Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

His hunger for knowledge gave him no rest, it was both his bane and his joy.

Elizabeth Goudge

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• My finances have been decimated by a group of people, such as my ex-attorney, my ex-business manager, and an estate planner, specifically. And they have conspired together to - to co-op my corporations, put in trustees without my knowledge.

  

  Randy Quaid
  • People
  • Business
  • Together

• We give you the facts. I told you information is power - knowledge is power. We can't be in an ideological battle to redeem the soul of this country if we don't have the facts.

  

  Tavis Smiley
  • Country
  • Power
  • Soul

• I've got pretty good knowledge about pass rushing. But I know I have a lot to work on.

  

  Malik Jackson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Pretty

• I think it's difficult for young people to acknowledge being smart, to knowledge being a reader. I see kids who are embarrassed to read books. They're embarrassed to have people see them doing it.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • People
  • Kids
  • Knowledge

• I think that peace is, in many ways, a precondition of joy.

  

  Yo-Yo Ma
  • Think
  • Peace
  • Joy

• Wisdom is knowledge which has become a part of one's being.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Knowledge
  • Wisdom
  • Become

• Right now, doctors can test for about 2,500 medical conditions, but they only can treat about 500 of those. So what do you do with the knowledge about the others?

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Knowledge
  • Treat
  • Medical

• Love is a force more formidable than any other. It is invisible - it cannot be seen or measured, yet it is powerful enough to transform you in a moment, and offer you more joy than any material possession could.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • Love
  • Joy
  • Force

• Be certain of this: that the highest aim of creation and its most important result are belief in God. The most exalted rank in humanity and its highest degree are the knowledge of God contained within belief in God.

  

  Said Nursi
  • God
  • Important
  • Knowledge

• When an unbaked pot is broken, the potter can use the mud to make a new one; but when a baked one is broken, he cannot do the same any longer. So when a person dies in a state of ignorance, he is born again; but when he becomes well baked in the fire of true knowledge and dies a perfect man, he is not born again.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • True
  • Knowledge
  • Perfect

• All ordinary expression may be explained causally, but creative expression which is the absolute contrary of ordinary expression, will be forever hidden from human knowledge.

  

  Carl Jung
  • May
  • Knowledge
  • Forever

• There was a night when winds from unknown spaces whirled us irresistibly into limitless vacum beyond all thought and entity. Perceptions of the most maddeningly untransmissible sort thronged upon us; perceptions of infinity which at the time convulsed us with joy, yet which are now partly lost to my memory and partly incapable of presentation to others.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Time
  • Night
  • Lost

• Knowledge is not happiness, and science But an exchange of ignorance for that Which is another kind of ignorance.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Science
  • Knowledge
  • Ignorance

• Pure and complete sorrow is as impossible as pure and complete joy.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • Joy

• 'Hudson Valley Ballers' is just the joy of my life.

  

  Paula Pell
  • Life
  • Joy

• A paradigm shift, where, in addition to physical inputs for farming, a focused emphasis placed on knowledge inputs can be a promising way forward. This knowledge-based approach will bring immense returns, particularly in rain fed and dry land farming areas.

  

  Pratibha Patil
  • Knowledge
  • Rain

• Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

  

  Daniel J. Boorstin
  • Fun
  • Knowledge
  • Technology

• Black people have always been more than our pain. The joy is so much a part of how we have survived and thrived.

  

  DeRay Mckesson
  • People
  • Black
  • Pain

• We agree in principle. That's clear. But take The opposing law and make a peristyle, And from the peristyle project a masque Beyond the planets. Thus, our bawdiness, Unpurged by epitaph, indulged at last, Is equally converted into palms, Squiggling like saxophones. And palm for palm, Madame, we are where we began.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Law

• People have all this interest in food. But for most people, it's a mystery how to prepare food. I wanted the knowledge cooks know: the in-your-fingers knowledge you get by doing it over and over.

  

  Bill Buford
  • People
  • Knowledge
  • Food

• I feel lucky every day. But I can also trace that luck back to decisions I have made. Frequently, those decisions have been to pay my own way to somewhere I want to be and something I want to do.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Day
  • Luck
  • Decisions

• I spend a lot of time working as a painter and in my studio I go from upstairs where I paint to downstairs where I play and record, so I get this thing crossing over.

  

  Andy Summers The Police
  • Time

• When we read a book, we have a blurry image that's kind of physical but blurry. But we have an emotional image also. We have an emotional connection to the character.

  

  Niels Arden Oplev
  • Character
  • Book
  • Connection

• His hunger for knowledge gave him no rest, it was both his bane and his joy.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Knowledge
  • Joy
  • Hunger