George Carey Quotes
When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
George Carey
Quotes to Explore
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Segregation was a burden for many blacks, because the end of the civil war and the amendments added to the constitution elevated expectations beyond reality in some respects.
Ed Smith
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I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.
Larry Hovis
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
Nadia Comaneci
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If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.
Gaby Hoffmann
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
T. J. Miller
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You can have anything you want, but not everything. If it was really important to spend an afternoon at my daughter's school, I had to think, how was I going to organize my life to do that? How could I become more efficient? I always tried to put my priorities on the table, personal and professional, and work around them.
Laura Lang
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Those who would administer wisely must, indeed, be wise, for one of the serious obstacles to the improvement of our race is indiscriminate charity.
Andrew Carnegie
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She was as forthright and simple as the winds that blew over Tara and the yellow river that wound around it.
Margaret Mitchell
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In every combustion there is disengagement of the matter of fire or of light. A body can burn only in pure air [oxygen]. There is no destruction or decomposition of pure air and the increase in weight of the body burnt is exactly equal to the weight of air destroyed or decomposed. The body burnt changes into an acid by addition of the substance that increases its weight. Pure air is a compound of the matter of fire or of light with a base. In combustion the burning body removes the base, which it attracts more strongly than does the matter of heat, which appears as flame, heat and light.
Antoine Lavoisier
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And sure enough, in seeking to become superhuman this foolhardy young man renders himself inhuman. The heart that he has locked away slowly shrivels and grows hair, symbolising his own descent to beasthood.
Joanne Rowling
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Yoga is a big part of my destressing. Even sitting on the floor for 10 minutes to center myself, stretch and relax can be a huge game changer.
Erin Hamlin
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When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.
George Carey
