Thomas Aquinas Quotes
If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.Thomas Aquinas
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Racism is a physical experience.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Every person that's in the NBA should experience playing in New York at least once in their career.
J. R. Smith -
College was where I got to actually experience the difference between black and white.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
I have to write what I can write, and writing the text of a picture book is like walking a tightrope, if you ramble off... As my friend Julius Lester says, 'A picture book is the essence of an experience.'
Patricia MacLachlan -
My time at Shell was a most valuable experience because it taught me to look at the world in a long-term way. Shell takes a 20-year view on events and plans for different scenarios. It makes you see the world as a kind of large matrix.
Vince Cable -
I believe life is an 'experience ball.' You throw it at someone, it picks up their response... it grows. You play with that ball, learning what it teaches you.
Vijay Sethupathi
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I had a bad experience doing public speaking at school. I had to talk about a pen for five minutes and it was really hard work. I couldn't wait to get off the stage.
Karl Pilkington -
Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.
Paddy Considine -
To grow up five miles outside of the greatest city in the world is a bizarre experience.
Jack Antonoff Fun. -
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterward.
Vernon Law -
I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.
Gary Neville -
I had no experience with broadcasting basketball games, so I took a tape recorder and went to a playground where there was a summer league, and I stood up in the top of the stands and I called the game.
Ed Bradley
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A mind that is stretched by a new experience can never go back to its old dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
'Narcos' was a very strong experience, not only artistically and politically, but as a human being.
Wagner Moura -
In fact the experience at Oxford has really helped me later in life.
Imran Khan -
Whitley Bay was my first experience of the seaside. I'd buy my bucket and spade, and beach ball, and all the shops were teeming with toys. I used to spend hours on the shuggy boats.
Cherie Lunghi -
At Grinnell College, for the first time in my life, I was in an all-white setting. It was a shocking experience.
Bernice King -
Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.
Mary Baker Eddy
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I think baseball represents something closer to our experience. There's no clock in baseball; it's not over until it's over. It's like life in that there are prolonged periods of boredom and monotony, punctuated by intense moments of excitement and sometimes terror.
Bennett Miller -
'Entourage' is a very, very, very unique acting experience. I could go in to win 1000 Academy Awards, and it would never be as much fun as the show.
Kevin Connolly -
Nobody knew me. They just knew that I was the guy from 'Mission: Impossible.'
Martin Landau -
I swim a lot. I swim most days.
Ben Barnes -
If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.
Thomas Aquinas