Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

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• Appearance is something absolute, but reality is not that way - everything is interdependent, not absolute. So that view is very helpful to maintain a peace of mind because the main destroyer of a peaceful mind is anger.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Mind
  • Reality
  • Peace

• Disciples of Keynes, who focus on aggregate demand, view any increase in household wealth as raising employment because they say it adds to consumer demand.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Focus
  • Wealth
  • View

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• My kind publishers, Toby Mundy and Margaret Stead of Atlantic Books, have commissioned me to write the life of Queen Victoria.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Life
  • Kind
  • Write

• It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.

  

  Gautam Gambhir
  • People
  • Hurt
  • Thought

• I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.

  

  L.A. Reid
  • People
  • Believe
  • Ahead

• What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Beginning
  • End
  • Start

• I can be very hard on myself, very demanding.

  

  Yuan Yuan Tan
  • Myself
  • Hard
  • I Can

• I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nice

• This movie will actually increase the sex life of parents everywhere because they can put this on, with the 45 minutes of extras and they've got almost two hours to do whatever they've got to do while the kids watch the movie.

  

  Dana Carvey
  • Life
  • Kids
  • Movie

• Let us take our children seriously! Everything else follows from this... only the best is good enough for a child.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Good
  • Children
  • Best

• Small businesses have told us that having cash in their pocket is one of the primary things that they need.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Need
  • Cash

• There are people who want me to do a cologne. They want to call it 'Patrick.' I was offered a fortune to make exercise videos. Posters, all kinds of stuff – something like $10 million worth. It's insanity. I'm not going to do any of it.

  

  Patrick Swayze
  • People
  • Want
  • Fortune

• The wealthiest Americans often live as though they and their children had nothing to gain from investments in education, infrastructure, clean-energy, and scientific research.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Live
  • Children
  • Energy

• BASE jumping is skydiving from fixed objects, like buildings, antennae, bridges and earth - meaning mountains, cliffs. It's for sure - for me - it's the ultimate feeling of being in free fall, with all the visual references.

  

  Ueli Gegenschatz
  • Free
  • Earth
  • Feeling

• Actually, I used to be a busboy in a strip joint in New York and so I hate strip joints. I'm not that kind of person.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Hate
  • New
  • New York

• Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

  

  Hannah More
  • Sin
  • Drunk
  • Punishment

• The ads all call me fearless, but that's just publicity. Anyone who thinks I'm not scared out of my mind whenever I do one of my stunts is crazier than I am.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Scared
  • Fearless
  • Publicity

• Don't let your hearts grow numb. Stay alert. It is your soul which matters.

  

  Albert Schweitzer
  • Soul

• To make three films out of one shortish book, they have to turn it into an epic, just as 'Lord of the Rings' is an epic. But 'The Hobbit' isn't an epic: its tone is intimate and personal, and although it's full of adventures and excitement, they're on a different scale to those of the bigger book.

  

  John Lanchester
  • Different
  • Book

• …find freedom, aliveness, and power not from what contains, locates, or protects us, but from what dissolves, reveals, and expands us.

  

  Eve Ensler
  • Freedom
  • Protects
  • Locate

• I listen to Bill Stewart play the drums and when I have finished doing that, I listen to Bill Stewart.

  

  Bill Bruford Yes

• I definitely am a huge lover of comedy, and it's only through doing so many comedies that I've realised how much of an influence they've been on me.

  

  Bradley Cooper
  • Comedy

• Any concern too small to be turned into a prayer is too small to be made into a burden.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
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