Kay Arthur Quotes

God is in control and therefore in everything I can give thanks.

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• The mirror to the beautiful is beautiful.

  

  Said Nursi
  • Beautiful
  • Mirror

• I'd like to scale back the television. I'm constantly told that I'm over-exposed, and I don't want to end up like Carol Vorderman.

  

  Jack Whitehall
  • Up
  • Want
  • End

• I am a profound pessimist both about life and about human relations and about politics and ecology. Humans are inadequate and stupid creatures who sooner or later make a mess, and those who are trying to do good do a lot more damage than those who are muddling along.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Trying

• While conducting a conventional war in Iraq and Syria, ISIS has staged terrorist attacks on a global scale against the people from the countries who are fighting ISIS.

  

  Jack Keane
  • People
  • War
  • Fighting

• The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Age
  • Wisdom
  • Grow

• I'm a serious eater and a seriously hungry person, so I set out on that path to figure it out for myself, and of course it really resonated with other people.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • People
  • Myself
  • Serious

• Music has a tremendous effect on me. When it's playing, I can't think or do anything other than listen. But I can write to it.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Music
  • Think
  • Me

• Family and friends and faith are the most important things in your life and you should be building friendships.

  

  Barbara Bush
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.

  

  Daniel A. D'Aniello
  • People
  • Life
  • Society

• I like teaching and the contact with young minds keeps one on one's toes.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Young
  • Minds
  • Toes

• I was still closeted, but from the day I decided to run for office, knowing that I was gay, I decided that I would, of course, still be closeted but that I would work very hard for gay rights. It would be totally dishonorable, being gay, not to do that. So I had that as kind of a secondary agenda.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Work
  • Day
  • Gay

• People in Russia adapt to misery by a deep, deep humor.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • People
  • Deep
  • Humor

• I certainly had no intention of playing a man.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Man
  • Playing
  • Intention

• I'm like a crockpot on low heat. My mind constantly comes up with ideas, but I abandon a lot of them after a week or two. It's the ones that keep coming to me, that keep picking up flavors, that haunt me, those are the ones that wind up getting written.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Ideas

• Like every Southern writer, I thought that I needed to write the next 'Gone With the Wind.'

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Thought
  • Wind
  • Writer

• Spiritual power is the eternal guide, in this life and the life after, for man ranks supreme among all creatures. Led forward by spiritual power, man can reach the summit destined for him by the Great Creator.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • Life
  • Great
  • Power

• All our symbols have the same purpose; words are merely the symbols we use most commonly. The function of words in human thought is to stand for things which are not present to the senses, and allow the mind to manipulate them-things, concepts, ideas, everything that does not have a physical reality in front of us now.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Words

• The goal of human life is not death but resurrection.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • Death

• 20 years on I'm not that interested in charity. I'm interested in justice. There's a difference. Africa needs justice as much as it needs charity. Equality for Africa is a big idea. It's a big expensive idea.

  

  Bono U2
  • Justice
  • Equality
  • Charity

• Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • American
  • Water
  • Golf

• I never really thought about becoming a professional musician.

  

  John Mayall
  • Professional

• Why don't you ever wait a second and see what I'm planning, or thinking, before you burst in with your opinions and ideas? You never even give me a chance.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Thinking
  • Giving
  • Waiting

• God is in control and therefore in everything I can give thanks.

  

  Kay Arthur
  • Giving
  • Thanks