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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I don't like possessions.
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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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I got beat up by the comic-book kids when I was younger! They were cooler than me. Talk about levels of geekdom, I was a couple rungs below the kids who read comic books. Yeah. Not so cool, man.
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There is not a single desirable attribute which, lacking in a plant, may not be bred into it. Choose what improvement you wish in a flower, a fruit, or a tree, and by crossing, selection, cultivation, and persistence you can fix this desirable trait irrevocably.
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If you think of life and death on a continuum, finding the point where it tips is complicated. It cuts across all political lines and gets to the root of our humanity. It requires faith informed by years of intimacy that you're doing what's right for your loved one.
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We are tomorrow's past.
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A little careful pushing, and they’ll bury the hatchet all right-in each other.
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There is no persuasiveness more effectual than the transparency of a single heart, of a sincere life.
