John Searles Quotes
What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.
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Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.
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For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.
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In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.
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Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.
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15. As in the night when the sun is not present, one sees the light in the moon, the man who is not present in the heart, sees merely the mind.
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One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
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The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.
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Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.
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Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.
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I ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was - it was terrible.
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I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.
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On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.
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The Land of Israel needs to build and be built, period.
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A play is not a tweet. It can't be compressed and embedded, and it definitely can't be delivered apologetically.
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At present, financial crises occur, chiefly because the paper currency is redeemable in gold only.
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Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.
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You don't master your fear. You're not able to say, 'I'm not going to be scared.' But what you can do is say, 'OK, I'm very very scared, but I have to do this and this and this.'
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I work as diligently on my canvases as the laborers do in their fields.
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This is what an artist is, she thought. This is the temperament you need to spend a whole day tinkering with a sentence, making sure that both the meaning and the music are right; to spend three or seven or ten years working on a book.
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God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.
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What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?
