John Flavel Quotes
When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.
John Flavel
Quotes to Explore
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
Malala Yousafzai
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I've read quite a few readers' reviews of my book on Amazon, saying, 'Ah, he criticises the free market, he advocates central planning.' I don't do that for a minute! But this is our black and white, dichotomous way of thinking - which has really been harmful.
Ha-Joon Chang
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It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
Eddie Money
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
Vidal Sassoon
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Remember, China is the largest country in the world, so they have the confidence, the capital and resources to create large companies.
Hans Vestberg
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A record deal doesn't make you an artist; you make yourself an artist.
Lady Gaga
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I come from a theater background, and if you're doing a play, your audience is right there, and you're able to have that one-on-one experience. Doing more TV now, when fans come up to me on the street and talk to me on social media, that's a way to bridge that gap.
Samira Wiley
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
Maggie Stiefvater
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
Karl Malone
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Marinating chicken in miso adds lots of character to the meat with little work.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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Persons who are born too soon or born too late seldom achieve the eminence of those who are born at the right time.
Katharine Anthony
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At one point, I had 14 pairs of golf shoes.
Tea Leoni
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Mental life is indeed practical through and through. It begins in practice and it ends in practice.
Samuel Alexander
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If anybody's getting a shot, somebody's getting a shot against me because I'm the guy to beat.
Nate Diaz
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Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don't resist them - that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.
Lao Tzu
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
Caio Fonseca
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I was at a restaurant in Glasgow, and I was walking down the stairs. A woman passed me and said, 'Oh my God, what are you doing here?' I didn't know who she was, and I was like, 'Sorry?' She goes, 'Oh no, sorry, I follow you on Twitter. I just didn't expect to see you here.'
Caitriona Balfe
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I think my whole generation's mission is to kill the cliche.
Beck
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Everybody just has to be held accountable for their own actions.
Jason Mitchell
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At the beginning of each year, we have conceptual meetings. How are we going to challenge ourselves this year? So we suggested a transsexual or transgender. And to be honest, I am shocked they let us do it.
Jai Rodriguez
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One can give or withhold in a manner far more effective, sophisticated, useful, which is quite invisible to people who think that giving or withholding is done by external assessment. If you seek some mark of favour or 'promotion', know that you are not ready for it. Progress comes through capacity to learn, and is irresistible. Nobody can stand between you and knowledge if you are fit for it.
Idries Shah
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But I come here today, Berlin, to say complacency is not the character of great nations.
Barack Obama
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It turns out that justices are also God’s children; and being of this world, their makeup consists of actual flesh and blood. They are no more noble or virtuous than the rest of us, and in some cases less so, as they suffer from the usual human imperfections and frailties. And the Court’s history proves it.
Mark Levin
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When God gives you comforts, it is your great evil not to observe His hand in them.
John Flavel
