George Verwer Quotes

The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.

George Verwer

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• I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • People
  • Life
  • Political

• You can't hit what you can't see.

  

  Walter Johnson
  • You
  • See
  • Hit

• It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Good
  • Real
  • Nice

• All these actors who died before I was born, all the theaters and the artistic movements - all that stuff fills you up and makes you feel like you're the inheritor of all this information and of all its passion.

  

  Harold Prince
  • Up
  • Passion
  • Feel

• 'Shocking' is like a bolt from the blue. It is something external that ruptures your world.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • World
  • Like
  • Blue

• A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.

  

  Otto Weininger
  • Truth

• We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Clouds

• Do the best job I can, not hurt our fellow beings on this planet, that's my religion.

  

  Anu Garg
  • Job
  • Hurt

• Every time a man is begotten and born, the clock of human life is wound up anew to repeat once more its same old tune that has already been played innumerable times, movement by movement and measure by measure, with insignificant variations.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• Death does determine life.

  

  Pier Paolo Pasolini
  • Life
  • Death

• Probably only an art-worlder like me could assign deeper meaning to something as simple and silly as Tebowing. But, to us, anytime people repeat a stance or a little dance, alone or together, we see that it can mean something. Imagistic and unspoken language is our thing.

  

  Jerry Saltz
  • People
  • Art
  • Together

• A lot of people have told me along the way that my style and the music I do... is unmarketable. But the only reason I'm successful is because I have stayed true to myself.

  

  Lindsey Stirling
  • People
  • Music
  • True

• Most of my inspiration comes from mistakes, so every time I make a massive mistake, that usually affects me so much that I have to process that via song.

  

  Nicholas James Murphy
  • Song
  • Mistake
  • Inspiration

• I based in Brazil, Sao Paulo, but I come very often to the states, and I travel all over the world.

  

  Emerson Fittipaldi
  • World
  • Travel

• My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.

  

  Katie Price
  • Trying
  • Dream

• Heroes aren't always people who save others in the normal sense. Sometimes they're people who keep trying even when things seem impossible.

  

  Jeff Vandermeer
  • People
  • Trying

• If I displayed this cup, I might look at it once or twice a week. By using it, I get pleasure from it continually.

  

  Lila Acheson Wallace

• I was about to walk on stage at the Kansas Speedway - I was playing a NASCAR race - and I said to Scooter Carusoe, who was standing side stage, 'I want to write a song called 'Wanna Be That Song.' Then I put my earphones back in and walked right out on stage.

  

  Brett Eldredge
  • Song

• Oh, swiftly glides the bonnie boat, Just parted from the shore,And to the fisher's chorus-note, Soft moves the dipping oar!

  

  Joanna Baillie
  • Boat

• President Obama has expressed his commitment to responsible stewardship of our land, water, and other natural resources. And one way of restoring the land to its natural condition is what we are doing here today - breaking pavement for the People's Garden.

  

  Tom Vilsack
  • Today
  • Water
  • President

• I cite these events because I think they underline two very disturbing phenomena - the loss of U.S. international credibility, the growing U.S. international isolation.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Think
  • Growing
  • Loss

• Love can never explain the loved one, my dear. It is the essence of wild unreason.

  

  Han Suyin
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Essence

• These nutbags, like Santorum and Bachmann, who make these people and especially young gay kids feel miserable, shame on them. They're quacks. I would never vote for them. I wouldn't even listen to them because there but for the grace of God go they.

  

  Howard Stern
  • People
  • Kids
  • Gay

• The truth is that most mission work is carried out where the church already exists Only small percentages are working where the church is non-existent.

  

  George Verwer
  • Church
  • Exist
  • Mission