John Ruskin Quotes
God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.
Quotes to Explore
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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I don't know what DVD commentaries are about. I'd like to strangle the person who came up with that concept.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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Our worst comes out when we behave like robots or professionals.
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I've got to confess I'm a pragmatic optimist myself.
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Basically, particularly in Britain, it's a hegemonic thing that people who write tend to come from the leisure classes. They can afford the time and the books.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I went to small liberal schools my whole life, and I was also a bad girl in high school; I went to, like, five schools.
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Georgia Tech beat us and Mississippi Southern tied us last year, and Texas beat us after we had the game won. We only played about five games the way we were capable of playing and lost one of those.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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All souls are equal and alike and have the similar nature and qualities.
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Why doesn't anyone remember that the Palestinians already had four real opportunities to establish their state, yet each time they preferred to revert to terrorism?
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If you shut the door to all errors, truth will be shut out.
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Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
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She was very kind to us when Joe and I went through the darkest days of the leak of my name in 2003. And, of course, Joe worked in the Clinton White House.
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Genet is a man-failure: he wills the impossible in order to derive from the tragic grandeur of this defeat the assurance that there is something other than the possible.
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Music is geometry in time.
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I follow my instincts. Maybe I'd be more successful in my business and my private life if I did things like everybody else. But I just feel like I'm different from everybody else.
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I believe that architecture is a pragmatic art. To become art it must be built on a foundation of necessity.
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The real test of being in the presence of God is, that you either forget about yourself altogether or see yourself as a small, dirty object.
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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God is a kind Father. He sets us all in the places where he wishes us to be employed. He chooses work for every creature which will be delightful to them if they do it simply and humbly. He gives us always strength enough and sense enough for what he wants us to do.
