George Muller Quotes
The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.
Quotes to Explore
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The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
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Born with blue spectacles, you would think the world was blue and never be conscious of the existence of the distorting glass.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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The Koran was revealed at a time of great change in the Arab world, the seventh-century shift from a matriarchal nomadic culture to an urban patriarchal system.
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I try and find fun activities like mountain biking, hiking, or water sports for a workout rather than pushing weight in the gym.
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Piecemeal social engineering resembles physical engineering in regarding the ends as beyond the province of technology.
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There is no one looking out for us. We are all alone.
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If you're going to make a sequel to 'Sicario', you have to - you know, you've got to go beat a brand new path.
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We never left a set until we'd trashed it.
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Reading is a huge part of life.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I'm probably borderline OCD. I insist on having all objects at right angles to each other. So a fork has to be at a right angle to the knife on the table. The salt and pepper pots have to be placed close together. Only recently have I started to notice it's a weird way to behave.
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If there is one thing that makes me unique, it's that I riff a lot.
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Ultravox were the blueprint for what I wanted to do, but I stumbled across them by accident.
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I'm not crazy. I play a lot of crazy characters, but I'm an actor.
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I'm just going to go with it for as long as it lasts.
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Effective teacher support in my mind is the same thing as effective management. Our teachers need strong management, just like anyone in any profession.
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People are just afraid of things too much. Afraid of things that don't necessarily merit fear.
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I've tried every context imaginable, but the trio is the most demanding. It's very difficult to get an orchestral sound out the trio, but we do because I think orchestrally. The trio allows me a lot of space. I can play solo piano, duets with the bassist, drums and piano. Playing at optimum level is the challenge. What's necessary for me is establishing a meaningful statement musically; and my experiences dictate certain musical utterances; and my training and inherent sense of judgment all feed into this. I already know what is happening before I reach the bandstand ninety per cent of the time. The value lies in my skill to interpret a song. It may go better than I planned, in some instances, but it's not going to go any worse
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People say 'I don't want to die alone!' But you know what, honestly? I don't want to die with a bunch of people looking at me.
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I'm not nearly smart enough or imaginative enough to tackle the novel form. Never happen.
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The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.
