Eric Hoffer Quotes
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.Eric Hoffer
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I think the Hispanic community, the values that resonate in our community, are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family, patriotism.
Ted Cruz -
I lost relatives to AIDS. A couple of my closest cousins, favorite cousins. I lost friends to AIDS, high school friends who never even made it to their 21st birthdays in the '80s. When it's that close to you, you can't - you know, you can't really deny it, and you can't run from it.
Queen Latifah -
If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. -
I think poetry's always a kind of faith. It is the kind that I have.
Natasha Trethewey -
I lost the ball in the moon.
Hank Sauer -
I just lost my best friend, I have been crying hysterical for a full day.
Bam Margera
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My faith informs everything I think and do. It's part of my value system.
Sam Brownback -
I think the worst thing that could have happened to me would have been having a hit at 20. I don't know what that would have done to me. But instead, I had to scrape a living for years. And my first show, which opened in 1969, lost over £45,000, an absolute fortune then.
Cameron Mackintosh -
Many Muslims put their Islamic faith ahead of their national identity and forbid preachers from other religions from coming into their countries to convert their young. Apostasy is treason to Allah. Heresy has no rights.
Pat Buchanan -
A tree is known by its fruit; a man by his deeds. A good deed is never lost; he who sows courtesy reaps friendship, and he who plants kindness gathers love.
Saint Basil -
One of the most unsettling things about 'Monologue' is its long silences, in which the man sits alone, staring into the middle distance, without grip of his narrative, lost to the past.
Samantha Harvey -
Seldom ever was any knowledge given to keep, but to impart; the grace of this rich jewel is lost in concealment.
Wendell Phillips
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I'm truly glad I've managed to get the public interested in questions about basic research.
Ada Yonath -
I wouldn't trade anything for family time. To me, it is more important than everything else, and I have a very deep-rooted belief in it, which is influenced by my Jewish faith. That's a very great source of who I am and what I believe in.
Felicity Kendal -
People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.
H. Jackson Brown, Jr. -
Faith is not belief. Belief is passive. Faith is active.
Edith Hamilton -
Going from a child actor to an adult actor is not an easy thing, and I was sort of lost in a no man's land for a while, trying to figure out who I was as a person, and going from a young actor to an adult actor.
C. Thomas Howell -
I was already writing 'The Lost Symbol' when I started to realize 'The Da Vinci Code' would be big. The thing that happened to me and must happen to any writer who's had success is that I temporarily became very self-aware.
Dan Brown
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Like most sensible people, you probably lost interest in modern art about the time that Julian Schnabel was painting broken pieces of the crockery that his wife had thrown at him for painting broken pieces of crockery instead of painting the bathroom and hall.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Fear of death makes us devoid both of valour and religion. For want of valour is want of religious faith.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I think right now the way society's going, I think role models are important, and kids need direction. If I didn't have that direction growing up, who knows what I could be doing, because I've been lost many times in my life, and I've had to have someone guide me back on the right path.
Jeremy Lin -
In Hollywood, normally things don't work out, and dreams are crushed.
Jessica St. Clair -
It is a lot harder to keep people well than it is to just get them over a sickness. Take care of yourself.
D. C. Jarvis -
Faith in a holy cause is to a considerable extent a substitute for lost faith in ourselves.
Eric Hoffer