Quotes about wouldnt (16 Quotes)


    It made me shiver. And I about made up my mind to pray and see if I couldn't try to quit bein the kind of a boy I was and be better. So I kneeled down, But the words wouldn't come. Why wouldnt they It werent no use to try and hide it from Him .... I knowed very well why they wouldnt come. It was because my heart warn't right it was because I warn't square it was because I was playin double. I was lettin on to give up sin, but way inside of me I was holdin on to the biggest one of all. I was tryin to make my mouth say I would do the right thing and the clean thing ... but deep down in me I knowed it was a lie, and He knowed it. You can't pray a lie. I found that out.


    I would love to be in musical theater and be on Broadway. If someone were to offer me a position to do something like that, I wouldnt pass it down. Im a huge fan of musicals and I really want to do that.




    Remember the parable of talentsthe story of the three servants who had received talents, five, two and one respectively When their master returned they all gave account of their stewardship. The first two had doubled their capital. Each of them said so in sixteen words and their work was pronounced, 'Well done, good and faithful servant.' The third servant had accomplished absolutely nothing but his report took forty-three words, three times as long as each of the other two reports. Dont be like servant number three. Make good Dont explain your failure Do the thing you are expected to do Then you wont have to explain why you didn't, couldnt, wouldnt, or shouldnt. Efficiency That is the soul-satisfying joy of making good. Doing your work just a little better than anyone else gives you the margin of success. Making good required no explanation. Failure required forty-three words.


    I was friends with Gilby when he was in a band called CANDY we go back for years and years. We live in the same neighborhood and we have always been in touch. In 1990, we did a tour together with a bunch of people called THE WILD BUNCH . We stayed in touch and he was actually the first person I asked to help me. I trusted him to be supportive. If it sounded bad then I wouldnt be too embarrassed. Gilby is a great guy and I respect his input. When you produce something you need to have someone that you can go, 'What do you think' There is an old joke that says, 'What makes a great producer' The answer is, 'I don't know. What do you think' I was one of those producers who needed reassurance.

    Yeah. Allison Barber, Deputy Assistant Secretary, said, heres the part that I like. 'Okay, so lets work on that answer a little bit, Captain Kennedy. Why dont you work on, 'were working with the Iraqi soldiers, and to my right is Master Sergeant.' And then a little later, 'she says, you know, a few smiles wouldnt hurt back here on the TV. A few smiles.' So-






    About forty percent of the people vote Democrat. About forty percent vote Republican. Of those eighty percent, most wouldnt change their votes if Adolf Hitler was running against Abe Lincoln or against FDR.... That leaves twenty percent of the people who swing back one way or another ... the true independents.... That twenty percent controls the destiny of the country.

    Mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the mid-day sun The Japanese dont care to, the Chinese wouldnt dare to Hindus and Argentines sleep firmly from twelve to one, But Englishmen detest a siesta.



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