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“I don't think God is a gender. He presents himself as a father but he comes to us with the tenderness of a mother. In some of the parables, he is the housewife who cleans the house looking for the lost coin.”

Thinking Mother Father House Lost Gender Tenderness Coins Housewife Parables

Author:Max Lucado

“It was not coincidental that we chose what's left If the universe has a will I think we are part of it Tender and precious How many times have I searched for something Found and lost it Since then?”

Ifs Thinking Universe Found Lost Left

Author:Ayumi Hamasaki

“The Christian who drinks cannot win his drinking companions to Christ. The girl who dances will never win her dancing boyfriend! You may think to gain favor and influence with the unsaved by joining with them in the lodge, or attending with them the movies, or by smoking or drinking or playing bridge with them, but you cannot! Worldliness means powerlessness! And that means that every Christian who sells out is guilty of the murder of the poor lost souls that go to Hell because he lost his influence.”

“If you take away the last few years, from my last year in Washington, and you think about my career, there was nothing but hard work. I was in the gym three or four times a day, working on my skills. If we lost a game, and I thought I played bad, I'm staying in the gym to keep shooting. That's what I did. That's what I was known for: I was a gym rat.”

Ifs Thinking Years Hard Lasts Three Games Lost Known Careers Four Hard Work Skills Shooting Staying Gym Last Year Rats Gym Rats

Author:Gilbert Arenas

“Life asks for a preparation as complete as we can afford; the great contest should be fought with spirit but with good temper always; we should never think the game lost while it is still going; and finally we should have the satisfaction of quitting the field able to say: I did my best.”

Thinking Life Should Stills Able Spirit Asks Games Lost Fields Should Have Satisfaction Quitting Preparation Temper Contests

Book:Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

Source: Moods of Life: Popular Psychological Studies of Affairs of Every Day

“I think readers appreciate those of us who stay in the trenches and fight the good fight even when times get tough. I know that I, personally, lost respect for writers who, when there was a downturn in the market, started shouting from the rooftops that they wrote thrillers and suspense novels rather than horror. As far as I'm concerned, those wussboys should sever all ties with the horror community if that's the way they feel and get out of the way so real horror writers can do their work.”

“When a candidate for public office faces the voters he does not face men of sense; he faces a mob of men whose chief distinguishing mark is the fact that they are quite incapable of weighing ideas, or even of comprehending any save the most elemental - men whose whole thinking is done in terms of emotion, and whose dominant emotion is dread of what they cannot understand. So confronted, the candidate must either bark with the pack or be lost... All the odds are on the man who is, intrinsically, the most devious and mediocre.”

“All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook, all day on lake or river, while he takes his sport, he thinks. All the long evenings in camp, or cottage, or inn, he tells stories of his own life, hears stories of his friend's lives, and if alone calls up the magic of memory.”

Ifs Thinking Long Stories Would Be Lost Sports Hours Memories Magic Sea Rivers Fishes Boat Evening Charm Lakes Fishing Camps Brooks Cottages Inns Anglers

Book:I Go A-fishing

Source: I Go A-fishing

“It's extreme. The character comes back from the dead, and, at first he doesn't know where he is, how he got there.... How does that tie in with the physicality? I just didn't think he should be too healthy-looking, so I lost some weight for the role.”

Thinking Knows Should Firsts Doe Character Lost Roles Healthy Weight Extremes Ties Physicality

Author:Brandon Lee

“The Western world generally has lost the concept of man as a creature made to the image and likeness of God, and reduced him either to a component part of the universe, to an economic animal or to a "physiological bag filled with psychological libido." Once man became materialized and atomized in Western thinking, it was only natural for a totalitarianism to arise to gather up the fragments into a new totality and substitute the collective man for the individual man who was isolated from all social responsibilities.”

“Caron, Even though you just got here a few months ago, We've grown so close over these last few weeks And, I can remember, When you first got here, You wrote a piece of paper in my locker... I don't know why I'm crying so much man... You wrote a piece of paper in my locker that said, "KD MVP." And that's after we had lost two or three straight. And I don't really say much in those moments, But I remember that. I go home and I think about that stuff man. When you got people behind you, You can do whatever. And I thank you man, I appreciate you.”

“Most power is lost in one's own mind by thinking negative thoughts, by worrying about the future, by focusing on the past, as opposed to thinking positive, strong, and happy thoughts.”

Thinking Mind Past Lost Strong Worry Losing Negative Mysticism Negative Thoughts Think Positive Losing Power Happy Thoughts Thinking Negative

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Seriously, the Olympic badminton players were apparently trying to lose on purpose, a big story. But really, think about it, if you train day and night for four years to be in the Olympics for badminton, in a way, haven't you already lost?”

Ifs Thinking Way Trying Years Stories Bigs Funny Purpose Night Lost Loses Four Player Havens Train Four Years Olympics Day And Night London Olympics Badminton

Author:Conan O'Brien

“Staying in the present is the key to any golfer's game: once you start thinking about a shot you just messed up or what you have to do on the next nine to catch somebody, you're lost.”

Thinking Next Games Lost Keys Shots Golf Nine Staying Golfers Messed Up

Author:Paul Azinger

“Sometimes when you hear so much and everybody is praising you, you can get lost in that. You can start thinking that you are on a higher pedestal than everyone else. So I try to stay level headed, humble and the best way to do that is to not really acknowledge it that much. I just keep grinding and working as hard as I can. I also set my goals higher so that I don't have time to be content with my place in life and in my career.”

Thinking Way Trying I Can Sometimes Hard Lost Goal Levels Careers Higher Praise Humble Best Way Acknowledge Pedestal Place In Life Level Headed

Author:Kevin Hart

“For me honestly I think that fight was lost six weeks before the fight even began”

Thinking Fighting Lost Week Six Honestly

Author:Rich Franklin

“Over the years, TV has gotten so much better, especially with the advent of cable. The bar has been raised. I think HBO really set the standard with The Sopranos, and then on mainstream TV, shows like Lost broke amazing ground.”

Thinking Years Has Beens Shows Lost Tvs Standards Raised Bars Broke Mainstream Tv Shows Cables Advent Hbo Sopranos

Author:Nestor Carbonell

“I think 'The Lost World' could've been a successful movie except for the fact that it pre-dated the good special effects and computer graphics.”

Thinking World Facts Lost Successful Special Effects Computer Special Effects Computer Graphics

Author:John Rhys-Davies

“I'm just confused as to where we lost that in America because it is everyone's God-given right to think the way they think and that's fine. That's why our ancestors came here to America, to believe what they want, pray how they want and follow a religion with whoever they want.”

Thinking Way Want Believe America Lost Given Fine Praying Confused Ancestor

Author:Angie Harmon

“Perhaps every generation thinks of itself as a lost generation and perhaps every generation is right.”

Thinking Lost Generations Lost Generation

Book:Fear of Fifty

Source: Fear of Fifty

“People have never lost what they think they have.”

People Thinking Lost Loss

Book:Parents and children

Source: Parents and children

“Think that day lost whose descending sun, views from thy hand no noble action done.”

Thinking Done Hands Action Lost Views Sun Noble Descending

Author:Joseph Joubert

“As we got more interested in time management and productivity, we lost the individual, and with that individual loss, we lost happiness as well. So I think the world has actually been malnourished as we've focused so much on productivity and ignored happiness and meaning to our own detriment.”

Thinking World Wells Individual Lost Loss Management Focused Productivity Time Management Ignored

Author:Shawn Achor

“I love books that create worlds for me that I don't want to leave. I recently lost my entire life to Haruki Murakami - 1Q84. I tell people that book ruined my life in the best possible way. I couldn't think of anything else for weeks after I read it.”

People Thinking World Way Want Book Lost Week Ruined

Author:Sarah Kay

“I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.”

Thinking Would Be Pain Lost Wish Realizing Emotional Arms Legs Disability Physical Pain True Things Mental Pain

Author:Nick Vujicic

“We sometimes get lost in a bubble... when you get to a certain age you're always thinking about the old days and how it wasn't like that then. Well, yeah, that's great and it's very nostalgic and all that, but actually the world has moved on.”

Thinking World Wells Sometimes Age Certain Lost Yeah Moved Bubbles Old Days Nostalgic Moved On Always Thinking

Author:Ray Winstone

“We live in the best of worlds. But still, it's like we've lost something on the way to here: a sense of life. I can't know for sure, I might be the only one who's lost it. Maybe everybody else is living the now, thinking they're having it well. Anyhow, that motivated me to write the books.”

Thinking Knows World Way Writing Wells Stills I Can Book Might Lost Motivated

Author:Karl Ove Knausgard

“it is when you are really living in the present-working, thinking, lost, absorbed in something you care about very much, that you are living spiritually.”

Thinking Moments Care Lost Live In The Moment Live In The Present Really Living

Book:If You Want to Write

Source: If You Want to Write

“I don't think, until you've actually lost somebody you really love, that you can go through that door that allows you to be grown-up.”

Thinking Lost Doors

Author:Felicity Kendal

“Do you think that clothes have a life of their own, and maybe have unsuitable affairs with opposite styles? I mean - you look at some people - their clothes go on flirting long after the people inside them have lost interest.”

People Thinking Looks Mean Long Lost Interest Style Goes On Clothes Opposites Affair Flirting

Author:Margaret Mahy

“Now that all the members of the press are so delighted I lost, I'd like to make a statement. As I leave you I want you to know -just think how much you'll be missing. You won't have Nixon to kick around anymore because, gentlemen, this is my last press conference.”

Thinking Knows Want Lasts Lost Missing Politician Members Presses Statements Gentleman Kicks I Want You Conferences Delighted Press Conferences

Author:Richard M. Nixon

“I think grieving is the same for everybody that lost someone you love deeply. It's the same. You know, you're really no different than anybody else who's lost somebody they adored.”

Thinking Knows Different Lost Grieving Deep Love One You Love Someone You Love Lost Someone

Author:Lee Radziwill

“I'm a big kid. I never lost my childlike appreciation of things. Too many people lock it out and throw their toys away and say, okay, I'm gonna grow up and be grumpy and miserable and not think about the magical side of things anymore -- and I can't seem to stop doing that.”

People Thinking I Can Bigs Seems Kids Lost Grows Sides Growing Up Okay Appreciation Miserable Toys Locks Childlike Grumpy

Author:Andy Partridge

“I think writing letters is a lost art, but nowadays it's something that means even more, because it's so easy to communicate in so many different ways. But I find a love letter can even be a little post-it note stuck in your pocket, with a sentence or a few words.”

Thinking Way Writing Mean Littles Art Different Lost Easy Letters Notes Communicate Sentences Stuck Posts Different Ways Pockets Few Words Love Letter Lost Art Post It Notes

Author:Hilary Swank

“in this great war [WWI] ... they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. The freedom to think hopefully of the future.”

Thinking War Hope Lost Sides Hopefully Great War Wwi

Author:Jacqueline Winspear

“But I feel truly wowed by the architecture and the meaning of the architecture if you get lost in it and think about the man hours in the smallest little chapel, and the love involved. God its fantastic.”

Ifs Thinking Men Feels Littles Lost Hours He Man Involved Architecture Fantastic Smallest Chapel

Author:Paul Bettany

“I think the legacy we leave is our family. I don't think it's money. I don't think it's - I'm not saying that charity isn't a great thing. I just think that it's my family. Even now I look and I think, God, I'm lucky if I lost it all.”

Ifs Thinking Looks Lost Lucky My Family Charity Great Things Legacy Our Family

Author:Michael Buble

“One thing that I think never goes out of style is just purity. Niceness and purity. And the Muppets have never lost that. Kermit especially is just wide-eyed wonder, unblinking. And he cant blink. Which I think probably helps.”

Thinking Helping Lost Wonder One Thing Style Wide Purity Cant Blink Niceness Muppet

Author:Jason Segel

“A refugee is not just someone lacking in money and everything else. A refugee is vulnerable to the slightest touch: he has lost his country, his friends, his earthly belongings. He is a stranger, sick at heart. He is suspicious; he feels misunderstood. If people smile, he thinks they ridicule him; if they look serious, he thinks they don't like him. He is a full-grown tree in the dangerous process of being transplanted, with the chance of possibly not being able to take root in the new soil.”

“Also, think about your intentionality - are you getting lost in the method? or coming from the intentionality, the purpose? You don't want to do the mechanics without the consciousness.”

Thinking Want Purpose Lost Consciousness Communication Method Mechanic Nonviolent Communication Getting Lost Intentionality

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“Neither should we forget the mean, which at the present day is lost sight of in perverted forms of government; for many practices which appear to be democratical are the ruin of democracies, . . Those who think that all virtue is to be found in their own party principles push matters to extremes; they do not consider that disproportion destroys a state.”

Thinking Should Mean Matter States Government Form Found Lost Forget Party Principles Practice Virtue Democracy Sight Extremes Ruins Forms Of Government Present Day

Book:Politics

Source: Politics

“And so you must grant to God what is God and not try to think of what you have lost, for that way is madness.”

Thinking Way Trying Lost Madness Grants

Author:Joyce Carol Oates

“But I do think its unwise, and it - to build a mosque at the site where 3,000 Americans lost their lives as a result of a terrorist attack. And I think to me it demonstrates that the - that Washington, the White House, the administration, the President himself seems to be disconnected from the mainstream of America.”

Thinking Seems America House Lost President White Results Terrorist Administration White House Mainstream Site Disconnected Mosques Terrorist Attacks Unwise

Author:John Cornyn

“There's not a lot of room for un-ironic emotion in contemporary culture. I think that irony is an important tool in dealing with the world as we find it. It's a tool of protection, but it can also be a tool of incision to get to some truth. But along the way maybe we've lost some of what I think of as the power of straightforward emotion and earnestness and seriousness.”

Thinking World Way Important Culture Lost Rooms Emotion Tools Protection Contemporary Irony Ironic Seriousness Straightforward Earnestness

Author:John Green

“My books depend on someone in danger, putting pieces together and figuring things out. They do a lot of thinking, and that gets lost in the movie.”

Thinking Book Together Lost Pieces Danger Depends Figuring Things

Author:Stephen King

“That's what does it-- that moment where you think you're lost, and then discover that you're not, that you've never really left. There's something that happens in that incredible tiny no-time, and that something is like the revelation of learning.”

Thinking Doe Moments Happens Lost Left Incredibles Tiny Revelations That Moment

Author:Steven Brust

“I'm envious of the way that electronic dance music has organised itself. It has been able to understand what it ain't rather than what it is. And I think that slipped away from hip-hop as soon as the DJs lost the majority of the say so in the direction of the music.”

Thinking Way Has Beens Able Lost Majority Hip Hop Hips Hops Envious Djs Dance Music Organised

Author:Chuck D

“My paintings are well-painted, not nimbly but patiently. My painting contains in it the message of pain. I think that at least a few people are interested in it. It's not revolutionary. Why keep wishing for it to be belligerent? I can't. Painting completed my life. I lost three children and a series of other things that would have fulfilled my horrible life. My painting took the place of all of this. I think work is the best.”

People Thinking Wells Children I Can Pain Three Lost Wish Painting Messages Series Horrible Revolutionary Fulfilled Horrible Life

Author:Frida Kahlo

“It's not possible to be close to God without thinking about the lost. They never leave His mind.”

Thinking Mind Lost

Author:Christine Caine

“I don't think the people today who start hearing voices, stop eating and sleeping, and run amuck are likely to get good treatment. Having more knowledge, better diagnostic capabilities, better medications with fewer side effects, can't make up for the fact that most patients are being treated by doctors, therapists, and hospitals, who are operating under constraints and incentives that reward non-treatment, non-hospitalization, non-therapy, non-follow-up, non-care. Lost to follow-up is the best outcome a health insurer can hope for.”

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