George MacDonald Quotes
Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
Quotes to Explore
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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My vision of the border with Mexico is that a truck from the United States going into Mexico and a truck coming from Mexico into the United States will pass each other at the border going 60 miles an hour. Yes, we should have open borders.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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What we want is to establish the rules of a market economy - not to plan its outcome.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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There is no fact-checking on tertiary celebrities. You can say whatever you'd like, and it will just rise up again.
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We need to keep trying to rescue the Constitution from the President.
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What I sometimes mistake for ecstasy is simply the absence of grief.
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We should not underestimate the harm it would bring should it be published.
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Like all twenty-one-year-old poets, I thought I would be dead by thirty, and Sylvia Plath had not set a helpful example. For a while there, you were made to feel that, if a poet and female, you could not really be serious about it unless you'd made a least one suicide attempt. So I felt I was running out of time.
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Man finds it hard to get what he wants, because he does not want the best; God finds it hard to give, because He would give the best, and man will not take it.
