Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied.
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My dear brothers, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry, for man's anger does not bring about the righteous life that God desires.
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Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Of heroes little known, and call the rant A history.
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The right question is usually more important than the right answer.
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To me, it's always a luxury to be able to work with the best of the best because they make it easier for you to do what you do.
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Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.
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She knows who she is, because she knows who she isn't.
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An object that is at rest will tend to stay at rest. An object that is in motion will tend to stay in motion.
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The person who did this to these two needs to pay for it. He will never bring my son back or Sebastian back, but I want justice done.
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I was vegetarian, trying to eat from fast-food restaurants without meat. I didn't know how to eat properly and I was starving. I was adrenalized to the eyeballs from performing. I was afraid that I was sick with AIDS. We were playing five shows a week. I even went through a period of abstinence where I didn't drink and stopped having sex. Which is crazy. Maybe I'm answering too many questions at once here, but this is where my mind was at the age of 25.
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I feel like I've had a lot of painful situations that I intentionally delete from my memory.
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You can't change where you come from, but you can change where you go from here. Just like a book. If you don't like the ending, you make up a new one.
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Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble....In no Book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant, and by teaching all the same they will speak alike, and the Bible will justly remain the standard of language as well as of faith.
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All that could run or leap or swim Whether in wood, water or cloud, Acclaiming, proclaiming, declaiming Him.
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When I flew from Orlando to Los Angeles in 1960, I sat next to a guy from Disney who was paying 75ยข an acre for land. I thought he was some special kind of fool - and since they built the park, history has proven there was a fool sitting in one of our seats.
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Let reverence for the laws, be breathed by every American mother, to the lisping babe, that prattles on her lap - let it be taught in schools, in seminaries, and in colleges; let it be written in Primmers, spelling books, and in Almanacs; let it be preached from the pulpit, proclaimed in legislative halls, and enforced in courts of justice.
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I still do mostly listen to CDs. I think that every format really is a different way of listening. If you take a different sort of psychological stance to it - like, I think the transition from vinyl to CD definitely marked a difference in the way people treated music. The vinyl commands a certain kind of reverence because it's a big object and quite fragile so you handle it rather carefully, and it's expensive so you pay attention to how it's looked after.
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What is the distinguishing mark of an aristocrat?' she asked him suddenly.'Reverence,' he replied.
