George Herbert Quotes

He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

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• I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.

  

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• What I have is P.H. positive chronic myeloid leukemia, which is an aberration in your white blood cells.

  

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• Understand that the right to choose your own path is a sacred privilege. Use it. Dwell in possibility.

  

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• I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.

  

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• Life is not about dwelling on the bad.

  

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• I enjoy passing time in my house. I'll get up, head out on the terrace, think about what to do, fool around oiling the floorboards or hanging pictures askew.

  

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• You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.

  

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• I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.

  

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• One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.

  

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• Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.

  

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• I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.

  

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• I want to go against the best fighters. That's why I'm always calling out Georges St-Pierre. I don't have anything against Georges St-Pierre. I think he's a great fighter.

  

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• Just making a movie the way 'All is Lost' had to be made was a great experience, because it was structured differently than any other film I will make for the rest of my life.

  

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• Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.

  

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• My accent is... sort of an Edinburgh sort of soft southwest Scottish accent. It could almost be English.

  

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• That's our goal every year, to win the World Series, like it is at most places. In L.A., it really is.

  

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• Wealth, in even the most improbable cases, manages to convey the aspect of intelligence.

  

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• By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell heaven. The greater the lie, the more readily it will be believed.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Believe
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• While men are gazing up to Heaven, imagining after a happiness, or fearing a Hell after they are dead, their eyes are put out, that they see not what is their birthright.

  

  Gerrard Winstanley
  • Heaven
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  • See

• Surely the colour of London was an exquisite thing. It was like a pearl that late afternoon, something very gentle and pale, with faint blue shadows. And as for its smell, she doubted, indeed, whether heaven itself could smell better, certainly not so interesting. "And anyhow," she said to herself, lifting her head a moment in appreciation, "it can't possibly smell more alive.

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Interesting
  • Heaven
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• He that cannot forgive others, breaks the bridge over which he himself must pass if he would ever reach heaven; for everyone has need to be forgiven.

  

  George Herbert
  • Heaven
  • Bridge