George Hodges Quotes

God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience...whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed...It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.

George Hodges

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• Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Reading
  • Imagination
  • Creative

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.

  

  Pamela Stephenson
  • People
  • Up
  • Saying

• Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.

  

  Nas
  • Music
  • Want
  • Dating

• Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • You
  • Rich
  • Will

• Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

  

  Edmund White
  • Ideas
  • Become
  • Approach

• My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.

  

  Ziggy Marley
  • World
  • Music
  • Father

• Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Boxing
  • Very
  • Both Sides

• I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Experience
  • Culture
  • Enjoy

• If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?'

  

  Patrick Wilson
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Guy

• All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.

  

  W. C. Fields
  • Men
  • Women
  • Family

• I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.

  

  M. Night Shyamalan
  • Pretend
  • Smarter
  • Cooler

• I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • English
  • Literature
  • Stories

• I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal

• If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Boss

• That night we visited various places where well-shaped and scented, though completely naked, Japanese girls came to sit on male knees.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Night
  • Japanese

• Science has an important part to play in our everyday existence, and there is far too much neglect of science; but its intention is to supplement not to supplant the familiar outlook.

  

  Arthur Eddington
  • Important
  • Science
  • Everyday

• I will not live without love.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Live
  • Love

• I was always curious why certain marketing worked and some marketing did not.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • Certain
  • Marketing
  • Curious

• Pain is a gift. Humanity, without pain, would know neither fear nor pity. Without fear, there could be no humility, and every man would be a monster. The recognition of pain and fear in others give rise in us to pity, and in our pity is our humanity, our redemption.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Fear
  • Pain
  • Humanity

• I owe my sucess in one per cent to my talent, in ten per cent to luck, and in ninety per cent to hard word. Work, work, and more work is the secret to success.

  

  Ignacy Jan Paderewski
  • Work
  • Success
  • Secret

• The soul which stops at creatures delays the course of the voyage by which it moves toward God; and by desiring to enjoy them, it proportionately deprives itself of the enjoyment of God.

  

  Pierre Nicole
  • God
  • Soul

• God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience...whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed...It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.

  

  George Hodges
  • God
  • Duty
  • Obedience