Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

Charles R. Swindoll

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• My dad once said that in criminal law you see terrible people on their best behavior; in family law you see great people on their worst behavior.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • People
  • Great
  • Family

• We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • People
  • Think
  • Dream

• Every day it seems more likely that we are destined - or should one say doomed? - to replay the disastrous economic history of the 1930s.

  

  Barry Eichengreen
  • History
  • Day
  • Everyday

• I get 0.5 seconds to react to a ball, sometimes even less than that. I can't be thinking of what XYZ has said about me. I need to surrender myself to my natural instincts. My subconscious mind knows exactly what to do. It is trained to react. At home, my family doesn't discuss media coverage.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Thinking
  • Mind
  • Family

• I think the sense of community that exists with all the characters - that's the answer. The fact that they have found a family in their friends. It does give some depth and meaning to their lives.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Community

• This shared love of cooking and celebration has allowed me to create a strong bond with my family.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Family
  • Love
  • Strong

• Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.

  

  Karl Malone
  • Life
  • Family
  • Career

• I actually love doing period pieces, purely because it takes you into a different world, mentally. The clothes you have to wear are so far from our everyday clothes that it immediately helps with the character and putting you in that mind frame.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • World
  • Mind
  • Wear

• I did accents and funny voices for the family when I was growing up.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Up
  • Family
  • Growing

• When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.

  

  Forest Whitaker
  • Family
  • Car
  • Movies

• I have to take care of my family, my team, and my legacy.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Family
  • Team
  • Legacy

• At the end of the seven years, 'Family Ties' voluntarily went off the air. And, we went off as the #1 show on TV that week. We cut down the nets on stage 24 and moved on with the rest of our lives. Always to carry with us the blessing of what we had gone through together.

  

  Gary David Goldberg
  • Family
  • Together
  • Rest

• My mom's family is Russian Jewish, and my dad's Puerto Rico Catholic, so it's kind of a weird mix.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • Family
  • Dad
  • Mom

• I come from a very hospitable, close, Catholic, matriarchal family.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Family
  • Catholic
  • Very

• I enjoy celebrating Valentine's Day. It's a nice way to say you're thinking about your family, someone special, or dear friends.

  

  Camila Alves
  • Thinking
  • Family
  • Friends

• People know not to mess with my friends or my family because it's not going to work out well for you.

  

  Hannah Simone
  • People
  • Work
  • Family

• Power is natural, but it can be improved with a lot of work. It's been something I've focused on for a couple of years because I saw it as a place where I could make improvements.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Work
  • Power
  • Couple

• Seeing family is what brings me peace. If I'm not traveling home on my day off, I love going to Central Park to be around trees and throw a Frisbee with my boyfriend.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • Family
  • Home
  • Peace

• My parents are very hard working people who did everything they could for their children. I have two brothers and they worked dog hard to give us an education and provide us with the most comfortable life possible. My dad provided for his family daily. So, yes, that is definitely in my DNA.

  

  David Oyelowo
  • People
  • Life
  • Children

• There are different groups of people in your life that you behave slightly differently with. You behave one way with your family. You behave in a different way with your work colleagues. You behave differently with your friends from the movie club, your fitness instructor - all subtly different personas.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• It is that of increasing knowledge of empirical fact, intimately combined with changing interpretations of this body of fact - hence changing general statements about it - and, not least, a changing a structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Knowledge
  • Body
  • Changing

• Nothing remains great without a capacity to change and to accommodate the conditions of a changing world.

  

  John Ashcroft
  • World
  • Great

• Introversion, when embraced, is a wellspring of riches. It took me years to acknowledge this simple reality, to claim my home, and to value all it offers.

  

  Laurie Helgoe
  • Home
  • Reality
  • Simple

• A family is a place where principles are hammered and honed on the anvil of everyday living.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll
  • Family
  • Everyday