Lecrae (Lecrae Devaughn Moore) Quotes

Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

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• Ranger fans, they're expecting you to win, so you really want to show up every day.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Up
  • Day
  • Win

• Smelling a crayon takes you right back to childhood. When I need to go back in time, I put it under my nose and take another hit.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • Time
  • Childhood
  • Nose

• All the musicians I loved growing up were men. I loved Leonard Cohen, Mick Jagger. I loved Alex Turner from the Arctic Monkeys. Even today, I love Van McCann from Catfish and the Bottlemen and Matt Healy from The 1975.

  

  Halsey
  • Up
  • Men
  • Love

• I've never walked away from any of my positions. I take pride in them.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Never
  • Pride
  • Away

• You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don't let people know where they stand.

  

  Jack Welch
  • People
  • Know
  • Stand

• We talking about revolution because that's the era that you're caught in.

  

  H. Rap Brown
  • You
  • Revolution
  • Talking

• I don't think I'd like to be a different person. But I do sometimes see my cats lolling about and think it would be nice to be one of them.

  

  Cameron Dokey
  • Different
  • Think
  • Nice

• Russia has always had a global history. Global history is a bummer. You suffer invasions of all different kinds. And Russia was not defended against them.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Different
  • History
  • You

• Sometimes if something is entertaining and amusing, people tend to think that it doesn't have the depth of something that's dramatic. I don't think that's true.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • People
  • True
  • Sometimes

• At Barca, players were banned from driving their sports cars to training.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Sports
  • Training
  • Driving

• Those who own much have much to fear.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Fear
  • Own
  • Those

• My point of view is that if I love a certain kind of beauty, I want more of that beauty. I don't need 200 different beauties.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Different
  • Love
  • Want

• Looking back, I got the bed I wanted and I lay in it. I didn't want to go to America. If you want to join that world, you have to go and live there, and that was something I could not have done. I am very much about family. It doesn't matter where I live, but I feel very needful of my people around me. Besides, theatre is my first love.

  

  Felicity Kendal
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

  

  Alveda King
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Baby

• I guarantee that there is no political influence in any investigation conducted by the Justice Department or the FBI, not just in this case, but in any case, full stop, period.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Political
  • Stop
  • Justice

• The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

  

  Anthony Daniels
  • Real
  • Friends
  • Question

• All chess masters have on occasion played a magnificent game and then lost it by a stupid mistake, perhaps in time pressure and it may perhaps seem unjust that all their beautiful ideas get no other recognition than a zero on the tournament table.

  

  Bent Larsen
  • Game
  • Ideas
  • Mistake

• When I chose Mississippi State, of course I dreamed about being a big-time college football player. But I'm so grateful that actually became a reality - and it became a reality in a small town.

  

  Dak Prescott
  • Time
  • Reality
  • Small

• Gratefulness is a double-edged sword. Because I think we've poured it into a feeling. And the batter of gratitude gets kind of stuck to the edges of the Williams Sonoma melamine mixing bowl. But gratefulness, the act of being grateful is actually... a verb. It's an activity.

  

  Abigail Spencer
  • Think
  • Feeling
  • Gratitude

• Corporations do not pay taxes, they collect them, passing the burden to consumers as a cost of production. And corporate taxation is a feast of rent-seeking - a cornucopia of credits, exemptions and other subsidies conferred by the political class on favored, and grateful, corporations.

  

  George Will
  • Political
  • Grateful
  • Taxes

• Pollution is a problem, and there's the whole problem of the spoiling of the commons, but we've addressed the pollution problem on a variety of different levels in a variety of ways, and it's worked pretty well.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Different
  • Pretty
  • Way

• Instead of complaining that the rose bush is full of thorns, be grateful the thorn bush has roses. Perspective.

  

  Lecrae
  • Grateful
  • Roses
  • Thorns