George Carey Quotes

When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

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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
  • War
  • Reality
  • End

• I didn't equate a POW camp with a concentration camp.

  

  Larry Hovis
  • Concentration
  • Equate
  • Pow

• You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

  

  Vikram Seth
  • Mother
  • Inspiration
  • Suggestions

• What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • People
  • Happy
  • Appreciation

• If you needed to borrow a cup of sugar, you knocked on your neighbour's door.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • You
  • Door
  • Sugar

• I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • People
  • Like
  • Hip Hop

• 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
  • Life
  • Work
  • Important

• Look, in 1800 the sainted Thomas Jefferson arranged to hire a notorious slanderer named James Callender, who worked as a writer at a Republican newspaper in Richmond, Va. Read some of what he wrote about John Adams. This was a personal slander.

  

  Karl Rove
  • Look
  • Republican
  • Newspaper

• You know, one of these things that happened in the '60s and '70s was this confluence of, sort of, a counter-culture with computer culture.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Culture
  • You
  • Know

• I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.

  

  Rachael Leigh Cook
  • Family
  • Home
  • Cats

• My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Light
  • Quiet
  • Telephone

• No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.

  

  Katharine Elizabeth Fullerton Gerould
  • Fashion
  • Woman
  • Fat

• It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Life
  • Think
  • Star

• He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• The Clayr Saw a sword and so I was. Remember the Wallmakers. Remember Me.

  

  Garth Nix
  • Remember

• The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Universe

• The PC police are out in force at all times. ... We've reached the point where people are afraid to actually talk about what they want to say.

  

  Ben Carson
  • People
  • Police

• From Plato: the man who has an elevated mind and takes a view of all time and of all substance, dost thou suppose it possible for him to think that human life is anything great? It is not possible, he said. Such a man then will think that death also is no evil.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the evening lights.

  

  Tacitus
  • Death
  • Fire

• Laziness in prayer is like handing the devil a key to your house.

  

  Mark Hart Crowded House
  • House
  • Prayer
  • Devil

• It certainly is a situation of great delicacy but, at the same time, one in which it would seem I hold fifty per cent of the bargaining power in order that the Duchess and I can plan for the future in the most constructive and convenient way.

  

  Edward VIII
  • Time
  • Great
  • Power

• Rather than worship Confucius and Kuan Kung, one should worship Darwin and Ibsen.

  

  Lu Xun

• 'Where there is mind, there is always solution,' Keneenk taught. All problems contained the elements of their answer.

  

  David Brin
  • Mind

• When the fire of prayer goes out, the barrenness of busyness takes over.

  

  George Carey
  • Prayer
  • Fire