Philip Yancey Quotes

For me, prayer is not so much me setting out a shopping list of requests for God to consider as it is a way of 'keeping company with God.'

Philip Yancey

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GodPrayerMeShoppingWayCompany

I think people are confusing the right to write with the right to be published.

John Connolly

PeopleThinkWriteRightConfusing

Individuals fail to recognise how their perennial state of sleep deficiency has come to compromise their mental aptitude and physical vitality, including the slow accumulation of ill health.

Matthew Walker

HealthSleepCompromiseSlowFail

I just want to go out there and have the best matches I possibly can.

Jeff Hardy

BestGoWantOutJustMatches

When I need to decompress, I grab a glass of wine, some popcorn, and a great book.

Shira Goodman

GreatBookWineGlassPopcornNeed

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Robert Frost

WorldLoversQuarrelHad

Half of all women who are sexually active, but do not want to get pregnant, need publicly funded services to help them access public health programs like Medicaid and Title X, the national family planning program.

Louise Slaughter

FamilyWomenHealthPlanningHelp

I chose to continue independent because, at the time I was being offered deals, it wasn't fitting into what I'd imagined. I decided to take a gamble on myself and see what happens.

Little Simz

TimeMyselfIndependentSeeTake

The body must stay fit. Fit people like themselves much better.

Diana Vreeland

PeopleBetterBodyStayMustLike

If you lift the romantic element out of my plots, you still have fully formed mysteries. In the same fashion, if you pull the mystery out of a historical romance, you are left with a perfectly satisfying story.

Deanna Raybourn

RomanticFashionStoryMysteryYou

Elected officials should be held to a higher standard, and we cannot enable misbehavior with a system that secretly settles with public funds.

Brad Schneider

SystemCannotElected OfficialsFunds

I have different hats; I'm a mother, I'm a woman, I'm a human being, I'm an artist and hopefully I'm an advocate. All of those plates are things I spin all the time.

Annie Lennox

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I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.

Willie Stargell

WalkMotionEvenBeforeArmCould

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