Frederick William Robertson Quotes
My Saviour! fill up the blurred and blotted sketch which my clumsy hand has drawn of a Divine life, with the fullness of Thy perfect picture. I feel the beauty I cannot realize; robe me in Thine unutterable purity.
Frederick William Robertson
Quotes to Explore
I have thought a sufficient measure of civilization is the influence of good women.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
At one point, I had a story accepted at the 'New Yorker,' which sent off weird bells in people when I told them - 'Oh,' they thought, 'now you are a writer' - where I really had been for the last 30-odd years.
Karen Bender
I feel pressure, but my emotions just don't show that much in my face.
Inbee Park
Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
Harry Browne
I have a funny family, but none of them are remotely in show business.
Wanda Sykes
There will be the 5% on the fringe of any hardcore fanbase that get angry about any change you make to the source material. The truth is that novels, games, comics, and what-have-you are not usually ready to be slapped up on screen as-is.
D. B. Weiss
When you grumble about a taxi being dirty, people your own age will absolutely agree with you, whereas younger people say, 'You should be so lucky to have a taxi - I walk to work!' So I have lots of young friends, who fortunately don't treat me as a guru, a person that knows all the answers.
Ian Mckellen
When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
Laura Donnelly
I really want to try soccer after I retire because I've watched football over the years and I think I could be a good contender.
Usain Bolt
I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
Harold Pinter
I didn't particularly like being objectified.
L'Wren Scott
If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
Ted Williams
In 2009, I traveled to South Sudan with my organization PSI. While there, I visited a local school and met with a group of children who had formed a water club. The group learned about how to treat their drinking water and use proper hygiene practices, such as washing their hands before eating or after going to the bathroom.
Mandy Moore
Even more than dying itself, I'm scared of the horror-movie changes that happen to the human body as it ages. I think of it as a sort of haunted-house effect, living inside a crumbling, creaking structure that is full of ghosts and will, some day, fall down.
Kate Christensen
I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
Dan Deacon
Lebanon, Israel, Ireland, South Africa - wherever there is a bleeding sore on the body of the world, the same hard-eyed narrow-minded fanatics are busy, indifferent to life, in love with death.
J. M. Coetzee
Sometimes I feel I hope I am not taking advantage of my stardom.
Salman Khan
A goal is a dream with a deadline.
Napoleon Hill
People say I am cheap, and I don't mind if they do.
Ingvar Kamprad
Of course it is happening inside your head, Harry, but why on earth should that mean that it is not real?
Joanne Rowling
Today, our developed nations live in opulence, excess and waste, with the consequences that our environment is degrading and the climate is wreaked.
Jacques Dubochet
Most of the people who have grabbed hold of climate change and greenhouse gases, pollution, oil dependency - they have another motive, and their motive is to attain the appearance of virtue without having actually done anything virtuous.
P. J. O'Rourke
And what is Life? - An hour-glass on the run,
John Clare
My Saviour! fill up the blurred and blotted sketch which my clumsy hand has drawn of a Divine life, with the fullness of Thy perfect picture. I feel the beauty I cannot realize; robe me in Thine unutterable purity.
Frederick William Robertson
