Brian Houston Quotes

Looking at yourself against the size of your dream can quickly become more than anyone can handle. The truth us, the plans God has for you are alwas bigger than you are, and they are never going to be something you can pull off easily and in your own strength.

Brian Houston

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• Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Men
  • Man
  • Purpose

• At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.

  

  Ilan Stavans
  • Cold
  • Grateful
  • Prison

• I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Life
  • Day
  • Best

• I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • Up
  • Time
  • Kind

• Color television! Bah, I won't believe it until I see it in black and white.

  

  Samuel Goldwyn
  • Believe
  • Black
  • Color

• If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Long
  • You
  • Need

• Well, I think that you're looking at it from a theological perspective or a scientific perspective. Answering that question with specificity is above my pay grade. But let me just speak more generally about the issue of abortion, because this is something that obviously the country wrestles with.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Question
  • Perspective

• The poignancy which all beauty has.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham

• Literature is no longer Necessary Teaching is left.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Literature

• I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.

  

  Louisa May Alcott
  • Learning

• I remember-the interruption of the hon. Gentleman reminds me of the words of a great writer, who said that 'Grace was beauty in action.' 'Sir, I say that justice is truth in action. Truth should animate an opposition, and I hope it does animate this opposition.;

  

  Benjamin Disraeli
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Remember

• It's not about Obama, it's about the Democrats and their policies that cause consternation on the right.

  

  Elizabeth A. Sherman

• Non-studio entities can experiment with storytelling that might be too niche... for a studio.

  

  Freddie Wong

• Every time I started going in the direction of thinking how it might turn out, I started to just turn my brain around and not go there, because I think the surest way to guarantee that you won't win is to assume that you will.

  

  Brad Bird
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Brain

• I have had to tell my son, my parents, my friends that I used steroids. It's been very hard. It's been very difficult.

  

  Mark McGwire
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Son

• My songs are like a three-legged dog - you have to get to know them to have any love for them.

  

  Dave Matthews Dave Matthews Band
  • Dog

• My family's from Eastern Europe.

  

  David Sax
  • Family

• If the dinosaurs are any indication, there's a place in our pantheon for the extinct. My son has a blue plushy allosaurus he calls Spot-Spot, with whom he often sleeps.

  

  Lydia Millet
  • Son
  • Blue

• I collaborated on most of my dance numbers, literally 50/50, with the choreographers I worked with.

  

  Jessie Matthews
  • Dance

• It's really an interesting problem, trying to earn a living and serve art and serve kids. What I try to create are these visual layers so that readers feel the possibility exists that there might be something in the book they never saw before.

  

  Peggy Rathmann
  • Trying
  • Art
  • Book

• What are you gonna fill your life up with when you don't have that ultimate satisfaction or peace in your life? You try to fill it up with wealth, pleasure, honor, power, sex, drugs and Rock and Roll to try to feel good.

  

  Dion
  • Trying
  • Feel
  • Honor

• Looking at yourself against the size of your dream can quickly become more than anyone can handle. The truth us, the plans God has for you are alwas bigger than you are, and they are never going to be something you can pull off easily and in your own strength.

  

  Brian Houston
  • God
  • Truth
  • Dream