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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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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To communicate the truths of history is an act of hope for the future.
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When we hear the crane’s call we hear no mere bird. We hear the trumpet in the orchestra of evolution. He is the symbol of our untamable past, of that incredible sweep of millennia which underlies and conditions the daily affairs of birds and men.
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...the darkness does not lift but becomes yet heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing into oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power or memory is never heard, never described or passed on.
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The aim of life is no more to control the mind, but to develop it harmoniously; not to achieve salvation here after, but to make the best use of it here below; and not to realise truth, beauty and good only in contemplation, but also in the actual experience of daily life; social progress depends not upon the ennoblement of the few but on the enrichment of democracy; universal brotherhood can be achieved only when there is an equality of opportunity - of opportunity in the social, political and individual life.
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I’m quite certain that we’ll have such lunar bases in our lifetime, somewhat like the Antarctic stations and similar scientific outposts, continually manned.
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Just as you would not permit a fellow employee to steal a piece of office equipment, you shouldn't let anyone walk away with the time of his fellow managers.
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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.
