Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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A small pay discrepancy between men's and women's salaries for the same job may seem inconsequential. But over the years, salary discrimination adds up to a significantly smaller pension.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
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Let everyone try and find that as a result of daily prayer he adds something new to his life, something with which nothing can be compared.
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
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I never considered myself a movie star, and I didn't want to become a movie star, because as soon as you do, you throw away that possibility of playing character. You really do. All of a sudden you're just an entity, you know?
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.
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So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.
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Why did they force us to close the banks? To instil fear in people.And spreading fear is called terrorism.
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'Does the walker choose the path, or the path the walker?'
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If there were no Carl Perkins, there would be no Beatles.
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The sun doesn't determine the brightness of the day, you do.
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To be successful is to be helpful, caring and constructive, to make everything and everyone you touch a little bit better.
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A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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Jean was visited by one of her rare moments of happiness, one of those moments when the goodness of God was so real to her that it was like taste and scent; the rough strong taste of honey in the comb and the scent of water. Her thoughts of God had a homeliness that at times seemed shocking, in spite of their power, which could rescue her from terror or evil with an ease that astonished her.
