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.Saint Basil
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Though intelligence is powerless to modify character, it is a dab hand at finding euphemisms for its weaknesses.
Quentin Crisp -
I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng -
The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.
Mahatma Gandhi -
People say I have my own Cinderella story, and in a way, I guess I do.
Laura Osnes -
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.
S. Jay Olshansky -
'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
C. S. Lewis
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
Ferran Adria -
Entrepreneurs and rowers show characteristics of curiosity and wanting to learn.
Cameron Winklevoss -
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.
Barbara Mikulski -
As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
Taylor Sheridan -
The only way that we can win over potential jihadists to liberal democracy is by winning the battle of ideas.
Maajid Nawaz -
A great artist is a great man in a great child.
Victor Hugo
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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.
Nathan Fillion -
Comic books are a big passion of mine.
Taran Killam -
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.
Dakota Johnson -
Perhaps everything terrible is in its deepest being something helpless that wants help from us.
Rainer Maria Rilke -
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.
Taylor Lautner -
I was the kid at six who was like, 'I want to be in a jazz club.' I was never the pop kid, ever. I mean that's not true, I had a couple years where I wanted to be Tiffany and Debbie Gibson, but aside from that, no.
Rachael MacFarlane
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If you look at space companies, they've failed either because they've had a technical solution where success was not a possible outcome, they were unable to attract a critical mass of talent, or they just ran out of money. The finish line is usually a lot further away than you think.
Elon Musk -
Popular music has always been rooted in the blues, whether it's Adele or Led Zeppelin or Sam Cooke. It's just the beat that changes.
L.A. Reid -
A lot of my friends have told me to read 'Tao Te Ching' - a classic Chinese text on the fundamentals of Taoism.
Billy Howle -
By seeing London, I have seen as much of life as the world can show.
Samuel Johnson -
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.
Saint Basil