Danny Gokey Quotes

I tell people life is like a book being written by heavenly hands that we can't see.

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• All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Friends
  • Today
  • Nice

• The love of liberty and the sense of human dignity are the basic elements of the Anarchist creed.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Human
  • Liberty
  • Sense

• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Simple
  • Human
  • Difficult

• I never did a dirty armpit. You can look dirty, but you can't be dirty.

  

  Kate Moss
  • You
  • Never
  • Look

• 'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.

  

  Patrick Lussier
  • World
  • Work
  • Amazing

• In Israel, waves of anger and fear circulate all the time, but so do jokes and gossip and silky evening breezes. So, too, in America.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • Time
  • America
  • Fear

• There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Courtesy
  • Defence

• For the record, I have long suspected that my favorite book is actually 'Charlotte's Web.'

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Long
  • Book
  • Favorite

• I have only a few really enviable skills, but packing - condensing just the right amount of stuff into a single bag, whether the trip is for a weekend or, as in this case, seven weeks - is one of them.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Single
  • Weekend
  • Skills

• After World War I the resentment of the working class against all that it had to suffer was directed more against Morgan, Wall Street and private capital than the government.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • World
  • War
  • Government

• I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.

  

  Vera Wang
  • Music
  • Always
  • Dresses

• As awful as crime can be, it's what happens afterward - the struggling to get out of bed, to put one foot in front of the other - that alters people.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • People
  • Crime
  • Bed

• You like the style of the people you like because it reflects something inside them.

  

  Tavi Gevinson
  • People
  • You
  • Style

• I don't talk about political matters. That's not my department.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • Political
  • Talk
  • Matters

• Your first duty as a writer is to write to please yourself. And you have no duty towards anyone else.

  

  Iris Chang
  • You
  • Yourself
  • First

• There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • Small
  • Always
  • Same

• I've always wanted to tackle the casual part of dressing. Knits to me are always just easy. I've fantasized about packing a suitcase of only knits: You just throw them in, roll them in a ball, pull them out and they still look fabulous.

  

  Nanette Lepore
  • Look
  • Part
  • Fabulous

• What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.

  

  Fareed Zakaria
  • World
  • American
  • Today

• It's nice to see different dimensions of a character. A love interest and family life are always, I think, important in creating layers and textures.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Life
  • Important
  • Family

• We are not built for the mountains and the dawns and aesthetic affinities, those are for moments of inspiration, that is all. We are built for the valley, for the ordinary stuff we are in, and that is where we have to prove our mettle. Spiritual selfishness always wants repeated moments on the mount. We feel we could talk like angels and live like angels, if only we could stay on the mount. The times of exaltation are exceptional, they have their meaning in our life with God, but we must beware lest our spiritual selfishness wants to make them the only time.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• The government and the opposition need to think about their people, if they actually went out and saw the conditions in which their people are living, it might actually mean that they would pause and think again about the importance of peace.

  

  Valerie Amos, Baroness Amos
  • People
  • Peace

• Every piece of music is not for everybody.

  

  Erik Parker
  • Music
  • Pieces

• I tell people life is like a book being written by heavenly hands that we can't see.

  

  Danny Gokey
  • People
  • Life
  • Book