Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

Charles R. Swindoll

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• I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Model

• I'll never have a tattoo - I just don't like them, and when you're old they can look a disaster. As for piercings, I don't like them on men.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Men
  • Look
  • Old

• As technology evolves, it manipulates our culture, and there's a huge opportunity to push ourselves further. I think it actually makes ourselves maybe more human, or at least human in a different way, that we can connect together in amazingly different ways and powerful new ways.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Different
  • Together
  • Culture

• You feel it in there, pacing your heart sometimes, and it has what's called a defibrillator. Should I suffer that arhythmia, it's generally sudden death. And the paddles that are internal shock you back and restore your rhythm to its normal and natural state.

  

  Victoria Gotti
  • Heart
  • Death
  • Sometimes

• I used to visit London when I was younger with my family. I feel very close to the city.

  

  Rachel Platten
  • Family
  • City
  • London

• I have seen people climbing up and down the ladder of success, and I learnt a lot from them.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • People
  • Up
  • Success

• I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Myself
  • Place
  • Broke

• I used to love to create outfits, and I still do - I just don't have the time. How can you wear one thing and never wear it again? Even my wedding dress - I had a dress made that I could wear again. I'm a child of the depression, so I'm very, very practical.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Time
  • Depression
  • Very

• I love having my hoop earrings. Just regular gold hoops.

  

  Becky G
  • Gold
  • Having
  • Regular

• I was in the Boy Scouts for about four years until my troop disbanded. It is really one of the best activities youths can get involved in and nearly every scout I have known has been a class act due to the discipline the Scouts have instilled in them.

  

  Ted Stevens
  • Best
  • Boy
  • Years

• I'm a typical California boy.

  

  Gary Lockwood
  • Boy
  • California
  • Typical

• Marketers are out there trying to figure out how to get your money out of your child.

  

  Maggie Gallagher
  • Trying
  • Money
  • Child

• I'm attracted to the rag & bone aesthetic - classic and effortless with an edge.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Aesthetic
  • Classic
  • Edge

• I would say that one of the things that encouraged me so much when I became elected to the leadership was the letters I received from fathers of daughters, saying that, 'My daughter can now do many more things because of what you did.'

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Leadership
  • Daughter
  • Fathers

• When you're bringing in a fairly unknown candidate challenging a sitting president, the population needs a lot more information than reduced coverage provides.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • You
  • Information
  • Unknown

• I only understand realism.

  

  Manuel Puig
  • Understand
  • Only
  • Realism

• Personally, I do not know whether humankind is alone in this vast universe. But I do know that we should cherish our existence on this precious speck of matter... the greatest gift that could be bestowed upon us. For all practical purposes, there is only one planet Earth.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Earth
  • Alone
  • Universe

• It was in the sugar hacienda in Negros, Panay and in Central Luzon where I saw the injustices heaped upon the sugar workers, particularly the sacadas, or seasonal workers.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Where
  • Workers
  • Sugar

• I did three and a half years in the architecture school with no real love or feel for it. After quite a while I realized I don't like to pick up a pen and freely sketch and let my imagination run towards structures. And if I don't have that natural desire, what am I doing here? How did I let this illusion go on so long?

  

  Art Garfunkel Simon & Garfunkel
  • Desire
  • Imagination
  • Feel

• Don't put too fine a point to your wit for fear it should get blunted.

  

  Miguel de Cervantes
  • Fear
  • Fine
  • Wit

• I longed to be bright and most certainly never was. I was rather hopeless, I suspect.

  

  Maggie Smith
  • Never
  • Hopeless
  • Bright

• Here is this ability to explore ideas, but with minute changes, and then look at the results. Often you get so excited about what you're doing that you think, "Oh, wow, this is just great." And you look at it a week later and you realize you'd been excited by the act of creation, but what you've created is not really exciting when you look at it in cold blood. And so that, to me, is a valuable lesson also.

  

  Warren MacKenzie
  • Cold
  • Ability
  • Week

• Alleged 'impossibilities' are opportunities for our capacities to be stretched.

  

  Charles R. Swindoll