Philip Yancey Quotes
God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
Philip Yancey
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My grandparents never understood why my mother Noreen chose such exotic names for her children: Damon and me. My granny insisted on calling my brother Dermot - a good Irish name - until she died; I was just known as 'wee one.'
Natascha McElhone
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As a young woman, I had been seeking experience, knowledge, truth, the stuff writers need in their work, but when the artist actually kicked in, I came to understand that in this romantic relationship I was not free to be myself, or to find myself, in order to begin the true work I needed to do.
Taiye Selasi
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God forbid that women have fantasies.
E. L. James
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I don't know why you play a team sport and not be concerned about making your teammates better and helping your team win games. That's the only thing that really matters, and if you're the best player, surely you're going to have some effect on the game's outcome.
Larry Brown
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
Saint Bernard
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I never considered myself a fall guy. I know what I did. I know why I did it. I'm not ashamed of it.
Oliver North
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I am not sure why, but I have been obsessed by the Atom Bomb ever since it first happened.
Lanford Wilson
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I'm a crier. I always cry. I cry at the dumbest things, too. This is why I sort of steer clear of movies and films that I know are going to be depressing. I don't care how many awards they've won - I know they're good. I don't need to watch them, because I don't want to be depressed, and I don't want to cry.
Yvonne Strahovski
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
Faith Evans
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Lebanon was under Israeli occupation, up to its capital, but we did not consider that a disaster. Why? Because it was very clear that there are ways to resist.
Bashar al-Assad
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I'm not familiar particularly with Hillary Clinton's neighborhood, but I wish people were a little bit more curious about what we call privilege and about why it's there. Black people in this country have no choice but to be curious. We have to know. I wish folks would do a little bit more investigation.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.
Pablo Picasso
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It would not be practical for her to hate herself. Luckily, God sends a substitute, a husband.
Saul Bellow
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Max Minghella is a very close friend of mine, and I talk to him regularly.
Oscar Isaac
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The more you've lived, the more you've experienced, you emotionally know a lot more, especially if you haven't had a regular, straightforward kind of life.
Lesley Manville
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The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.
Edward Fitzgerald
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In writing the book I wanted to make it very clear that I feel prostitution should be decriminalized. But some people might have breezed by those aspects that others took the time to notice. In All I Could Bare, I hope I relate in a conversational way how stripping is a lot like other types of work.
Craig Seymour
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God already knows the naked truth about us, of course. Why not acknowledge it?
Philip Yancey
