Gerald Vann Quotes
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.Gerald Vann
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
Scientific progress makes moral progress a necessity; for if man's power is increased, the checks that restrain him from abusing it must be strengthened.
Madame de Stael -
The line between life or death is determined by what we are willing to do.
Bear Grylls -
You can condemn and criticize religion... all those things are fine, but you can't mock and disrespect people.
Hamza Yusuf -
Genius is a promontory jutting out into the infinite.
Victor Hugo -
The first time Adam had a chance, he laid the blame on women.
Nancy Astor
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It's a mystery to me why everybody doesn't love jazz. I've never been able to figure that out.
Walter Becker China Crisis -
I didn't have any agent; I've never had an agent.
Barbara Steele -
Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We'll break out of it. It takes time.
Warren Buffett -
The biggest thing you can give a kid is self-esteem, so that they're not shy to do different things.
Magnus Scheving -
My dreams have become puny with the reality my life has become.
Imelda Marcos -
I think the next little bit of excitement is flying. I hope I am not too old to take it up seriously, nor too stupid about machines to qualify as a commercial pilot. I do not feel like spending the rest of my life writing books that no one will read. It is not as though I wanted to write them.
Samuel Beckett
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The sword was odd. The Arab Movement was one: Feisal another (his name means a flashing sword): then there is the excluded notion, Garden of Eden touch: and the division meaning, like the sword in the bed of mixed sleeping, from the Morte d'Arthur. I don't know which was in your mind, but they all came to me - and the sword also means clean-ness, and death.
T. E. Lawrence -
As if our birth had at first sundered things, and we had been thrust up through into nature like a wedge, and not till the wound heals and the scar disappears, do we begin to discover where we are, and that nature is one and continuous everywhere.
Henry David Thoreau -
Sleep teaching was actually prohibited in England. There was something called liberalism. Parliament, if you know what that was, passed a law against it. The records survive. Speeches about liberty of the subject. Liberty to be inefficient and miserable. Freedom to be a round peg in a square hole.
Aldous Huxley -
Every album, I make big records. I'm going to always make an anthem. That's what I do.
DJ Khaled -
We must respect the referee every time.
Claudio Ranieri -
A lot of very popular mainstream artists are products of record companies and marketing companies, and any time anyone can stand outside of that, that's interesting.
Marco Brambilla
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Chicken and horse meat are the best foods for weightlifters, and good food is important.
Ilya Ilyin -
You're always weighing whether you should be that accessible or not, but my personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing thatmy personality is naturally just to throw it all out there, so I'm much more comfortable with doing that.
Donald Miller -
The films that I do tend to polarise people's views.
Alan Parker -
I don't feel like literature has the power to alienate. I think that's something people feel if they don't connect with a work of art. But I don't think a work of art can actively reject the person who's looking at it or reading it.
Eleanor Catton -
Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.
Gerald Vann