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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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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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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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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For me, soccer was a dance.
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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We often compare the experience of writing a book to that of playing God. It is up to us, and only us, to determine what happens to the people we invent. It is for us alone to determine what is good and bad, just and unjust, appropriate and inappropriate for the worlds we create. I love that about writing books.
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I do not believe it is all about the leader. I think it's about the team, too. So we have one mission; we have one team; we are working to victory.
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Open your arms to life! Let it strut into your heart in all its messy glory!
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Sometimes we look for those thunderous things to happen in our life for our lives to change or go in the other direction. We seek the miracle. We seek the parting of the seas, the moving of the mountains. But no, it's a quiet thing. At least for me it was.
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One of the things I was taught in law school is that I'd never be able to think the same again - that being a lawyer is something that's part of who I am as an individual now.
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It is not wrong to be different. Sometimes it is hard, but it is not wrong.
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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.
