter how high the powers of reason, no matter how deep the intellect, no one can discover God's secret messages without paying the cost of true discipleship.

  

  Winkie Pratney
  • Reason
  • Secret
  • Intellect