Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
Quotes to Explore
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My father opened a restaurant. It's so amazing... it's so freaking delicious, but I'm telling you I gain five pounds every time I go in there.
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Republicans are for both the man and the dollar, but in case of conflict the man before the dollar.
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All human laws are, properly speaking, only declaratory; they have no power over the substance of original justice.
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Whatever life may really be, it is to us an abstraction: for the word is a generalised term to signify that which is common to all animals and plants, and which is not directly operative in the inorganic world.
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People want to come to Pakistan but are not given visas. We wish for visas to be given to those people who want to come to Pakistan.
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Love your neighbor as yourself; but don't take down the fence.
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GIS started on mainframe computers; we could get one map every five to 10 hours, and if we made a mistake, it could take longer. In the early '90s, when people started buying PCs, we migrated to desktop software.
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The BBC is locked to the reading of the economy that is run out of Ed Miliband and Ed Balls' office. They think if only you spend and borrow more money you can create growth everywhere.
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A poet is a professional maker of verbal objects.
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You cannot say we are a healthy, dynamic democracy when one party wins almost two-thirds of the vote.
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But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth; that is the happiness of being truly loved.
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I've always known from the beginning of my acting career that you only get an acting job if you've got something to learn about it. If you don't do it well, you'll be condemned to doing the same role over and over and over again. If you do it mediocre, you'll have to do it again.
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It takes a long time to become young.
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I'm going to write a book, continue acting, continue motivational speaking and just share with people who I am and what I've learned in my second chance of life and pass it on to people in their first chance of life.
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They wouldn't let me into Germany from 1998-2000 because I bumped into the chancellor's daughter on my skateboard.
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I make jam, and oh my God, it is so delicious.
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The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
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I'm sure that President Johnson would never have pursued the war in Vietnam if he'd ever had a Fulbright to Japan, or say Bangkok, or had any feeling for what these people are like and why they acted the way they did. He was completely ignorant.
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Your kids grow up. I think they more than anything are making me feel as if, you know, you want to squeeze everything you got every single day out of this thing. Because it passes quick.
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For the Flower to blossom, you need the right soil as well as the right seed. The same is true to cultivate good thinking.
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If the Bird does not sing, Kill it.
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Accountability breeds response-ability.
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In order to realize the worth of the anchor we need to feel the stress of the storm.
