Daniel Wallace Quotes

It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

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• I've learned in my life that it's important to be able to step outside your comfort zone and be challenged with something you're not familiar or accustomed to. That challenge will allow you to see what you can do.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Important
  • Challenge

• For a long time, I've been interested in cultural memory and historical erasure.

  

  Natasha Trethewey
  • Time
  • Long
  • Memory

• The World Bank can only survive if it's spending money.

  

  Dambisa Moyo
  • World
  • Money
  • Survive

• I'm consistently telling stories about the value of the human condition and connectedness and things like that.

  

  J. H. Wyman
  • Value
  • Things
  • Human

• All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
  • You
  • Well

• England is a nation of shopkeepers.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Nation
  • England

• If apartheid is removed, then the violence that is necessary to maintain it will be removed along with the pressures from apartheid which create a violent response.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Violence
  • Create
  • Will

• What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

  

  Galen Rowell
  • World
  • Mind
  • Philosophy

• It's important to wallow and grieve when you have a health issue. I don't think you really get the best stuff out of life until you've had the worst stuff.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Important
  • Health

• Get to know your kids' minds and how they think.

  

  Gail Carson Levine
  • Kids
  • Think
  • Know

• Although I now spend most of my time writing novels for teenagers and adults, 'readaloudability' is still a criterion I try to adhere to.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Try

• I'm terrified about psychic people who have their little shops. I always walk across the street and go somewhere else. Imagine if one of them came out with their face all pale and said, 'Hurry up and enjoy yourself.' No one wants to know that.

  

  Mads Mikkelsen
  • People
  • Up
  • Enjoy

• When you're watching television, you don't want to watch a show where everything just works out. You don't want to see a relationship that's just blossoming and everyone's happy and sunshine and roses all the time. That's also not true in life.

  

  Candice Accola
  • Life
  • Time
  • True

• As an actor, I have casting issues. I'm a minority. I don't have trouble making a living, but as far as being on the food chain of the pecking order of actors, I'm not at the top of it. With the jobs that I do, there are always control issues with directors and producers.

  

  B. D. Wong
  • Food
  • Control
  • Living

• You don't get happy by sitting around going on, 'Oh this is a horrible situation, what to do?' You've got to find the courage to change that. I think change is extremely hard for people.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Happy
  • Change

• I am always acting, be at a party, at work or in office. My attitude changes from meeting to meeting, from being serious to intense to funny, depending on who is in the room.

  

  Karan Johar
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Party

• I have maintained that the people of India are ahead of their governments. The people of India are at least 10 to 15 years ahead of their governments.

  

  P. Chidambaram
  • People
  • India
  • Ahead

• We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Up
  • Mind
  • Special

• But it turns out its not a big deal. The imports help, but not significantly.

  

  Ed Sullivan
  • Help
  • Deal
  • Imports

• Listen, just do what you think is right, and we'll support it." ~ Sticky Washington, The Prisoner's Dilemma

  

  Trenton Lee Stewart
  • Support
  • Prisoner
  • Dilemma

• Tis rushing now adown the spout, And gushing out below, Half frantic in its joyousness, And wild in eager flow. The earth is dried and parched with heat, And it hath long'd to be Released from out the selfish cloud, To cool the thirsty tree.

  

  Elizabeth Oakes Smith
  • Tree
  • Rushing
  • Released

• Senegal needs a renaissance.

  

  Youssou N'Dour
  • Needs
  • Renaissance

• It would be better for us to have some doubts in an honest pursuit of truth, than it would be for us to be certain about something that was not true.

  

  Daniel Wallace
  • Something
  • Would
  • Pursuit