John Ortberg Quotes

Real spiritual authority has to do with the truth of the actual words being spoken, and the spirit of the person behind the words. Really, authority is about truth: honest-living truth.

John Ortberg

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There was no Congressional Club for my first campaign. There was no organized state group of Young Republicans, but there was a dedicated core of young people who volunteered to do anything my campaign needed.

Jesse Helms

PeopleYoungGroupFirstAnything

Art is activism.

Angie Thomas

ArtActivism

I feel there's everything to do yet.

Anish Kapoor

FeelEverythingI Feel

Winning the Revolutionary War, or the Civil War, or World War II were the turning points in our history, the sine qua non of our forward progress.

Stephen Ambrose

HistoryProgressWarWinningWorld

If you file your waste-paper basket for fifty years, you have a public library.

Tony Benn

LibraryYouYearsFiftyBasketYour

Wow. I am really pretentious.

Rob Corddry

I AmWowPretentiousReallyAm

The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth.

Rutherford B. Hayes

BestCompetitionSucceedSurvivalUs

If a French woman wears jeans, it's never with flats - always heels.

Julia Restoin Roitfeld

WomanNeverAlwaysHeelsJeans

I don't think you always get to see a woman on TV who is relatively neurosis-free and, while looking for a relationship, isn't man hunting and isn't cloying and isn't a fashionista.

Jordana Spiro

RelationshipWomanManLookingThink

Yeah, well that's the best thing about it, I think, is knowing kids and kids getting mental when they know you're in it. Any kid you meet and anyone I know tells the kid you're in it and they get short of breath.

David Thewlis

BestThinkShortYouKnowMeet

When money follows results - we will get more results for our money.

Bob Riley

MoneyResultsWillMoreGetOur

Online games for data-mining have a short virtual shelf life. People get bored, especially if the game seems stagnant.

Peter Diamandis

LifePeopleGameShortGamesBored

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