Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

A man is powerful on his knees.

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• I saw a picture of Elvis in blue lame, and thought that if I could recreate that suit and walk down the King's Road in it, someone might pick me up and take me off on a crazy adventure.

  

  Malcolm Mclaren
  • Up
  • Crazy
  • Road

• Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Good
  • Step

• I use honey to condition my hair and eggs for protein. Also, mayonnaise and olive oil are great options for keeping it moisturized.

  

  Tasha Smith
  • Great
  • Hair
  • Oil

• I think coming to work and being absurd and neurotic and thoughtful at the same time is far more interesting.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Time
  • Work
  • Interesting

• You may get real tired watching me, but I'm not going to quit.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Real
  • May
  • Me

• I don't want to go down in history as a man who allowed blood to be shed.

  

  Eduard Shevardnadze
  • History
  • Man
  • Blood

• I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.

  

  Ian Rush
  • Great
  • Why
  • Think

• History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.

  

  E. L. Doctorow
  • People
  • Why
  • History

• You just have to re-wire your brain when you're shifting from the stage to the screen or the silver screen or the HD flat screen.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • You
  • Brain
  • Silver

• The thing about the Internet is that you can write something... for a very narrow audience and make a living at it.

  

  Randall Munroe
  • You
  • Internet
  • Living

• I am not the first man who wanted to make changes in his life at 60 and I won't be the last. It is just that others can do it with anonymity.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Man
  • Changes

• I'm lucky in some ways in that I really don't need more than five or so hours of sleep.

  

  Iman
  • Sleep
  • Need
  • Lucky

• We're so marriage-obsessed, we think that only married people are families.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • People
  • Think
  • Marriage

• Oh my God, Betty White is actually everything that you would expect her to be like.

  

  Yvette Nicole Brown
  • God
  • You
  • White

• If you get something like 'Avatar,' it opens up a lot of big blockbuster doors.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Up
  • You
  • Like

• I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Know

• I've always been a bubbly and energetic and happy person, but when I get upset, I get frustrated; when someone makes me mad, I definitely have a temper, and I've had to deal with having a temper my whole life.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Me

• I'm very blessed with the perfect husband.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Perfect
  • Husband
  • Blessed

• When you're playing music through the streets of London at 2 o'clock in the morning, there's something so cool and magical about that. It takes you to a special place very quickly.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Music
  • Morning
  • Cool

• What's really interesting is the introduction of the tablet - not just the iPad, but the Nook and the Kindle. While they aren't going to solve all of our problems, I do think they make it easier for people to pause, linger, read and really process very important ideas.

  

  Chris Hughes
  • People
  • Important
  • Interesting

• I have always thought - and a lot of people won't agree with this - that we're incredibly driven by fear, basically. Aren't we? It's awful to be frightened. I think it's a very strong, very powerful thing, fear.

  

  Leonora Carrington
  • People
  • Strong
  • Fear

• Horses are such a powerful part of human development and have been since the early ages. We humans owe them so much.

  

  Paul Rodgers Bad Company
  • Powerful

• Everyone has a struggle in life, and the question is do you allow yourself to be overcome by it or do you master it with unified strength and power. This is exactly what the music was meant to do, to transend your normal world, to make you more than what you are, to make you set down your burden for a while. Feel powerful, feel invincible, feel indestructible; believe in something as opposed to believing in nothing; spread the sickness, infect the world.

  

  David Draiman Disturbed
  • Life
  • World
  • Music

• A man is powerful on his knees.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Powerful
  • Knees