Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

I am often the brunt of my own humor.

Charles R. Swindoll

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• We don't need to share the same opinions as others, but we need to be respectful.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Respect
  • Same
  • Opinions

• It is well known that Turkey has more imprisoned journalists than any other country, but as a result of the chilling effect of these prosecutions on the press, many stories never make the news.

  

  Safak Pavey
  • Country
  • Never
  • News

• I didn't really grow up playing video games. I had an original Nintendo after the original Nintendo was cool.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Up
  • Cool
  • Grow Up

• Anywhere in life, for girls there's pressure to keep your weight and to keep yourself feeling and looking good.

  

  Kate Upton
  • Life
  • Good
  • Feeling

• I have climbed Everest from the Nepal route and the China route. The other routes are too hard for me. So I don't think I can climb Everest again.

  

  Tamae Watanabe
  • Think
  • Me
  • Hard

• Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.

  

  Laura Amy Schlitz
  • History
  • Know
  • Me

• I headed out to have a breather at the stage door, dressed in my tramp costume. I had my bowler hat between my feet and there were passers-by, and one of them turned back and said, 'Do you need help, brother?' And $1 fell into my hat!

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Help
  • Brother
  • Door

• The 'Kickin' It' set is so much fun, I find myself in a new adventure every week. I work with an amazing cast and crew.

  

  Olivia Holt
  • Work
  • Fun
  • Amazing

• Normally, the law of nature is such that one who rises falls, and one who rises quickly falls as quickly. I don't know how the law of nature will work as far as Modi is concerned. But some time or the other, all bubbles burst. This bubble will also burst.

  

  Kapil Sibal
  • Time
  • Work
  • Nature

• America's a faith-based experiment as a country. We should celebrate and invite faith. And our motto is, 'In God We Trust.' This isn't something that divides; this is something that pulls together and lifts us up.

  

  Sam Brownback
  • Up
  • God
  • Country

• 'Beauty' is a currency system like the gold standard. Like any economy, it is determined by politics, and in the modern age in the West is is the last, best belief system that keeps male dominance intact.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Age
  • Politics
  • Beauty

• I'm representing the single women out there, dating around, trying to find the right guy who respects you and appreciates you. Maybe I'll settle down somewhere. Gotta keep looking.

  

  Madchen Amick
  • Women
  • Trying
  • Guy

• I am not a dancehall artist, and I am not a reggae artist.

  

  OMI
  • Artist
  • Reggae
  • Dancehall

• I had many friends to help me to fall; but as to rising again, I was so much left to myself, that I wonder now I was not always on the ground. I praise God for His mercy; for it was He only Who stretched out His hand to me. May He be blessed for ever! Amen.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • May
  • Friends

• We borrow from Europe to defend Europe. We borrow from the Gulf states to defend the Gulf states. We borrow from Japan to defend Japan. Is it not a symptom of senility to be borrowing from the world so we can defend the world?

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • World

• Decent easy men, who supinely enjoyed the gifts of the founder.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Men

• Any time you are with anyone or think of anyone you must say to yourself: I am dying and this person too is dying, attempting the while to experience the truth of the words you are saying. If every one of you agrees to practise this, bitterness will die out, harmony will arise.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Truth

• Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps;And pyramids are pyramids in vales.Each man makes his own stature, builds himself.Virtue alone outbuilds the Pyramids;Her monuments shall last when Egypt’s fall.

  

  Edward Young
  • Alone
  • Fall

• What's really striking here is that a candidate who ran as the Paladin of the working class who'd deliver them picks a guy who heads a fast-food company, [Donald] Trump says he wants to bring back manufacturing.

  

  E. J. Dionne
  • Guy
  • Want
  • Food

• The Supreme Court raises the question, what kind of country will we be? The Supreme Court needs to stand on the side of the American people, not on the side of the powerful, wealthy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Question
  • Wealthy
  • American People

• That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Music
  • Trying
  • Think

• Turkey's solidarity with Hamas is not, of course, based on Arab nationalism, which as a non-Arab nation it does not support. It is instead based on a definition of the Mideast conflict as one between Jews and Muslims, precisely the position of Osama bin Laden and al Qaeda.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • Support

• I think that was the most entertaining match for the fans this season.

  

  Oliver Kahn
  • Fans
  • Season
  • Entertaining

• I am often the brunt of my own humor.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll