George Eliot Quotes
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.George Eliot
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Do not follow vain desires; for verily he who prospers is preserved from lust, greed and anger.
Abu Bakr -
The world we live in is vastly different from the world we think we live in.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I think 'Rockstar' is more dear to me than any of my other films.
Imtiaz Ali -
Ultimately, the reason we have a Constitution, the reason we have separation of powers, the reason we have the Fourteenth Amendment is to provide the courts with the opportunity to override the will of the people when the will of the people discriminates against a segment of our society.
Ted Olson -
Anger begets more anger, and forgiveness and love lead to more forgiveness and love.
Mahavira -
I want to be creative in as many different environments as possible, whether it's doing film scores, writing for TV ads or video games - all sorts of stuff, as long as it requires writing music.
Flume
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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 -
Gay people - generally speaking - have a responsibility to our own community and to future generations of gay people to come out, if and when we feel that we can.
Rachel Maddow -
Your idol is shattered in the dust to prove that God's dust is greater than your idol.
Rabindranath Tagore -
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 -
I like guys who drive trucks.
Inga Cadranel -
The impulse patterns which carried creatures star to star were almost instantaneous, no matter what the distance.He stood and thought about it and it still was hard, he admitted to himself, for a person to believe.
Clifford D. Simak
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I was brought up to believe I could achieve anything. My mother instilled in me the belief that there was always something great coming. For example, even though I'm afraid of flying, I always think the plane can't crash because there are so many better things still to come.
Joe Bastianich -
I love my refrigerator.
Al Roker -
I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.
Charles Kennedy -
Even though I don't have a lot of spare time, what I do have I'm very protective of, and so I make sure to have a normal life and to remember that, while it's important to keep in mind these conflicts are ongoing, it's also important to enjoy simple pleasures, too.
Clarissa Ward -
I sure can't do television. The screen is only 24 inches. How are they ever gonna get someone like me in that little box?
John Matuszak -
In a world that is defined by what separates us, sharing a meal with someone from a different country, showing what we have in common with the people, it's very powerful and important.
Andrew Zimmern
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The women's movement had already paved the way, I think, for my coming.
Sally Ride -
There is no wonder more supernatural and divine in the life of a believer than the mystery and ministry of prayer...the hand of the child touching the arm of the Father and moving the wheel of the universe.
Albert Benjamin Simpson -
True prayer is asking God what He wants.
William Barclay -
On the birther movement: Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.
Elizabeth Kolbert -
Governmental aid is a drawback rather than an assistance, as, although it may facilitate in the routine of artistic production, it is an impediment to the development of true artistic genius.
John Philip Sousa -
The most powerful movement of feeling with a liturgy is the prayer which seeks for nothing special, but is a yearning to escape from the limitations of our own weakness and an invocation of all Good to enter and abide with us.
George Eliot