John Tillotson Quotes
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.John Tillotson
Quotes to Explore
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The economy is not immutable; it's not about natural laws. It's about rules, and we make the rules.
Gavin Newsom -
Mr. Trump, like too much of the church, offers little more than an excuse to project complex problems onto simple villains. Yet the white working class needs neither more finger-pointing nor more fiery sermons.
J. D. Vance -
Everyone has something that they desperately need that makes them feel good, that they don't want anything to get in the way of. Whether it's a man's golf game, whether it's a woman's cooking. I have a friend who has to clean. She's addicted to cleaning.
Tasha Smith -
All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
Edmund Wilson -
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
Wayne McGregor -
I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
Orlando Bloom
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Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
Zaha Hadid -
One is that you have to take time, lots of time, to let an idea grow from within. The second is that when you sign on to something, there will be issues of trust, deep trust, the way the members of a string quartet have to trust one another.
Yo-Yo Ma -
I had no ambition to go to America and be in a TV show. It's not like I've rejected something or decided that I've found something better. Your life just takes you off in strange and different directions.
Damian Lewis -
Stay calm and aggressive.
Gabrielle Reece -
As a kid, I always felt connected to Africa; it was something I was very proud of.
Henry Saint Clair Fredericks -
The ultimate mystery is one's own self.
Sammy Davis, Jr.
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When people say they take hits and flops in their stride, I personally feel that they are just lying. Of course, I'm upset when my movies flop. I take it very personally.
Mahesh Babu -
You see, nature will do exactly what it must, and if we are a hindrance to its development, to even its destructive powers to reform itself and we are in a way, we will go.
Ralph Steadman -
Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
Calvin Johnson -
I grew up here and my friends are here. There's nothing wrong with here.
S. E. Hinton -
When you go away, you see where you come from in a different light. I see Scotland, and the rest of Britain, as much more exotic than I used to.
Irvine Welsh -
Old Deuteronomy's lived a long time; He's a Cat who has lived many lives in succession. He was famous in proverb and famous in rhyme A long while before Queen Victoria's accession.
T. S. Eliot
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We're (millennials) looking for a truer Christianity, a more authentic Christianity.
Rachel Grace Held -
The higher nature in man always seeks for something which transcends itself and yet is its deepest truth; which claims all its sacrifice, yet makes this sacrifice its own recompense. This is man's dharma, man's religion, and man's self is the vessel.
Rabindranath Tagore -
Truth is always consistent with itself, and needs nothing to help it out. It is always near at hand, and sits upon our lips, and is ready to drop out before we are aware; whereas a lie is troublesome, and sets a man's invention upon the rack; and one trick needs a great many more to make it good.
John Tillotson