James M. Gavin famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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You think the world owes you something, and it just doesn't work that way.
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Nothing chastens a planner more than the knowledge that he will have to carry out the plan.
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It's weird - I don't feel like I'm a better or more confident writer because I'm publishing something. I think, for most writers as well, it's like reinventing the wheel every time. I have no idea what I'm doing writing a novel, and in some ways, it's the only way to do it.
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Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.
-- James M. Gavin
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Before one can walk as Christ walked, and talk as He talked, he must first begin to think as Christ thought.
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Promise me you'll always remember: You're braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.
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I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
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God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world.
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The Christian is not obedient unless he is doing all in his power to send the Gospel to the heathen world.
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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Perils as well as privileges attend the higher Christian life. The nearer we come to God, the thicker the hosts of darkness in heavenly places. Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Keeping up appearances is the most expensive thing in the world.
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Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
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