George Bancroft Quotes
Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
George Bancroft
Quotes to Explore
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Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.
Kate Smith
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I am so saddened by the loss of our dear friend, Bonnie Franklin. She was just full of light and love. Bonnie will be very much missed by all the people she touched with her love.
Mackenzie Phillips
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I work full-time in a used bookstore. I get up. I drink a cup of coffee. I think, The last thing I want to do is write. Then I go to the computer and write.
Kate DiCamillo
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And so I missed those best years and I find it difficult for me, in groups, to be comfortable.
Eddie Albert
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he said if enough people-a stadium full, maybe-were to concentrate on one thing, such as setting a tree afire in the woods, that the tree would ignite of its own accord. I toyed with the idea of asking everyone below to concentrate on setting Tom Robinson free, but
Harper Lee
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When I write, I solemnly visit myself.
Fernando Pessoa
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If you yourself do not cut the lines that tie you to the dock, God will have to use a storm to sever them and to send you out to sea.
You have to get out past the harbor into the great dephts of God, and begin to know things for yourself....beg in to have spiritual discernment.
Beware of paying attention or going back to what you once were, when God wants you to be something that you have never been.
Oswald Chambers
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What the world asks now are state reforms and social reforms,-in other words, the reformation of our neighbours. What the Gospel asks, and has always asked, is the reformation of ourselves ... Mr. G. K. Chesterton spoke but the truth when he said that Christianity has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult, and not tried.
Agnes Repplier
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When I was a child, the FA Cup was one of the crown jewels of the sporting year, along with the Grand National, Wimbledon and The Open. But with every announcement it seems to lose another piece of its identity. First it was sponsors added to the name, followed by the semi-finals at Wembley.
Gary Neville
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Look, people are allowed their own opinions and they don't always coincide with yours. As an artist you just have to keep plugging on.
Paul McCartney
The Beatles
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Truth is not exciting enough to those who depend on the characters and lives of their neighbors for all their amusement.
George Bancroft
