Corrie Ten Boom Quotes

Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

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• In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • World
  • End
  • Dreams

• I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.

  

  Barry Humphries
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Worse

• I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Time
  • School
  • Same

• We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • War
  • Always
  • Progress

• Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.

  

  Edmund Husserl
  • High
  • Understanding
  • Criticism

• I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Way
  • Humor
  • Laugh

• I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.

  

  Lars Larsen
  • Up
  • Started
  • Had

• I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.

  

  Francine Pascal
  • Truth
  • Ideas
  • Memories

• Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.

  

  Walter Huston
  • Good
  • Travel
  • Son

• It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.

  

  Calvin Johnson
  • Time
  • Me
  • Easy

• I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Children
  • Sharp
  • Stairs

• When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.

  

  Eddie Bernice Johnson
  • You
  • Following
  • Many

• Understand that the time in the audition is your time. Really own it and take control of it. And do what you prepared. Focus on really executing what it is that you intended to do.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Time
  • Control
  • Focus

• All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.

  

  Rachel Dratch
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Space

• I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Good
  • Remember
  • Mother

• The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Trying
  • Party
  • Independent

• I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.

  

  Kate Middleton
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.

  

  Padmasree Warrior
  • Men
  • Different
  • Women

• The plainest print cannot be read through a gold eagle.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Read
  • Print
  • Gold Eagle

• By making the place and the people and the feelings real, by the time someone closes the cover of one of my books, they have, hopefully, felt all of the emotions of life.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • People
  • Real
  • Book

• The Premier League is a very strong league. Chelsea, Manchester City, Arsenal, and Liverpool all have a high quality. But those who know me also know that I always want to win titles. And I think that Manchester United are a club which can win titles.

  

  Bastian Schweinsteiger
  • High
  • Strong
  • Me

• In a globalized world, one application can spread like wildfire and there's only one winning company, which means you have to invest more than you've ever had.

  

  Douglas Leone
  • World
  • Winning

• Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux - the wonders.

  

  Denis Villeneuve
  • Writing

• Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Emotion
  • Act
  • Forgiveness