Charles Spurgeon Quotes
Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
Quotes to Explore
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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If the interview was done in the studio, Frank McGee would automatically do it. But if I went out and got it, then the interview was mine. So I was considered a pushy cookie, because I would get the interview.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.
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It may be a cold, clammy thing to say, but those that treat friendship the same as any other selfishness seem to get the most out of it.
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Everything begins with an idea.
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
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Whereas recessive traits require two bad copies of a gene to become noticeable, a dominant trait expresses itself no matter what the other copy does. A benign example of dominance: If you inherit one gene for sticky wet earwax and one gene for dry earwax, the sticky earwax gene wins out every time.
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English people are famous for never speaking out but only saying what they really feel about you behind your back. Americans believe the shortest distance between two points is a straight line. I like exploring those, er, differences in national snippiness.
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You cannot be lonely if you like the person you're alone with.
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The qualities I most admire in women are confidence and kindness.
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Marxism conceives of the new system of socialism as the necessary outcome of all previous history made possible and necessary only by that previous history.
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Good design is good business.
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I don't worry about whether I'm making a masterpiece, because I know that if you get just one of those in a lifetime, you should get down on your knees and say 'Thank you!'
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I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
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When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
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I definitely used to write a lot at school. Comic poetry and drawings about people.
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If you look around the world and see all the different countries struggling to get away from very low inflation rates with economies not nearly as strong as ours, you want to make sure we avoid those circumstances.
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I was doing this children's theater play, and it was non-Equity. We were out of town to do it at the Kennedy Center, and it was always kind of, 'Well, the producers may have to turn this into Equity,' and that's what happened. It was kind of a silly children's theater play, but that's how I got my card.
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Writing is writing, and stories are stories. Perhaps the only true genres are fiction and non-fiction. And even there, who can be sure?
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Having stretched the boundaries some, I'm perfectly content now to work within them. 'Doonesbury' doesn't need to become 'South Park.' You won't ever see any singing turds.
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Soul-winning is the chief business of the Christian minister; it should be the main pursuit of every true believer.
