George Verwer Quotes
I believe the reason many Christians are so dull and lifeless in their faith is because they are not in the battle, not using their weapons, not advancing against the enemy.
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Arthur Conan Doyle was entranced by the notion of a brilliant detective who can deduce everything a stranger has been up to from the merest clue, and yet can't have a trusting relationship with his closest friend.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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Women have become stronger, and there's a backlash. Men have become terribly possessive. I find it much easier to get on with women.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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There were a lot of times I wondered if I was deluding myself. I had nothing else to fall back on, but I never enjoyed anything else.
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Every single aspect of myself, let me put it this way, it's all about trying to incorporate. It's about trying to weave the web and keep everyone happy. And of course, it's about giving value to those people so they continue to sponsor me.
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Of compelling consideration is the fact that words acquire scope and function from the history of events which they summarize.
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There's not a moment on it that will sound too familiar, as soon as it sounds comfortably familiar then we like to do something with it to take away that comfortable feeling.
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We're going to develop - what we want to do is to provide the viewers with what they want from CNN and that is the news. So when people tune in, they'll get the latest news, but they'll also get the biggest story of the day in depth, as CNN does so well.
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The better life rests less on the prohibitions of the Ten Commandments and more on the parable of the Good Samaritan and the Golden Rule.
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There is a great deal of pressure, in the one particular area at least, to prostitute our ideas, if not our integrity.
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Anybody who gives away money is mostly looking at things where they think they can make a difference. I'm trying to help people who helped me, educational institutions that helped me with scholarships, or organizations that were very useful to me in growing up.
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I've had the honor of working with so many trans people as a hairdresser over my career in some way.
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I feel like the sixties is about to happen. It feels like a period in the future to me, rather than a period in the past.
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The president of a TV network generously agreed to take his company's aptitude test, a test required of all the personnel. He did badly. As a result he was in a sullen mood for the rest of the day. When he got home that night, his wife asked why he looked so grouchy. I took the company's aptitude test this morning. What did it show? asked the wife. It showed, boomed the executive, that such tests are idiotic. That's what it showed.
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Repentance always brings a person to the point of saying, “I have sinned.” The surest sign that God is at work in his life is when he says that and means it. Anything less is simply sorrow for having made foolish mistakes-a reflex action caused by self-disgust.
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Now women in comedy is a trendy topic, and people are hungering for women's voices in a way that they haven't before.
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A wicked tyrant is better than a wicked war.
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I think it's the whole impulse to judge and censor and euphemize, that is the enemy. … What fun, to feel superior to T. S. Eliot. And that's the impulse that I am suspicious of.
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Seriously, however, I learn a lot about my physical life in the aging and changing of my body.
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I will never give up, and I will never give in.
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I believe the reason many Christians are so dull and lifeless in their faith is because they are not in the battle, not using their weapons, not advancing against the enemy.
