John Michael Montgomery Quotes
If you've got faith and you believe in what you are living for, you can stand your ground when the Devil's at your door.
Quotes to Explore
-
Albania is at risk and we are living in difficult times.
-
What I do for a living is listen.
-
It took me years to learn that sentences in fiction must do much more than stand around and look pretty.
-
I was the big, bossy older sister, full of enthusiasms, mad fantasies, desperate urges to be famous, and anxious to be a saint - a settled sort of saint, not one who might have to suffer or die for her faith.
-
I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
-
I'm half Puerto Rican and half Jewish and so, in some ways, living in many worlds at once is where I feel most at home.
-
I think about my dwindling anonymity, and that's really scary because a very large part of me would be perfectly happy living on a ranch in Colorado and having babies and chickens and horses – which I will do anyway.
-
We stand for free speech. This means we are not going to ban distasteful subreddits. We will not ban legal content even if we find it odious or if we personally condemn it.
-
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
-
The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
-
In every living thing there is the desire for love.
-
My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.
-
He believed in walking beautifully, elegantly. It had to work as a kind of faith that he would get to the other side. He had fallen once while training - once exactly, so he felt it couldn't happen again, it was beyond possibility. A single flaw was necessary anyway. In any work of beauty there had to be one small thread left hanging.
-
I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.
-
Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.
-
Interreligious dialogue in the strict sense of the term is not possible without putting one's own faith into parentheses.
-
So when the only domestic social policy is tax cuts that mostly benefit the wealthiest Americans, we say, 'Where is faith being put into action here?'
-
Many have a vague idea that they must make some wonderful effort in order to gain the favor of God. But all self-dependence is vain. It is only by connecting with Jesus through faith that the sinner becomes a hopeful, believing child of God.
-
Work is about more than making a living, as vital as that is. It's fundamental to human dignity, to our sense of self-worth as useful, independent, free people.
-
When we moved to England in 1986, I was ten years old and I didn't know anything about punk or hip hop. The only words I knew in English were 'dance' and 'Michael Jackson.' We got put in a flat in Mitchum, and the council gave us second hand furniture, second hand clothes and a second hand radio that I took to bed with me every night.
-
I remember always looking forward to listening to country music in the car with my mother, and it wasn't even something I enjoyed in the sense of music, but just being around music itself was enough.
-
The best drink I've ever had was a mojito in St. Barts at Nikki Beach. That drink changed my life.
-
If you've got faith and you believe in what you are living for, you can stand your ground when the Devil's at your door.
