Ted Dekker Quotes

A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

Ted Dekker

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• I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • War
  • Regret
  • Questions

• I think of a song in terms of lyrics and stories, and that's what keeps it country for me.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Country
  • Think
  • Song

• We all had lots of stories of our sad experiences - they mourned the death of my wife with me - but we were hopeful that the children would return.

  

  Otto Frank
  • Children
  • Death
  • Wife

• I do sometimes wonder if people think, 'Oh we'll have her because she cries well.' The odd thing is I don't really know where it comes from. If the script is good, I find I can usually cry without too much trouble - in fact, the hard thing is trying to get me to stop. But I'm not really a crier in real life. I'm not a dramatic person, you see.

  

  Olivia Colman
  • People
  • Life
  • Good

• I'd like to work with horses, but it doesn't pay very well. Maybe I'd like to go somewhere in the Middle East because they keep buying really nice horses for their Olympic teams - like, the Qataris.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Work
  • Nice
  • Maybe

• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Try

• That's when I feel really excited about a painting. When it starts to feel real, when it feels like it has a personality.

  

  Dana Schutz
  • Real
  • Painting
  • Personality

• Tim Conway was a little different from the rest. He was always in the back of the studio building something with the prop man, rewriting his lines, or plotting our demise.

  

  Vicki Lawrence
  • Different
  • Man
  • Rest

• I feel very giddy with the idea of making my imagination take form and being able to put on a show where people leave feeling like they've experienced something.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Imagination

• In the '70s, my playing was completely untutored, but it sounded good to me, and I tried to find ways to make those very simple things work in more ambitious contexts.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Good
  • Work
  • Simple

• As I read, I start to form clear ideas of the characters and allow myself to be a proper conduit for this author's voice so that you will feel you have been on a seductive audio journey.

  

  Barbara Rosenblat
  • Myself
  • Journey
  • Start

• Just because a majority of the Supreme Court declares something to be 'constitutional' does not make it so.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Court
  • Just Because

• I feel it's tougher for the guys, because if I break up with them, then they can go on and be forced to watch me on TV every day. I don't see them.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Up
  • Me
  • Day

• I want to tell you what it was really like to think death is imminent, but I can't. It's a taste in your mouth. And an emptiness.

  

  Aaron Huey
  • Think
  • Want
  • Death

• The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Way
  • Politics
  • Ready

• Informed opponents of Obama's healthcare initiative have expressed dismay at the low level of discourse.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Health care
  • Initiative
  • Low

• Savage and furious nations, perpetually at war, adore, under diverse names, some God, conformable to their ideas, that is to say, cruel, carnivorous, selfish, blood-thirsty.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • God
  • War
  • Selfish

• Solitude is a breeding ground for idiosyncrasy, and I relish that about it, the way it liberates whim.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Solitude

• Privilege is a made up metric used to silence and repress. We are all different, and that is ok. We listen to individuals and help each other based on individual strengths and needs. We do not generalize based on skin color, bigot.

  

  Markus Persson
  • Up
  • Different
  • Help

• We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Beautiful
  • Lake
  • Purple

• To try to understand the real significance of what the great artists, the serious masters, tell us in their masterpieces, that leads to God; one man wrote or told it in a book; another, in a picture.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Men
  • Real
  • Trying

• A person who finds silence and solitude boring is a person who is himself boring, empty of anything worth consideration.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • Silence
  • Solitude
  • Boring