Kent Nerburn Quotes

Love has its own time, its own season, and its own reasons from coming and going. You cannot bribe it or coerce it or reason it into staying. You can only embrace it when it arrives and give it away when it comes to you.

Kent Nerburn

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LoveTimeYouEmbraceReasonOwn

When you sit down with Zynga and Google, and they talk about billions of impressions, you think, music has way more of an emotional connection than technology, but we haven't cracked the code.

Troy Carter

MusicTechnologyThinkYouDownWay

I carry a notebook with me everywhere. But that's only the first step.

Rita Dove

StepMeFirst StepFirstCarryOnly

I decided that I would defy expectations, be it those put on me by society, race, socioeconomic status, or my father.

Michael Tubbs

FatherMeSocietyExpectationsRace

I've been in love before, every love-relationship is tough and it has its challenges.

Josh Hutcherson

LoveChallengesToughBeenBefore

The unbearableness of the future is easier to face than that of the present if only because human foresight is much more destructive than anything that the future can bring about.

Joseph Brodsky

FutureFacePresentMoreHumanOnly

Writers want to be reread. They want to think that their words don't just flash by but deserve some reflection.

Bobbie Ann Mason

ReflectionWordsThinkWantDeserve

What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like and immorality is what they dislike.

Alfred North Whitehead

TimePlaceMoralityHappenDislike

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

GodPrayerMeShoppingWayCompany

Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.

Sylvia Plath

WritingNothingLikePileStinks

No human being is justified before God or has a right standing before God based upon his own virtue and merit. It is only by faith in the virtue and merit of Christ.

Paul Washer

GodFaithVirtueHumanRightOwn

There is no such thing as a criminal life. Life is life, and life is criminalized. No one ever, in the history of life, has chosen a criminal life. No one has ever said, 'I want to be a criminal.' No one ever has done that.

Rhys Ifans

LifeHistorySaidDoneWantChosen

The most important thing at Daytona is, are you going to have friends willing to work with you during the race as far as drafting? You've got to have friends out there. You can't do it alone. You form those relationships as the race moves along.

Mario Andretti

WorkAloneFriendsYouImportant

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