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Each person we meet has the potential to teach us something. ~John C. Maxwell
#quotes #john-c-maxwell #knowledge
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No novel has ever changed anything, as far as I can see. ~Martin Amis
#quotes #martin-amis #novels
I am waiting impatiently for the day when beleaguered, like-minded academics can order James Wolcott's collected essays for their classes. ~Camille Paglia
#quotes #camille-paglia #james-wolcott
I have a folder of scraps and pieces of paper with stuff, ideas for songs from the last 25 years; just little things, maybe early songs that I finished, but didn't think they were good enough. ~Lucinda Williams
#quotes #lucinda-williams #past #music
When I got my band in 1983, I knew what I had to do. If I'm going to have a big band, they're going to have to sound equally as good as what I'm used to hearing. ~Illinois Jacquet
#quotes #illinois-jacquet #music
Success is a journey, not a destination. The doing is often more important than the outcome. ~Arthur Ashe
#quotes #arthur-ashe #motivation
Unnamed entertainment industry moguls are now telling the New York Times that they intend never to work with Mel Gibson again. After all, how dare Mel Gibson challenge the public by producing a film that spurs public discussion, that pushes the envelope, that takes an old story to a new level. How dare Mel Gibson follow his own passion as a filmmaker. How dare he make $20 million on the opening day box office! ~Laura Ingraham
#quotes #laura-ingraham #mel-gibson #new-york #movies
I believe a woman, in order to be a good wife, must be both sensual and maternal. ~Elisabeth Elliot
#quotes #elisabeth-elliot #marriage
Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have to dissolve the self into these larger universal truths, and explore these deeper mysteries. If it's purely autobiographical and ego-driven, it's going to fail. ~Nick Flynn
#quotes #nick-flynn #self #universe #ego
The First Amendment only says "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion." It can disrespect all it wants. ~P. J. O'Rourke
#quotes #p-j-o-rourke #religion #law #government
Listen or thy tongue will keep thee deaf. ~Native American Porverb
#proverbs #native-american-proverbs #listening
proverbiosLife sucks order from a sea of disorder. ~James Gleick
#quotes #james-gleick #life #order
I note that some whom I greatly love and esteem, who are, in my judgment, among the very choicest of God's people, nevertheless, travel most of the way to heaven by night. ~Charles Spurgeon
#quotes #charles-spurgeon #people #god
No matter what you do each day; or in life, doing things God's way is a matter of the heart. ~Elizabeth George
#quotes #elizabeth-george #life #heart #god
In a relationship you have to open yourself up. ~Neil LaBute
#quotes #neil-labute #relationship #love
You may call for peace as loudly as you wish, but where there is no brotherhood there can in the end be no peace. ~Max Lerner
#quotes #max-lerner #peace #brotherhood #wish
People believe that if you can shut your Tourette's off for a period of time, then you can always shut it off. I try to explain to people that if I spent my whole life trying to control my tics, that's all I would have time for. ~Dash Mihok
#quotes #dash-mihok #tourette-s #control
People have to be free to investigate computer security. People have to be free to look for the vulnerabilities and create proof of concept code to show that they are true vulnerabilities in order for us to secure our systems. ~Edward Snowden
#quotes #edward-snowden #computers #privacy
For me, poetry is always a search for order. ~Elizabeth Jennings
#quotes #elizabeth-jennings #poetry #order
The fire you kindle for your enemy often burns yourself more than them. ~Chinese Proverb
#proverbs #chinese-proverbs
It is extraordinary how inventive one can be with ethanol right now. ~Daniel Yergin
#quotes #daniel-yergin
randomYou will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer unless you shut your mind to all worldly desires and temporal affairs. ~Norbert of Xanten
#quotes #norbert-of-xanten
The family is the first economy. If the family breaks down, well, government gets bigger because of the consequences of family breakdown. We see in the neighborhoods where there are no marriages and there are no two-parent families. ~Rick Santorum
#quotes #rick-santorum #government #family