"For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people?"

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Source : Denise Hunter (2014). “Big Sky Romance Collection: A Cowboy's Touch, The Accidental Bride, The Trouble with Cowboys”, p.305, Thomas Nelson Inc

Denise Hunter

#Religious Quotes #Winning Quotes #People Quotes

“If it is right for me, it is right. It is possible that it is wrong for others: let them take care of themselves!”
“That became my aesthetic - a very Chekhovian, American realist aesthetic in the tradition of Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, and Tobias Wolff. The perfectible, realist story that had these somewhat articulate characters, a lot of silence, a lot of obscured suffering, a lot of manliness, a lot of drinking, a lot of divorces. As my writing went on, I shed a lot of those elements.”
“But does Man have any 'right' to spread through the universe? Man is what he is, a wild animal with the will to survive, and (so far) the ability, against all competition. Unless one accepts that, anything one says about morals, war, politics, you name it, is nonsense. Correct morals arise from knowing what man is, not what do-gooders and well-meaning old Aunt Nellies would like him to be. The Universe will let us know - later - whether or not Man has any "right" to expand through it.”
“Reading off a Teleprompter is an easy skill to do passably well and a difficult skill to do very well. I still have room for improvement there. I still talk too fast and I'm trying to slow myself down.”
“The unconscious mind is decidedly simple, unaffected, straightforward and honest. It hasn't got all of this facade, this veneer of what we call adult culture. It's rather simple, rather childish It is direct and free.”

Source : Milton H. Erickson (1992). “The Wisdom of Milton H. Erickson: Human Behavior and Psychotherapy”, p.79, Ardent Media
“I have followed my heart my whole life - the crazy kid, a contrarian by nature, and I've been in trouble in points in my career.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.”
“I want the vetting to be solid. But I also want to bring these people in because not bringing them in sends a message, right, to the Muslim world and plays into the ISIS narrative and the Al Qaeda narrative, right, that this is a war between religions. And we can't have that.”

Source : Source: abcnews.go.com

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