Wendelin Van Draanen Quotes
There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.
Quotes to Explore
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What Washington needs is adult supervision.
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Should the time come when the county family will be taken away, then the parish will feel for some time like a mouth from which a molar has been drawn - there will be a vacancy that will cause unrest and discomfort.
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Jesus was not denying the legitimacy of biblical law. On the contrary, He was affirming biblical law. We love God first; God commands us to keep His word; therefore, we must enforce the law on ourselves.
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Each dress symbolizes the age that it's appropriate for.
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For prayer is nothing else than being on terms of friendship with God.
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The true character of ministry is a servants heart.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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I'm never away from my boys for more than three days.
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Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.
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I had to learn to not be so hard. And I had a wife and, at that time, a partner when Samori was born, and for most of Samori's life, a partner, who, for whatever reason, did not have to learn that and was very tender and very, very soft with him.
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You do a job; your show gets canceled. You get used to it.
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Comedians have to write to survive because you don't get cast for your beauty.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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Everyone wants to psychoanalyze me. I don't know why.
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Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
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Where I live, nobody who's fourteen is having sex and doing major drugs. And I think if you see it in the movies, you may be influenced by it. I think it's so important to preserve your innocence.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I grew up with 'Star Trek,' so to get to do anything in it was fun for me.
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Seeing a man praying to Allah is enough for some people to assume he is a terrorist.
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Live with your memories and keep them as memories and that’s great. Forget the bad times just remember the good ones and you know and hope tomorrow is a good day.
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Both the aphorism and the poem channel man’s wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed.
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You can never study Franklin Delano Roosevelt too much.
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I studied English at Princeton in the early eighties in what I consider a period of high obscurity. Professors and students ran around discussing the work of critics and philosophers that I doubt they'd read or understood.
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There are certain things I believe we need to keep in our emotional arsenal as we navigate through life. Hope is a big one. The more of that we can carry, the better.
