Jim Croce Quotes

I'm no missionary, and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am.

Jim Croce

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• When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Day
  • Everyday
  • Tears

• We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • History
  • Political
  • Government

• The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Soul

• That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.

  

  Ory Okolloh
  • Up
  • Good

• I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.

  

  Pauly Shore

• Concealed handgun licenses contain all of the identifying information required by the TSA. It is time they recognize these licenses as acceptable forms of identification.

  

  Bill Flores
  • Time

• I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.

  

  Jane Campion
  • Important
  • Money
  • Why

• There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

  

  Bill Keller

• With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I am a huge fan of.

  

  Jack Garratt
  • People

• I think one wants lots of different lives.

  

  Jane Asher
  • Different

• 'Game Of Thrones' was too big a canvas for a movie, but 'Dirty White Boys' is like a great old Western: there's so much compression, and it's so pressurized, it demands to be told in one sitting.

  

  David Benioff
  • Great
  • Movie
  • Game

• 'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'

  

  Anne Reid
  • Time
  • Good
  • Long

• I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.

  

  Joseph B. Wirthlin
  • People
  • Character
  • German

• We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Help
  • Step

• The real work is in the Heart:

  

  Rabia Basri
  • Work
  • Real
  • Heart

• To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

  

  Taika Waititi
  • Want
  • Interesting
  • Learning

• Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Cat

• The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

  

  Adoniram Judson
  • River
  • Missionary

• Hearing the missionary call has a great deal to do with what you are listening for.

  

  David Sills
  • Great
  • Listening
  • Hearing

• I would like to do 'King Lear.' But I would like to do it in Swedish.

  

  Max von Sydow
  • King

• Of course, thanks to the house, a great many of our memories are housed, and if the house is a bit elaborate, if it has a cellar and a garret, nooks and corridors, our memories have refuges that are all the more clearly delineated. All our lives we come back to them in our daydreams. A psychoanalyst should, therefore, turn his attention to this simple localization of our memories. I should like to give the name of topoanalysis to this auxiliary of pyschoanalysis. Topoanalysis, then would be the systematic psychological study of the sites of our intimate lives.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Great
  • House
  • Attention

• Suicide is the only way out.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Way
  • Suicide
  • Controversy

• I'm no missionary, and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am.

  

  Jim Croce
  • Missionary