Elizabeth Goudge Quotes
Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid.
Quotes to Explore
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Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.
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Today, I guess I give a lot more thought to the roles before I sign them.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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We are wedded to freedom of expression and shall do nothing to diminish that freedom.
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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.
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I had stories that needed more space than the hour and a half or two hours a movie gives you.
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We were then satisfied that, with proper lubrication and better adjustments, a little more power could be expected. The completion of the motor according to drawing was, therefore, proceeded with at once.
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If a strong government finds that it can, with impunity, destroy a weak people, then the hour has struck for that weak people to appeal to the League of Nations to give its judgment in all freedom. God and history will remember your judgment.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I love America a lot. I really do.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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If you're looking for the safe choice, you shouldn't be supporting a black guy named Barack Obama to be the next leader of the free world.
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I am an Air Force brat - that's the terminology they use for military kids who are traveling constantly.
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... social roles vary in the extent to which it is culturally permissible to express ambivalence or negative feelings toward them.Ambivalence can be admitted most readily toward those roles that are optional, least where they are considered primary. Thus men repress negative feelings toward work and feel freer to express negative feelings toward leisure, sex and marriage, while women are free to express negative feelings toward work but tend to repress them toward family roles.
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If people don't know their pastor, it's easy to put the pastor on a pedestal and depersonalize him or her. It's also easy for pastors, who don't know their congregations, simply to classify congregants as saved or unsaved, involved or not involved, tithers or non-tithers.
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Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave the cave and see things in sunlit clarity as they actually are.
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I was preppy, then suddenly switched around age 14. I asked my mother to go to this vintage store, and she let me buy a leopard swing coat, pink cigarette pants, and lime-green gloves.
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If so many people love me, how come I'm alone?
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Fear is a lonely thing. Even those who love us best cannot get close to us when we are afraid.
