Charles Williams Quotes
Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
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What makes for a good argument, at bottom, is being more prepared than anyone else in that courtroom, and being willing to fight to tell your client's story - the story of why the right view of the law and my client's interests are one and the same.
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I always said I'm not disappointed with Obama because I voted for him because he was black, and as long as he kept being black, I was a happy man.
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Tone can be as important as text.
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Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.
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It's Microsoft versus mankind, with Microsoft having only a slight lead.
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Only those ignorant of what poetry means will ask the question: what is it good for?
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What counts isn't the frame, it's what you put in it.
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There's something so soothing about the hum of Grand Central Station.
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I love the Coen brothers. They're so brilliant, and they always surprise you in one way or another. 'A Serious Man' was awesome. I like stuff like that, that kind of throws you for a loop. It takes you on a journey that is unexpected.
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I have a garden. We have fresh tomatoes and strawberries. People are different here... People out in California, they grow up quicker. They have a lot of excess, and they have a lot more things than we do here in Hungary. There, they start doing makeup when they're 13, when we would still be out in the countryside making sausage.
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A president who aspires to be recognized as a global leader should not personally stake out a foreign-policy goal, commit himself eloquently to its attainment, and then yield the ground when confronted by firm opposition.
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I know, to banish anger altogether from one's breast is a difficult task. It cannot be achieved through pure personal effort. It can be done only by God's grace.
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The mid-day meal is a well-intentioned scheme and has to be implemented effectively.
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You're on your own in college, but you get sheltered a little bit more with the coaching staff and everything.
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In Iraq, many of my female friends were architects and professionals with a lot of power during the 1980s while all the men were at war in Iran.
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I have all sorts of problems and feel discouraged.
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I request the audience to not mix cinema with politics.
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I like to be goofy. I like to make people laugh. I like to have a good time as much as possible.
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I bombed the LSAT and quickly discovered that law school wasn't for me.
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Once you've got a big feminist and political justification for talking about how you went round to Benedict Cumberbatch's house and did period all over his sofa, then there's no reason not to tell that anecdote in the middle of a dinner party.
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We don't really go in for big family dinners, but Scottish people are famously confrontational. It's a cultural thing, so maybe we don't need to have them to clear the air. Also, traditional family food isn't as nice here so there's no payoff for traveling hundreds of miles.
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Many promising reconciliations have broken down because while both parties come prepared to forgive, neither party come prepared to be forgiven.
