Elizabeth Goudge Quotes

I mean, you may cause others a spot of bother by your weaknesses, perhaps, but coping with you may possibly increase their strength and sympathy. But if you sin deliberately, even if it seems only against yourself--well--you won't be the only one to suffer. You may even be the one who suffers least.

Elizabeth Goudge

• Sin
• Weakness
• Sympathy
• Suffer

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• A film is made in somebody's head - out of their determination to do it at all.

  

  D. A. Pennebaker
  • Film
  • Determination
  • Head

• Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.

  

  Victor Grignard
  • First
  • Possible
  • Speaking

• If we want people to vote, we need to make it a larger part of their self-image.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Want
  • Vote

• All of Hollywood was convinced that 'Gone with the Wind' would be a colossal disaster and rather hoped it would be.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Wind
  • Hollywood
  • Disaster

• It's not easy to be my sons because we're very high profile. We try so hard to give them a normal life. I'm very, very tight with them about money. I don't give that money until they ask, 'I need 100 yuan for my lunch card,' and so on. So they never have extra money.

  

  Zhang Xin
  • Life
  • Money
  • High

• Singing is my entire life. I nearly lost that. I am so blessed to be able to do this. It's the only thing I've ever wanted to do.

  

  Aaron Neville
  • Life
  • Lost
  • Singing

• I don't think anybody is a poet 24/7, only in those rare moments when a person is producing a poem.

  

  X. J. Kennedy
  • Think
  • Moments
  • Person

• I had very little in common with and knew even less about a generation that I was supposed to be the voice of.

  

  Bob Dylan

• 'The world? The world is not interested in us. Today, everything is possible, even the crematoria...'

  

  Elie Wiesel
  • World
  • Today

• I haven't made a movie for a while, but I've watched a lot. It's my major waste of time. I like to work, but also to be waiting for work.

  

  Bernardo Bertolucci
  • Time
  • Work
  • Movie

• In truth, I have always been amazed by a group of people who all work toward putting one person's vision forward - that's an interesting story for me.

  

  Jim Rash
  • People
  • Work
  • Truth

• In 1965, I was in Trabzon in eastern Turkey on a Fulbright scholarship. I would get up every morning and walk around the streets and look for photographs.

  

  Mary Ellen Mark
  • Up
  • Morning

• I cannot think such language either right, or becoming, or suitable. ... To call the Virgin Mary the mother of God can only serve to confirm the ignorant in their superstitions.

  

  John Calvin
  • God
  • Mother

• The only freedom that man ever has is when he becomes a slave to Jesus Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Freedom
  • Jesus
  • Slave

• It is like a dream to feel the machine lift you gently up in the air, float smoothly over one spot.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Up
  • Dream
  • Air

• Our salvation comes to us so easily because it cost God so much.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Salvation

• We experience life as a continuity, and only after it falls away, after it becomes the past, do we see its discontinuities. The past, if there is such a thing, is mostly empty space, great expanses of nothing, in which significant persons and events float.

  

  Teju Cole
  • Past
  • Fall
  • Empty

• I weave the shoes of Sorrow: Soundless shall be the footfall light In all men's ears of Sorrow, Sudden and light.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Men
  • Fate
  • Sorrow

• Through every generation of the human race there has been a constant war, a war with fear. Those who have the courage to conquer it are made free and those who are conquered by it are made to suffer until they have the courage to defeat it, or death takes them.

  

  Alexander the Great
  • War
  • Death
  • Courage

• The worst part a man can suffer is to have insight into much and power over nothing.

  

  Herodotus
  • Power
  • Man
  • Suffer

• If we believe that God is everywhere… why should we not believe He is in objects to which so much concentrated devotion is attached? Christians believe in the doctrine of original sin. Hindus believe in the doctrine of acquired sin. But all of us believe that God, by whatever name we call Him, is in the world.

  

  C. Rajagopalachari
  • World
  • God
  • Sin

• I mean, you may cause others a spot of bother by your weaknesses, perhaps, but coping with you may possibly increase their strength and sympathy. But if you sin deliberately, even if it seems only against yourself--well--you won't be the only one to suffer. You may even be the one who suffers least.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Sin
  • Weakness
  • Sympathy