"Steadfastness in believing doth not exclude all temptations from without. When we say a tree is firmly rooted, we do not say the wind never blows upon it."

-- John Owen

#Believe Quotes #Blow Quotes #Wind Quotes

“I was once asked to do my Tarzan yell at Bergdorf Goodman, and a guard burst in with a gun! Now I only do it under controlled circumstances.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Knowing how to age and not being afraid of aging is very healthy.”
“Now is the time for us to stop seeking our own satisfaction and to pour out our lives before HIM.”
“This is a classic story of the friendship between humans and cats. Yes. I got in a lie right from the start!”
“I don't have to be an imitation of a white woman that Hollywood sort of hoped I'd become. I'm me, and I'm like nobody else.”

Source : "Little Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" by Susan Ratcliffe, (p. 208), 2012.
“Every one of us sees 'green' differently. So everything is an approximation of understanding.”
“There is no fate that plans men's lives. Whatever comes to us, good or bad, is usually the result of our own action or lack of action.”

Source : "The Forbes scrapbook of Thoughts on the business of life". Forbes magazine, 1950.
“If one hears bad music, it is one's duty to drown it by one's conversation.”

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