Gene Veith Quotes
When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.Gene Veith
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
Sade Adu -
I did a rendition of 'Billie Jean' which is on my Soundcloud. I put it on Twitter, and it got about 3000 hits that day.
Idris Elba -
We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
Radhanath Swami -
Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
Daniel Barenboim -
Failing to engage in conflict is a terrible decision, one that puts our temporary comfort and the avoidance of discomfort ahead of the ultimate goal of our organization.
Patrick Lencioni -
A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
Otto Penzler
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The day of the absolute is over, and we're in for the strange gods once more.
D. H. Lawrence -
The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
Rachel Cusk -
I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
Flea Jane's Addiction -
I've been writing a lot about my encounter with love. Which is the white stag as far as songwriting is concerned because love songs are so banal, and my experience with love is anything but that.
J. Tillman -
Life is never fair, and perhaps it is a good thing for most of us that it is not.
Oscar Wilde -
I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
Oprah Winfrey
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I kind of grew up in the indie world, and now that sort of writing and material is on television.
Parker Posey -
Et maiores vestros et posteros cogitate.
Tacitus -
I shall never write an autobiography, I'm much too jealous of my privacy for that.
Nadine Gordimer -
Any decision that's made about my career is ultimately my decision, and it's helped me not to plan too much. I've never been the guy thinking, 'I want to do a play this year, I want to do this kind of movie or this kind of character.' I don't have that sort of control.
Craig Bierko -
I don't really look at myself as the kind of person who craves attention, but I've never been to therapy so there's probably a lot of stuff about myself that I don't know.
Weird Al Yankovic -
While a fundamental responsibility of business leaders is to create value for shareholders, I think businesses also exist to deliver value to society.
Kenneth Frazier
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I looked into corruption in Afghanistan through a work called 'Payback' and impersonated a police officer, set up a fake checkpoint on the street in Kabul and stopped cars, but instead of asking them for a bribe, offered them money and apologized on behalf of the Kabul Police Department.
Aman Mojadidi -
Always be grateful for your blessings, especially your heritage. When we are blessed with goodly parents, we should be grateful. This is the debt each of us owes for our heritage.
Quentin L. Cook -
If people really want to go, and really try all their lives, I think they will get in; for I don’t believe there are any locks on that door, or any guards at the gate. I always imagine it is as it is in the picture, where the shining ones stretch out their hands to welcome poor Christian as he comes up from the river.
Louisa May Alcott -
Summers simply won't be the same without him.
John Major -
I love space opera, and I believe that every sub-genre has potential no matter how old it is.
Erica Brown -
When the church encounters hardship, persecution, and suffering, then it is closest to its crucified Lord. Then there are fewer hypocrites and nominal believers among its members, and then the faith of Christians burns most intensely.
Gene Veith