Saint Basil Quotes
Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
Quotes to Explore
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
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People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
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If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
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Women leading means that Congress is working to create jobs, make quality child care more affordable and strengthen the middle class because we understand that America grows the economy and opportunity from the middle out, not the top down.
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As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
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The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.
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A great artist is a great man in a great child.
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I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.
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Comic books are a big passion of mine.
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I grew up around really not-normal people. My family is general Hollywood. They're all artists; they're creative people who are advocates for expressing themselves. But I also have to say I'm not impressed with Hollywood.
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Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
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Doing a lot of drama earlier in my career and now exploring comedy has been a treat for me, and I've had an absolute blast, and I hope to continue.
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Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?
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Every once in a while, I would say, 'I don't want to do this anymore,' and I would go back to third grade, and after six months, I'd say, 'OK, I'm bored. Let's go make a movie.'
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To me, writing is prayer. I pray all the time.
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The cliche is that life is a mountain. You go up, reach the top and then go down.
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If we put together all that we have learned from anthropology and ethnography about primitive men and primitive society, we perceive that the first task of life is to live. Men begin with acts, not with thoughts.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
