Jimmy Carter Quotes

I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers.

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• They draw back into themselves, and are thrown back on their own bodies for gratification. The men become narcissistic and uncertain of the power of any woman, no matter how strange and beautiful, to arouse their desire, but the women remain continually receptive to male advances.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Men
  • Women
  • Power

• Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.

  

  Hank Ketcham
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  • Dennis

• Flowers have an expression of countenance as much as men or animals. Some seem to smile; some have a sad expression; some are pensive and diffident; others are plain, honest and upright, like the broad faced sunflower and the hollyhock.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Expression
  • Flowers
  • Countenance

• I just want to not be me.

  

  Ned Vizzini
  • Want

• All great achievements are the result of sustained focus over time-all of them.

  

  Gary W. Keller
  • Focus
  • Result
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• I've learned to question success a lot more than failure.

  

  Kat Cole
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• You have to nourish your creativity for it to flourish.

  

  Kat Von D
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  • Flourish
  • Nourish

• If something depressing is happening, that's gold. That's the best possible situation you could be in. But if that doesn't happen, you just have to make up stuff - it's more fun because you have more freedom with what you can write about. You can invent characters and situations. It's actually easier.

  

  Eliot Paulina Sumner
  • Freedom
  • Makeup
  • Characters

• True believers just don't see things the way they are, because if they did, they wouldn't be true believers anymore.

  

  Philip Caputo
  • True
  • Things
  • See

• We believers do need to be challenged to a life of committed discipleship, but that challenge needs to be based on the gospel, not on duty or guilt. Duty or guilt may motivate us for awhile, but only a sense of Christ's love for us will motivate us for a lifetime.

  

  Jerry Bridges
  • Lifetime
  • Gospel
  • Guilt

• Having lost Rhett, she can always return to the land - to Tara, to soak up its strength. . . . Tara! . . . Home. I'll go home, and I'll think of some way to get him back! After all, tomorrow is another day!

  

  Vivien Leigh
  • Thinking
  • Home
  • Tomorrow

• I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Believers
  • Fundamentalism
  • Authoritarian males