T. D. Jakes Quotes
Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think I've had the longest career of strength, focus, and still being able to sell records. I think I'm that guy. I'm still blessed with the opportunity to make music and pass out a message like, 'Life is good,' to the world.
-
High heels weren't always a girl thing. In the fifteen-hundreds, the riding shoes of French noblemen were fitted with raised heels so that their feet stayed put in the stirrups. Over the next few decades, heels inched higher on dress shoes, particularly among men of privilege.
-
Let my soul smile through my heart and my heart smile through my eyes, that I may scatter rich smiles in sad hearts.
-
When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
-
I've worked in television all my life, but really I've always wanted to work in the movies.
-
I've never been a person to share my private life, but I can help save lives.
-
The game of life is a game of boomerangs. Our thoughts, deeds and words return to us sooner or later with astounding accuracy.
-
I have one son. Of everything I've done in my life, nothing matches the feeling of having life growing inside you.
-
Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.
-
Yes, I believe the will is very important. It's how I have succeeded in life.
-
Throughout the 19th century, Britain bought cheaply from the countries of the empire and compelled subject countries to buy our goods at high prices.
-
My mission in life is to preserve craftsmanship.
-
A high-brow is someone who looks at a sausage and thinks of Picasso.
-
Life - how curious is that habit that makes us think it is not here, but elsewhere.
-
People, in whatever walk of life, would be surprised if they just gave themselves a chance by believing in what they are.
-
I write essays to clear my mind. I write fiction to open my heart.
-
I think that my preaching style and many of my ideas and ideals about faith are based in both Pentecostal and Baptist background.
-
I feel like my life has always been the 'Hey Look at Me Show.' I'm not apologetic about that.
-
There are many lessons to learn. Naming just one is next to impossible. However, learning to love and be loved is a good starting point. It will encompass much.
-
India always inspires me.
-
As a young boy growing up in New York City, we would spend our summers on the South Fork of Long Island. My dad would take me down to the beach at low tide. We would walk a mile down to the jetties, and he would lower me by my ankles into the crevices between the massive boulders to grab at huge ropes of mussels.
-
The brain is the only kind of object capable of understanding that the cosmos is even there, or why there are infinitely many prime numbers, or that apples fall because of the curvature of space-time, or that obeying its own inborn instincts can be morally wrong, or that it itself exists.
-
I did start out as an actor. I went to Northwestern; I did musicals. I did plays.
-
Come hell or high water you will never take me back to the place I was before. I have been through too much to let life whoop me again. My faith is stronger than it's ever been, my mind is more tenacious than it's ever been, my soul is more absolute.
