James Anthony Froude Quotes
It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.
James Anthony Froude
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I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.
Viggo Mortensen
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I write 'Broad City,' so I connect it to me.
Ilana Glazer
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I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.
Gabrielle Zevin
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Let me go to hell, that's all I ask, and go on cursing them there, and them look down and hear me, that might take some of the shine off their bliss.
Samuel Beckett
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If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.
W. Somerset Maugham
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You eventually get used to looking at girls picking their leotards out of their bums and that sort of stuff.
Adam Garcia
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We're not like pop musicians who have to perform the same top ten tunes every night of a tour.
Oscar Peterson
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If I get too type-cast, that's the worst possible scenario.
Larry Drake
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I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.
R. Kelly
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
Malcolm X
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Human life is everywhere a state in which much is to be endured, and little to be enjoyed.
Samuel Johnson
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What we did not imagine was a Web of people, but a Web of documents.
Dale Dougherty
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Not believing in anything is also a religion.
Cesare Pavese
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The desert Arab found no joy like the joy of voluntarily holding back. He found luxury in abnegation, renunciation, self restraint. He made nakedness of the mind as sensuous as nakedness of the body. He saved his own soul, perhaps, and without danger, but in a hard selfishness.
T. E. Lawrence
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The best assurance any one can have of his interest in God, is doubtless the conformity of his soul to Him. When our heart is once turned into a conformity with the mind of God. when we feel our will conformed to His will, we shall then presently perceive a spirit of adoption within ourselves, teaching us to say, 'Abba, Father.'
Ralph Cudworth
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Hope knows that if great trials are avoided great deeds remain undone and the possibility of growth into greatness of soul is aborted.
Brennan Manning
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Tant pis and tant mieux, being two of the great hinges in French conversation, a stranger would do well to set himself right in the use of them before he gets to Paris.
Laurence Sterne
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It is ill changing the creed to meet each rising temptation. The soul is truer than it seems, and refuses to be trifled with.
James Anthony Froude
