John Ortberg Quotes

Gratitude is what we radiate when we experience grace, and the soul was made to run on grace the way a 747 runs on rocket fuel.

John Ortberg

Recitation: by Male by Female

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GratitudeExperienceSoulGraceRun

Docudrama is not really my game, but it's interesting to play real people; it's interesting to play 'real.'

Melissa Leo

PeopleGameInterestingPlayReal

It is not the intelligent woman v. the ignorant woman; nor the white woman v. the black, the brown, and the red, it is not even the cause of woman v. man. Nay, tis woman's strongest vindication for speaking that the world needs to hear her voice.

Anna Julia Cooper

WomanManRedWorldVoiceBlack

I read two mysteries a day when I was a kid. All of Agatha Christie, all of 'Sherlock Holmes.' I've seen every single British detective show ever made.

Maureen Johnson

DayKidTwoSingleSeenBritish

The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

Meriwether Lewis

WeatherThreeFoxDeerTwoAbsence

Despite all our gains in technology, product innovation and world markets, most people are not thriving in the organizations they work for.

Stephen Covey

WorkTechnologyInnovationPeople

If you own face paint and a bulb horn and you're not a circus clown, you might be uncool.

Steve Rushin

FaceYouCircusPaintClownOwn

There is scarcely anything to which I am so feelingly alive as the honour and welfare of my country, and, as a poet, I have no higher enjoyment than singing her sons and daughters.

Robert Burns

I AmSingingCountryAliveAnything

No politician was more maligned than Ronald Reagan.

Michele Bachmann

MorePoliticianThanRonald Reagan

I got into politics a little bit by chance, as a person from the first generation of the Solidarity movement.

Donald Tusk

PoliticsChanceGenerationPerson

I thought I was going to be a professor; then I ran screaming from there into magazine journalism.

Courtney A. Kemp

ThoughtJournalismProfessorGoing

I have a lot of sympathy for young people because I realize how disturbed I was. How would I deal with life in the future? What would I do for a living?

Clyde Tombaugh

LifeFuturePeopleSympathyLiving

There are those who believe Black people possess the secret of joy and that it is this that will sustain them through any spiritual or moral or physical devastation.

Alice Walker

SpiritualJoyPeopleBelieveBlack

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