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E. Stanley Jones Quotes

Prayer is commitment. We don't merely co-operate with God with certain things held back within. We, the total person, co-operate. This means that co-operation equals committment.

E. Stanley Jones

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: theologian
Nationality: american
Birth: 1894 - 1973

Topics

God Commitment Prayer Back Person

On balance, my life has been a constant stream of blessings rather than disappointments and failures and tragedies. I wish I had been re-elected. I think I could have kept our country at peace. I think I could have consolidated what we achieved at Camp David with a treaty between Israel and the Palestinians.

Jimmy Carter

Life Peace Balance Think Wish

Under the Timber and Stone Act of 1878, which might well have been called the 'Dust and Ashes Act,' any citizen of the United States could take up one hundred and sixty acres of timber land and, by paying two dollars and a half an acre for it, obtain title.

John Muir

Stone Citizen Land Sixty Dust Up

I never get tired of hearing compliments.

John Lithgow

Tired Compliments Never Hearing Get

I worked very hard and I earned all the attention I'm getting.

Anna Kournikova

Attention Hard Earned Very Getting

Our Cuba policy didn't make much sense during the Cold War and makes even less sense now.

Stephen M. Walt

War Cold Now Cuba Policy Cold War

Nothing is more linear than a street; nothing has a more fixed beginning, middle, and end.

Steve Erickson

Beginning End Street Nothing More

I really feel like you shouldn't make a movie as a kind of exercise. You have to be all the way in.

Ron Howard

Feel Exercise You Kind Way Like

Psychology keeps trying to vindicate human nature. History keeps undermining the effort.

Mason Cooley

Nature History Effort Human Nature

I've realised that if I aim for a successful record, I probably won't have any success. But if I keep making weird things, then hopefully the audiences will come to us.

Diplo

Success Weird Aim Will Successful

Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success... he is in my blood.

Dhanush

Love Success Failure Music Food

Gerard is just like me, but two meters tall. We're very alike; it's not for nothing that we were born on the same day, it's just that he was born 10 years later... he's a happy guy, healthy here, in the head.

Shakira

Day Happy Me Born Healthy Nothing

I drink because I'm thirsty.

Shane MacGowan

Drink Thirsty Because