Charles Givens Quotes

#1. Creation exists to be a place for the covenant that God wants to make with man. The goal of creation is the covenant, the love story of God and man.

Pope Benedict XVI

#2. Doing more of what doesn't work won't make it work any better.

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#3. Hal loathes sky-and-cloud wallpaper because it makes him feel high-altitude and disoriented and sometimes plummeting.

David Foster Wallace

#4. If you want to learn about money, learn from somebody who has a lot of it.

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#5. I'm too much of a 'do it my own way and fuck the rest of the world' kind of guy.

Maya Banks

#6. It's scary being loved. Because life is complicated and all too often it throws you off balance by sending you the right person at the wrong time.

Guillaume Musso

#7. You know what the chain of command is? It's the chain I go get and beat ya with until you realize who's in ruttin' command here!

Adam Baldwin

#8. While you're alive, the IRS will attempt to take what you've made. When you're not, the IRS will attempt to take what it missed.

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#9. Make choices-not excuses.

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#10. I think the age of the modern media campaign has created a new icon, the celebrity-in-chief. Political elections have become wars fought by candidates with opposing values.

Noah Hawley

#11. The rich know that savings are only used to create more money, not to pay bills. I

Robert T. Kiyosaki

#12. You can give illness to her body but you can't take the gypsy out of that girl.

Nikki Rowe

#13. Achieve success in any area of life by identifying the optimum strategies and repeating them until they become habits.

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#14. There is no one best way for parents to become the parents they want to be just as there is no one best way for a child to grow into a contented and contributing member of society.

Timothy Carey

#15. Checkers taught me that a King is a man with another man on top of him. But life taught me that that's actually called a Queen.

Demetri Martin

#16. Morality does not help me. I am a born antinomian. I am one of those who are made for exceptions, not for laws. But while I see that there is nothing wrong in what one does, I see that there is something wrong in what one becomes. It is well to have learned that.

Oscar Wilde

#17. When we speak freely, let us speak plainly, for plain speech is wholesome; especially, plain speech about public affairs and public men.

Albert J. Nock

#18. Success requires first expending ten units of effort to produce one unit of results. Your momentum will then produce ten units of results with each unit of effort.

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#19. Those who claim to write about something larger and more significant than the self sometimes fail to comprehend the dimensions of self.

Sarah Manguso

#20. Get plenty of education. Lead you class in all things. Keep your body clean and strong. Keep your opinions to yourself.

Kurt Vonnegut

#21. Success is the progressive, timely achievement of your stated goals.

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#22. To design the future effectively, you must first let go of your past.

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#23. Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.

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#24. The more specific and measurable your goal, the more quickly you will be able to identify, locate, create, and implement the use of the necessary resources for its achievement.

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