Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes

We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Edward McKendree Bounds

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• I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

  

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• Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.

  

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• I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.

  

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• We live in an inter-dependent world. An isolated India is not in our interest.

  

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• Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

  

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• The idea of being at home and picking up kids from school and cooking dinner and then the husband comes home - there's something that seems really nice to me 'cause I never had that growing up. And it seems so enticing. But in my mind, I'm like, 'Well, I'll just play that in a movie and go about my own life, bizarre as it is.'

  

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• Fighting, I guess, was never the real reason I read comic books as a kid. The fighting was an important part, an integral part of it; I don't know I would've read it without it.

  

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• I don't worry about the things I can't change.

  

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• I don't think you should exploit your own pain.

  

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• I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.

  

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• Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.

  

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• It's very important to me to love what I do. It was important to me to find a career that I truly enjoy. You can find something that sort of excites you, that's half the battle of life.

  

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• Some women can't say the word lesbian... even when their mouth is full of one.

  

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• To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.

  

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• It is better to entertain an idea than to take it home to live with you for the rest of your life.

  

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• Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.

  

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• Because war is a competition involving life and death, and in which national security and vital interests are at stake, establishing an objective other than winning is not only counterproductive, but also irresponsible and wasteful. In some circumstances, it is also unethical.

  

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• Fashion isn't something I madly follow. I tend just to wear what I like and what fits me well.

  

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• A true champion can adapt to anything.

  

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• Scepticism, like wisdom, springs out in full panoply only from the brain of a god, and it is little profit to see an idea in its growth, unless we track its seed to the power which sowed it.

  

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• We may excuse the spiritual poverty of our preaching in many ways, but the true secret will be found in the lack of urgent prayer for God's presence in the power of the Holy Spirit.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • God
  • May
  • Power