Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.
Quotes to Explore
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I think a strong dollar is the result of policies, but I don't think the strong dollar is in and of itself a policy.
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My dad is extremely successful, so I've seen the money and luxury growing up. I'm nowhere close to his stature.
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I love wrestling, but to wrestle just one style for the rest of my life seems like it would really hold me down creatively.
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I firmly believe that any good journalist must essentially be temperamentally an outsider. I don't think full sense of belonging and security is conducive to creativity.
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I like to come up with lots of different sounds. So the final version of a song might have been 10 completely different songs before we finally got it right.
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I was very good in all the maths and sciences.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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Our relationships with our computers are almost sexual, they're so close. They're just such a huge part of our lives.
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The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.
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Congress is attempting to eviscerate women's health care. Like many women across America, I am outraged.
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Don't depend on other people to be responsible for you. Don't make yourself stressed out over nonsensical things like material things.
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I really like one-on-one, rich relationships.
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I think there are certain business matters which we must now conduct differently than we used to.
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One of the reasons I love writing for middle graders, besides their voracious appetite for books, is their deep concern for fairness and morality.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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I find the whole concept of women screaming at me so odd. It's very flattering, but I don't think I will ever consider myself to be a sex symbol.
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Thirty years ago dinner theatre used to be much more of a going concern than it is now.
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Emotionally, I have no picture-book illustrated with memories of my first five years, but externally, I have impressions that possess a haunting vividness comparable only to the texture of dreams, when dreams are tumultuously alive.
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Luckily I don't have a sinful past, because there's nothing you can hide from your kids now.
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Everything depends on whether we have for opponents those French tricksters or those daring rascals, the English. I prefer the English. Frequently their daring can only be described as stupidity. In their eyes it may be pluck and daring.
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I needed to become something besides the star everybody had built me up to be.
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Nothing, until the ground comes up to meet you, and you land in a jumble of pain and shattered bones; and the scream you didn’t think you had in you scrapes your throat raw as you let it out—like the first, shocked breath of a baby newly born into a universe of suffering.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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If a bird is flying for pleasure, it flies with the wind, but if it meets danger it turns and faces the wind, in order that it may rise higher.
