Havens Quotes - Page 10

• If you’re following God and haven’t lost much of what you’ve been holding on to - follow a little closer.

  Bob Goff

  Littles, Holding On, Lost

  FaceBook post by Bob Goff from Mar 11, 2014

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• Talent is a process, not a thing. Failure is not proof of an innate limit but rather is an indication of a skill we haven’t yet developed.

  David Shenk

  Skills, Limits, Talent

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• The games haven't even started yet and already there are people complaining about the horrible accommodations at the Sochi Olympic village. Toilets don't flush. The faucets spew discolored water. They say it's like being on a Royal Caribbean cruise.

  Jay Leno

  Games, People, Water

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• All places that the eye of heaven visits Are to a wise man ports and happy havens. Teach thy necessity to reason thus; There is no virtue like necessity.

  William Shakespeare

  Happiness, Wise, Eye

  'Richard II' (1595) act 1, sc. 3, l. 275

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• Obviously a lot has gone on, and I feel I am different person, I haven't had a beer since New Year's, which is pretty big for me.

  Todd Carney

  New Year, Beer, Rugby League

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• If you haven't found something worth dying for, you're not fit to live.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Dying, Fit

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• It's all very well having a great pianist playing but it's no good if you haven't got anyone to get the piano on the stage in the first place, otherwise the pianist would be standing there with no bloody piano to play.

  Ian Holloway

  Football, Play, Piano

  "'If I Fell in a Barrel of Boobs, I'd Come Out Sucking My Thumb!' - the Wisdom of Ian Holloway". www.standard.co.uk. May 24, 2010.

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• The actors today really need the whip hand. They're so lazy. They haven't got the sense of pride in their profession that the less socially elevated musical comedy and music hall people or acrobats have. The theater has never been any good since the actors became gentlemen.

  W. H. Auden

  Pride, Hands, People

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• It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.

  Colin Baker

  Doctors, Lovely, Done

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• I haven't took no punishment. There's nothing cool about taking punishment.

  Floyd Mayweather, Jr.

  Punishment

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One side thinks the president'€™s request for war-making powers is too brazen and even reckless. The other side thinks it is too spineless and probably ineffectual. 'It does not seem to have resonated with anyone,' said Senator Susan Collins, Republican of Maine and a member of the Intelligence Committee. 'I haven't found any colleague who'€™s been enthusiastic about it.'

  Peter Baker

  War, Thinking, President

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• I haven't had to struggle very much. I haven't paid my dues. I think I have been lucky.

  Colin Firth

  Struggle, Thinking, Lucky

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• [...] intelligent people only have a certain amount of time (measured in subjective time spent thinking about religion) to become atheists. After a certain point, if you're smart, have spent time thinking about and defending your religion, and still haven't escaped the grip of Dark Side Epistemology, the inside of your mind ends up as an Escher painting.

  Eliezer Yudkowsky

  Atheist, Smart, Dark

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• But you haven't never loved God nor even nair person. You hard and tough as cowhide. But just the same I knows you. This afternoon you going to roam all over the place without never being satisfied. You going to traipse all around like you haves to find something lost. You going to work yourself up with excitement. Your heart going to beat hard enough to kill you because you don't love and don't have peace. And then some day you going to bust loose and be ruined.

  Carson McCullers

  Atheist, Heart, Afternoon

  Carson McCullers (2010). “The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter”, p.51, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I got some real rough dental work done not long ago, and my mouth's still numb right here [points to the left side of his chin]. So it kind of messes with my speech a little bit, so don't y'all think that I took too many cos I haven't.

  Roy Jones Jr.

  Motivation, Real, Thinking

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• Family is supposed to be our safe haven. Very often, it's the place where we find the deepest heartache.

  Iyanla Vanzant

  Safe Haven, Family Love, Heartache

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• I'm tired of saying, "How wonderful you are!" to fool men who haven't got one-half the sense I've got, and I'm tired of pretending I don't know anything, so men can tell me things and feel important while they're doing it.

  Margaret Mitchell

  Tired, Men, Important

  Margaret Mitchell (2016). “Gone with the Wind”, p.51, Hamilton Books

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• It's pleasant and bothersome and embarrassing all at once. Especially when you haven't done much and are a celebrity.

  Nastassja Kinski

  Done, Embarrassing, Pleasant

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• I was looking in the mirror the other day and I realized I haven't changed much since I was in my twenties. The only difference is I look a whole lot older now.

  George Carlin

  Funny, Mirrors, Differences

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• We design our lives through the power of our choices. We feel most helpless when we've made choices by default, when we haven't designed our lives on our own.

  Richard Bach

  Lynching, Choices, Design

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• Great stories teach you something. That's one reason I haven't slipped into some sort of retirement: I always feel like I'm learning something new.

  Clint Eastwood

  Retirement, Learning Something New, Age

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• I've had aunts and uncles who not only haven't read my books but could hardly believe that I was a writer.

  Robert Cormier

  Uncles, Believe, Book

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• I'm a tireless worker; I don't consider painting a work, it is not an obligation, I do it for pleasure; I haven't found anything that amuses me more than painting.

  Fernando Botero

  Painting, Pleasure, Found

  "10 Things You Didn’t Know About Colombian Artist Fernando Botero" by Veronique de Miguel, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 29, 2013.

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• Be so preoccupied with good will that you haven't room for ill will.

  E. Stanley Jones

  Ill Will, Rooms, Good Will

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• Without question, love in its various permutations is what we need more of in this world. The idea that the concept of marriage will be sullied by same-sex marriage is ridiculous. Heterosexuals haven't been doing that well at it on their own.

  Hugh Hefner

  Sex, Ideas, Needs

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