Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

Proud folk separate themselves from others, judging them... To criticize others we must hold them from us, at arm's length so to speak. And then before you know where you are you've pushed them away and you're the poorer.

Elizabeth Goudge

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• Talent is very hot.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Talent
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• Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sad

• I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.

  

  Laura Wasser
  • Law
  • Dad
  • Thought

• I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Time
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• I know: I am a freakish geek. Or is that a geekish freak?

  

  Kara Swisher
  • Freak
  • Geek
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• I think it is important to be a friend to your kids. But it is also equally important to set boundaries. My mother was a strong influence, and so was my dad. My mom was my friend whom I couldn't cross.

  

  Karisma Kapoor
  • Important
  • Kids
  • Mother

• Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.

  

  Carl Friedrich Gauss
  • Science
  • Problem
  • Solution

• I'm not going to lie, I love TV. I watch a ton of it - golf, HGTV, football.

  

  Charles Kelley Lady Antebellum
  • Football
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• The point of a philosophical spirit is to rely primarily upon one's own thinking.

  

  Brendan Myers
  • Thinking
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• I still get a chill when I sing, 'You Don't Own Me.' I find some new feeling in it every time.

  

  Lesley Gore
  • Time
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  • Chill

• Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

  

  John Cusack
  • Sex

• It'd be like a bunch of rivers, the Amazon and the Mississippi and the Congo asking how the Atlantic Ocean might affect them… and the answer is, of course, that they won't be rivers anymore, just currents in the ocean.

  

  Douglas Adams
  • Ocean

• Jesus … look how we live? I'm practically a serf.

  

  James Howard Kunstler
  • Live
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• I just want to make music, I don't want people to talk about me. All I've ever wanted to do was sing. I don't want to be a celebrity. I don't want to be in people's faces, you know, constantly on covers of magazine that I haven't even known I'm on.

  

  Adele
  • People
  • Music
  • Celebrity

• The novelist is required to open his eyes on the world around him and look. If what he sees is not highly edifying, he is still required to look. Then he is required to reproduce, with words, what he sees.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • World
  • Words
  • Eyes

• No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.

  

  Sir Alfred Jules "Freddie" Ayer
  • Morality
  • Ethics
  • Divine

• Maybe he overreacted a bit." - "A bit? That's like Hitler saying, 'Oooh, I just meant to go for a little walk, but then I accidentally invaded Poland".

  

  Louise Rennison
  • Littles
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• In lieu of those checks and balances central to our legal system, non-citizens face an executive that is now investigator, prosecutor, judge, jury and jailer or executioner. In an Orwellian twist, Bush's order calls this Soviet-style abomination 'a full and fair trial.'

  

  William Lewis Safir
  • Balance
  • Judging
  • Jury

• Judging on 'The Voice' or the 'X Factor UK' would be great; that would be ideal, really. But I don't think it's going to happen.

  

  Ronan Keating Boyzone
  • Think
  • Judging
  • Happen

• The fact is, when I was 15 and a sophomore at high school, I played on the varsity baseball team for the college.

  

  Johnny Mize
  • College
  • Baseball
  • Played

• One son appears in stereo - a transistor in one ear and the phone in the other.

  

  Erma Bombeck
  • Son
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  • Humorous

• Proud folk separate themselves from others, judging them... To criticize others we must hold them from us, at arm's length so to speak. And then before you know where you are you've pushed them away and you're the poorer.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Judging
  • Separate
  • Pushed