Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes
There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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The real debate is, when does life begin? When life begins, it deserves protection.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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There is one system of justice, demanding that all be held accountable when laws are broken.
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The world is always terrible.
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Vilification on the grounds of race or religion is always wrong. There's no place for inciting hatred within our Australia society.
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There needs to be a place in the church or just outside - there needs to be a place where people feel free to ask questions without being put upon, where they feel free to ask difficult, challenging questions to voice their skepticism.
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Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!
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I regard sports first and foremost as entertainment, so dry documentary narration is not for me.
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The birth of the African Union should encourage us to reexamine relations between African States.
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If I sit down to write a young-adult novel, then I'm going to write either to the punch-pulling expectation of what I can't do, or I'm going to go the other way and think about what can I sneak in to be 'down with the kids' - which would be excruciating.
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Training is my drug. I'm going to be the best I can in and out of the water - train right, eat right - and that is the way it should be.
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It's true that immigrant novels have to do with people going from one country to another, but there isn't a single novel that doesn't travel from one place to another, emotionally or locally.
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As long as a member state is a member state, there are no negotiations bilaterally on any trade agreement with third parties.
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It's believing you can push through the exhaustion just to be able to sing after you do a cartwheel or a split.
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I never show anything to anybody until I've finished it.
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I've never been able to understand where great artists come from.
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Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
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A bell's not a bell 'til you ring it, A song's not a song 'til you sing it, Love in your heart wasn't put there to stay, Love isn't love 'til you give it away!
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Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is that whatsoever a man does against his Conscience, is Sinne ; and it dependeth on the presumption of making himself judge of Good and Evill. For a man's Conscience and his Judgement are the same thing, and as the Judgement, so also the Conscience may be erroneous.
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If you like a man and he likes you, you should get married as fast as you can. Otherwise, you both are going to change your minds. There's plenty of time for that after marriage.
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Plot is what happens in your story. Every story needs structure, just as every body needs a skeleton. It is how you 'flesh out and clothe' your structure that makes each story unique.
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Woman, thou shouldst ever be clothed in rags and in mourning, appearing only as a penitent, drowned in tears, and expiating thus the sin of having caused the fall of the human race. Woman thou art the gate of the devil. It is thou who hast corrupted those whom Satan dare not attack face to face.
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There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
