Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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Like everything which is not the involuntary result of fleeting emotion but the creation of time and will, any marriage, happy or unhappy, is infinitely more interesting than any romance, however passionate.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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I'm not very good in crowds, so I usually try to become as small as possible.
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People turn into fools when they see a movie star and do weird things.
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You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
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As the bill requires, any terror alert system must give people and organizations some indication about what steps they must take to improve their own security and assist in the Nation's security.
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I think I'm much too earnest to be as cool as 'Boyd Crowder'.
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More than anyone else, Hank Aaron made me wish I wasn't a manager.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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An object is not first imagined or thought about and then expected or willed, but in being actively expected it is imagined as future and in being willed it is thought.
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No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
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Good fiction reveals feeling, refines events, locates importance and, though its methods are as mysterious as they are varied, intensifies the experience of living our own lives.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
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As far as expectations go, you can never work for expectations. You have to work against them.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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You should be excited to meet new people and try new things—to assume the best about them, in the absence of evidence to the contrary. In the long run, optimism is the best prevention for regret.
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The tragedy of life is often not in our failure, but rather in our complacency; not in our doing too much, but rather in our doing too little; not in our living above our ability, but rather in our living below our capacities.
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There is a certain phase in the life of the aged when the warmth of the heart seems to increase in direct proportion with the years.
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Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
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Prop 8 did something that no other state in the history of this country has done. It took away the rights of people that already were legally affirmed. Imagine someone putting something on the ballot saying your wedding, your marriage is no longer valid.
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Preaching is not the performance of an hour. It is the outflow of a life. It takes twenty years to make a sermon because it takes twenty years to make the man. The true sermon is a thing of life. The sermon grows because the man grows.
