Brother Lawrence Quotes

It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.

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• I always believed in my ability, but I think in any sport you need that little bit of luck.

  

  Gareth Bale
  • Think
  • Always
  • Luck

• Somebody gave me this drum machine and somebody else asked me to program something for a project. I really liked programming and I was really interested in using the drum machine.

  

  Ikue Mori
  • Interested
  • Project
  • Machine

• Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.

  

  J. D. Hayworth
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.

  

  Jack Antonoff Fun.
  • People
  • Life
  • Up

• I wasn't being bullied at school at this point. I had a group of friends, and I was isolated because I wasn't communicating with my parents. I wasn't telling them what I was going through.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • School
  • Friends
  • Parents

• I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Rock
  • Jesus
  • Roll

• According to the situation, your role changes in one-day cricket, especially in a phase like the Powerplay. If I bowl four spells, four times I will be playing a different role. If I come in the first Powerplay, and say the opposition are 70 for no loss after 10 overs, I will be looking to take a wicket.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Different
  • Changes
  • Looking

• There's no excuse to be bored. Sad, yes. Angry, yes. Depressed, yes. Crazy, yes. But there's no excuse for boredom, ever.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Crazy
  • Sad
  • Angry

• Things can be funny only when we are in fun. When we're 'dead earnest,' humor is the only thing that is dead.

  

  Flip Wilson
  • Fun
  • Funny
  • Humor

• Win or lose, I always like to get back to my friends and family. They keep me grounded. When I'm home with my friends, I'm always the same Gabriel. I'm no better or worse in their eyes because of my results. It's good to be with your true friends. It always reminds me of where I'm from and who I am.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • Good
  • Family
  • Home

• We were shooting 'Hot Fuzz' in my hometown of Wells, Somerset, and I remember looking at the dailies and going, 'Wait, there's a Starbucks in the shot. I don't remember that being there!' We had to digitally remove it; the same thing happened with a McDonald's in another scene. I had this sensation of, 'What's going on here? Where am I?'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Remember
  • Looking
  • Wait

• We have done a lot of work on cost reduction, getting ourselves lean, reducing our breakeven, reducing our fixed cost and increasing exports. All of these factors help because our export basket is not just automotive but also includes industrial products, railways and others.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Work
  • Done
  • Help

• Professor Obama has at least talked to us like we're adults.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Like
  • U.S.
  • Professor

• Sometimes my colleagues joke and call me Hannah.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • Joke
  • Call
  • Colleagues

• Give me a highly successful unionized industry.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Me
  • Successful
  • Industry

• A lot of times I make people better by getting stupid, distracting, bureaucratic stuff off their desk. That's an incredibly easy way to make a senior person more productive.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Senior

• I really like cable T.V.

  

  Sally Field
  • Like
  • Really
  • Cable

• I said from the very beginning, I don't want a big house, I don't want big grounds, I don't want the trouble with the maintenance and all of that.

  

  Nancy Reagan
  • House
  • Want
  • Beginning

• At the end of the day it's going to hurt your feelings if someone says something mean about you, but I've learned to take a step back and ask myself if it's really going to affect me, if this person who I'm never going to know or meet doesn't like me - and it doesn't.

  

  Lauren Conrad
  • Hurt

• . . . gastronomical perfection can be reached in these combinations: one person dining alone, usually upon a couch or a hill side; two people, of no matter what sex or age, dining in a good restaurant; six people . . . dining in a good home.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • People
  • Good
  • Home

• Many people want to scale back their working hours as they near the end of their careers, but not necessarily to give up work altogether.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • People
  • Up
  • Work

• 'Come on, then, Giac,' said Suzy. 'Last one to the top is a rotten sorceror.' She started off at a run, but paused after a few steps when Giac didn't immediately follow. He was looking puzzled. 'Come on!' 'But I already am a rotten sorceror,' he said.

  

  Garth Nix
  • She

• It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.

  

  Brother Lawrence
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