Vance Havner Quotes

Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.

Vance Havner

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GodPeopleMedicineSometimesWell

I have a real sense of optimism that we are revolutionizing the way we do politics in this country.

Joan Blades

PoliticsOptimismCountryWayReal

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.

Joel Edgerton

TimeBeginningBullyingBrotherMe

I guess some people want to be performers because they want to be famous.

Jenny Slate

PeopleFamousWantSome PeopleSome

Each moment in time we have it all, even when we think we don't.

Melody Beattie

TimeMomentThinkEvenEach

Travelling fills me with dread.

Tom Hodgkinson

MeDreadTravellingFills

London sort of wore me down. I can't cope with the winters!

Robyn Davidson

MeDownLondonCopeSortWinters

I have been fighting writing songs for a long time. People keep telling me I should write, and other writers have offered to write with me, and to be honest, it's not something I've ever really had a passion for - plus I wasn't sure I had the talent to do it!

Martina McBride

PassionTimeTalentPeopleMeLong

I play DEA, CIA, FBI, LAPD; I got 'em all.

Dean Norris

PlayFBIGotCIA

I would come, many years later, to understand why 'To Kill A Mockingbird' is considered 'an important novel', but when I first read it at 11, I was simply absorbed by the way it evoked the mysteries of childhood, of treasures discovered in trees, and games played with an exotic summer friend.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

FriendChildhoodTreesSummerWhy

I found out there is a production paradise in Brazil. I was able to make my second collection for less money but without sacrificing quality. More importantly, manufacturing in Brazil also fits in with my global initiative: to provide work and empowerment in a third-world country.

Antonio Brown

WorkMoneyQualityCountryParadise

In a tribal organization, even in time of peace, service to tribe or state predominates over all self seeking; in war, service for the tribe or state becomes supreme, and personal liberty is suspended.

Arthur Keith

TimeServicePeaceWarOrganization

I cling to the basic set of tenets laid out in Tom Wolfe's 'New Journalism' - to get out there like the great French novelists of the 19th century and study life. I am a Tom Wolfe fan of the first order.

Peter York

LifeGreatI AmJournalismNewOut

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