Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.
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Being a star has made it possible for me to get insulted in places where the average Negro could never hope to go and get insulted.
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On my tombstone, I want written: 'He never did 'Love Boat!'
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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Quite often I play roles that require quite a degree of emotional exposure, and they can be very difficult to do.
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Like the shock of fondling a raw sausage, blindfold, at a gay party.
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Chess is an infinitely complex game, which one can play in infinitely numerous and varied ways.
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The love of power is the demon of mankind.
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I presume that you are compassionate: to be without pity means to be sick in body and spirit. But one should have spirit in abundance, so as to be permitted to be compassionate! For your pity is detrimental to you and to everyone.
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I believe that, that Christ became sin for us.
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We must work passionately and indefatigably to bridge the gulf between our scientific progress and our moral progress. One of the great problems of mankind is that we suffer from a poverty of the spirit which stands in glaring contrast to our scientific and technological abundance. The richer we have become materially, the poorer we have become morally and spiritually.
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It's easy for someone to joke about scars if they've never been cut.
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I know Eddie would want the show to go on.
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Stressful jobs, loveless marriages, bad food-most people kill themselves slowly every day.
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I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.
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It would be very nice if there were a God who created the world and was a benevolent providence, and if there were a moral order in the universe and an after-life; but it is a very striking fact that all this is exactly as we are bound to wish it to be.
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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
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He was a convinced but hardworked rationalist, always hard at it re-convincing himself of his convictions.
