Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.
Quotes to Explore
-
I love watching the old movies. I love Katharine Hepburn. I just adore her and everything that she stood for. I find it interesting watching the likes of Gene Tierney and those classic movies of the '40s.
-
What I know about this world is that white people will take care of themselves. And what I have learned is that if you are where they are on an equal basis, they cannot take care of themselves without taking care of you.
-
Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
-
My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
-
It's always been my dream to just continually do really cool indie movies - character-driven stuff.
-
The first play I saw was a Samuel Beckett play which was great.
-
For a lot of pop performers, fame and celebrity is part of the job. But for singer-songwriters, no one really cares.
-
History must share with reading, writing and arithmetic first rank as the most important subjects in the curriculum. Understanding the issues on which citizens of a republic are expected to vote is impossible without an understanding of the past.
-
The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
-
The wish to hurt, the momentary intoxication with pain, is the loophole through which the pervert climbs into the minds of ordinary men.
-
Like the old Italian saying goes, 'It ain't rocket surgery.'
-
I live a very normal regimented life that focuses on my training and my private life so I squeeze the insane stuff in around that.
-
I love Jen Meyer - she's a dear friend, and Tabitha Simmons as well.
-
A reviewer once commented that my urban fantasy novels were paced more like epic fantasy, in that they relied on complex world-building and a gradual immersion in the lives of the characters.
-
I've always had mostly women come out to see me perform. That's the reason the guys show up; they know R. Kelly is going to draw the women. Most of the songs I'm singing are catering to women anyway.
-
It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
-
My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
-
I'm not 'Will's brother' anymore. Will is my brother. I'm paving the way for all middle children out there.
-
Whoever claims that economic competition represents 'survival of the fittest' in the sense of the law of the jungle, provides the clearest possible evidence of his lack of knowledge of economics.
-
Listen to this, and I'll tell you 'bout the heartache I'll tell you 'bout the heartache and the loss of God.
-
Do your best and let God do the rest.
-
When human beings lose their connection to nature, to heaven and earth, then they do not know how to nurture their environment or how to rule their world - which is saying the same thing. Human beings destroy their ecology at the same time that they destroy one another. From that perspective, healing our society goes hand in hand with healing our personal, elemental connection with the phenomenal world.
-
It's absolutely ugly, but unfortunately quite true of the world today; the more money you make, the more people tend to listen to you. If you're not quoted in Fortune or Forbes or the Wall Street Journal, then nobody listens. If you say something that makes a lot of money, whether what you said is true or not, people listen.
-
The wonderful thing about praying is that you leave a world of not being able to do something, and enter God’s realm where everything is possible. He specializes in the impossible. Nothing is too great for His almighty power. Nothing is too small for His love.
