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.Elizabeth Goudge
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
Aaron Taylor-Johnson -
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.
Madeleine M. Kunin -
I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
Dana Carvey -
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.
Iris Apfel -
The moral argument is that we give big business a huge tax break, and why do we do it? To get their jobs.
Sam Brownback -
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.
Mahatma Gandhi
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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.
Damian Lewis -
Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
Francesco Totti -
Nothing was made in Trinidad.
V. S. Naipaul -
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.
Larry Niven -
Our company is very diversified, both in terms of geography and in terms of products.
Baba Kalyani -
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.
Gary Oldman
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Why did they force us to close the banks? To instil fear in people.And spreading fear is called terrorism.
Yanis Varoufakis -
(The Giants) completely dominated us the first go-around. We have a lot at stake and I know the Giants do, too. I think it's a big deal that you play the 15th game of the year and it's for something important. ... I get uptight because you worry about having to play the Giants. I don't like doing that, but we got a lot riding on it and I know New York does too.
Joe Gibbs -
I believe that history is not made by cynics; it is made by realists who are not afraid to dream. Let us be these people.
Tzipi Livni -
He was looking at her with amused suspicion. There was something between them, and even she had to acknowledge that a tame remark about the weather sounded perverse.
Ian Mcewan -
I think that technological tools that filmmakers use to tell stories, in a perfect world, need to become invisible. When it's brand new and it's never been seen before and you're birthing this stuff, it's very much on people's minds.
Robert Zemeckis -
Life is the flower for which love is the honey.
Victor Hugo
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I hope the time is not far off when I shall be able to unite all the wise and educated men of all the countries and establish a uniform regime based on the principles of the Quran which alone are true and which alone can lead men to happiness.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Today President Bush acknowledged that conflicts of interest by securities analysts are a major problem, but he did not articulate a solution.
Eliot Spitzer -
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.
Elizabeth Goudge