Matt Hammitt Quotes

I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

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• Weirdly, often the more I write, the more ideas I have.

  

  Mallory Ortberg
  • Ideas
  • Write
  • More

• The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.

  

  T. E. Lawrence
  • God
  • Look
  • Him

• I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.

  

  Camille Claudel
  • Protect
  • Harm

• What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Game
  • New York
  • Media

• Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

  

  Ian Thorpe
  • Done
  • Question
  • Sometimes

• 'Power' is a very special film for me and is one of the finest films of my career. I have played a character that I have never done before. My role has a lot of comedy.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Character
  • Power
  • Career

• I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Home
  • Values
  • Warrior

• It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.

  

  Barry Jenkins
  • New
  • New York
  • Flying

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.

  

  Patrick deWitt
  • Life
  • Want
  • Justice

• It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • Believe
  • Child
  • Hard

• AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.

  

  Edmund White
  • Sympathy
  • Aids
  • General

• I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • World
  • Friends
  • Most

• For organizations seriously committed to making teamwork a cultural reality, I'm convinced that 'the right people' are the ones who have three virtues in common - humility, hunger, and people smarts.

  

  Patrick Lencioni
  • People
  • Reality
  • Humility

• I'd love to do something at Marvel, but I don't think I would do a seven-movie deal. That's a bit too much for me.

  

  Taron Egerton
  • Movie
  • Think
  • Deal

• You can build a statistical model and that's all well and good, but if you're dealing with a new type of financial instrument, for example, or a new type of situation - then the choices you're making are pretty arbitrary in a lot of respects.

  

  Nate Silver
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Choices

• I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• A philosophical attempt to work out a universal history according to a natural plan directed to achieving the civic union of the human race must be regarded as possible and, indeed, as contributing to this end of Nature.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Work
  • History
  • Nature

• Most of the temptations that come to us to sell the soul come in connection with the getting of money.

  

  William Jennings Bryan
  • Soul
  • Temptation
  • Connections

• The impact of any particular writer on your own work is hard to discern.

  

  Daniel Alarcon
  • Work
  • Writer
  • Impact

• Excellence demands effort and planned, deliberate practice of increasing difficulty

  

  K. Anders Ericsson
  • Practice
  • Effort
  • inspirational

• You ask me if I will not be glad when the last battle is fought, so far as the country is concerned I, of course, must wish for peace, and will be glad when the war is ended, but if I answer for myself alone, I must say that I shall regret to see the war end.

  

  George Armstrong Custer
  • Country
  • War
  • Peace

• To pray is to let God into our lives. He knocks and seeks admittance, not only in the solemn hours of secret prayer. He knocks in the midst of your daily work, your daily struggles, your daily grind. That is when you need Him most.

  

  Ole Hallesby
  • Work
  • God
  • Prayer

• I was writing songs because I needed them, songs about trusting God in difficult circumstances.

  

  Matt Hammitt Sanctus Real
  • God
  • Songs
  • Trusting