Jerry Bridges Quotes
God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.Jerry Bridges
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It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.
Imelda Marcos -
Thoughtless risks are destructive, of course, but perhaps even more wasteful is thoughtless caution which prompts inaction and promotes failure to seize opportunity.
Gary Ryan Blair -
No nation has embraced Total Quality Management, e-commerce and e-government with greater enthusiasm than Dubai. Such innovations have given Dubai a competitive edge and an accelerated growth rate that few could match.
Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair -
The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.
Edmund Burke -
But probably my favorite music, believe it or not, is sad music.
Walton Goggins -
What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. Boyle
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Art is the child of Nature; yes, her darling child, in whom we trace the features of the mother's face, her aspect and her attitude.
Beck -
There is no kind way to rip the skin off animals' backs. Anyone who wears any fur shares the blame for the torture and gruesome deaths of millions of animals each year.
Natalie Imbruglia -
Videos are more like photography. It's not as much about trying to tell a story as it is creating images.
Tatyana Ali -
'We are not a debating club,' Franklin said. 'Our goal is to get at the truth, where that is possible.'
Jack McDevitt -
We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves - outside of Germany.
Alfred Rosenberg -
He had seen Hyle shoot, and he had seen only one man he thought was as good ... just one. He'd seen Con Vallian down in the Bald Knob country that time, and Con was quick. He was almighty quick at a time when a man was either quick or he was dead.
Louis L'Amour
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He would not anticipate those counsels which are rather bestowed by circumstances on men, than by men on circumstances.
Livy -
The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.
Jay Parini -
Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.
Jay Parini -
Boys are capital fellows in their own way, among their mates; but they are unwholesome companions for grown people.
Charles Lamb -
I wanted to be a movie star. But movie stars are not what they used to be.
Lindsay Lohan -
I never listen to music when I'm writing.
Ben Fountain
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Maybe God has let everybody who ever lived be reborn - so he or she can see how it ends. Even Pitecanthropus erectus and Australopithecus and Sinanthropus pekensis and the Neanderthalers are back on Earth - to see how it ends. They're all on Times Square - making change for peepshows. Or recruiting Marines.
Kurt Vonnegut -
I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.
Bruce Boxleitner -
People talk about this Julia Roberts almost like it's a cup of Pepsi. People think Julia Roberts is something they created. The fact is, 26 years ago, there was this scrunched-up little pink baby named Julia Roberts. I am a girl, like anybody else.
Julia Roberts -
Can you think of anything more permanently elating than to know that you are on the right road at last?
Vernon Howard -
Life is like music; it must be composed by ear, feeling, and instinct, not by rule.
Samuel Butler -
God makes provision for our holiness, but He gives us the responsibility of using those provisions.
Jerry Bridges