Charles R. Swindoll Quotes

I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

Charles R. Swindoll

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• Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Kids
  • You
  • Need

• Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Human

• I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Done
  • Before
  • Vine

• So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.

  

  Feist
  • Great
  • Fun
  • Simple

• I've found that the most engaging and satisfying author events I've done are with other people, where the conversation is spontaneous. I think that is by far the better way to introduce and promote a book.

  

  Gayle Forman
  • People
  • Done
  • Book

• I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.

  

  Laura Prepon
  • Little
  • Got
  • Tomboy

• I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Power
  • Brain
  • Positive

• I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.

  

  Wale
  • Person
  • Passionate
  • Fault

• When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.

  

  Eddie Cantor
  • Thought
  • See
  • Now

• We believe, in fact, that the one act of respect has little force unless matched by the other - in balance with it... The acting out of that dual respect I would name as precisely the source of our power.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Believe
  • Power
  • Respect

• I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.

  

  Vince McMahon
  • Man
  • Understand
  • Least

• I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.

  

  Barney Frank
  • Question
  • About
  • Antisocial

• I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I'm happy, I make great music. When I'm unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.

  

  Narada Michael Walden
  • Good
  • Great
  • Music

• I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.

  

  Najib Mikati
  • People
  • Conflict
  • Themselves

• Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Real
  • Imagination
  • Thoughts

• When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.

  

  Ian Gomez
  • School
  • High
  • City

• I have vowed to my God to teach the heathen, though I be despised by some.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • God
  • Teach
  • Some

• I'm a big supporter of immigration.

  

  Malcolm Wallop
  • Immigration
  • Big
  • Supporter

• There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

  

  J. William Fulbright
  • Long
  • Reason
  • Problems

• At least for me, writing a book is continual exposure to blind spots. There were things I wanted to be true and wanted to believe, but it always got more complicated in the fiction.

  

  Phil Klay
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Book

• I'm vegetarian and stick to a strict health regime of brown rice, tofu, salads and soya milk. When I'm at home in Somerset, I buy almost everything in the local farmshops including Barleymow's in Chard. I always get organic - I like happy hens.

  

  Kate O'Mara
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Health

• The fellow that has no money is poor. The fellow that has nothing but money is poorer still.

  

  Billy Sunday
  • Money

• Genius is the capacity to see ten things where the ordinary man sees one, and the man of talent sees two or three, plus the ability to register that multiple perception in the material of his art.

  

  Ezra Pound
  • Art
  • Talent
  • Genius

• I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!

  

  Charles R. Swindoll