Francis Asbury Quotes
Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.
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The military executes policy decisions.
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If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
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My parents separated when I was young, and as a result, my father had to learn how to braid our hair on the nights my sisters and I would stay with him. We would arrive to school the next morning with these incredibly endearing lopsided braids he had fashioned. This may have expedited the process of my learning how to braid my own hair.
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I love doing costumes. The costume is an actor's first line, so it's gotta be right!
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I am an actor who doesn't believe in carrying an 'image' in the industry. I don't want to get trapped in an image.
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There's a certain freedom in writing when you don't know if you'll ever have an audience.
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It should not be the government running the economy.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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Often I am asked if there is any such thing as a female serial killer.
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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.
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A man contains all that is needed to make up a tree; likewise, a tree contains all that is needed to make up a man. Thus, finally, all things meet in all things, but we need a Prometheus to distill it.
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Awkwardness gives me great comfort.
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The world's become a little too mean.
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Our current obsession with creativity is the result of our continued striving for immortality in an era when most people no longer believe in an afterlife.
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'Aha? You have been very clever, madame.' 'No, I haven’t really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.' 'Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important.'
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I try to write catchy hooks but, at the same time, things that mean something that will provoke thought.
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I am looking forward to getting out of the bubble. I am glad that I'm leaving this place at a relatively young age, at 55. So I have the opportunity for a second maybe even a third act in a way that I think would be tougher if I were, you know, the age of some presidents when they left.
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O tenderly the haughty day Fills his blue urn with fire; One morn is in the mighty heaven, And one in our desire.
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I'd come here planning to leave as soon as I could. It was a pit stop, not a destination. I had my whole life mapped out." "So what happened?" "I guess that map didn't turn out to be mine after all.
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The error of Socrates must be attributed to the false notion of unity from which he starts. Unity there should be, both of the family and of the state, but in some respects only. For there is a point at which a state may attain such a degree of unity as to be no longer a state, or at which, without actually ceasing to exist, it will become an inferior state, like harmony passing into unison, or rhythm which has been reduced to a single foot. The state, as I was saying, is a plurality which should be united and made into a community by education.
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For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.
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Preach as if you had seen heaven and its celestial inhabitants, and had hovered over the bottomless pit, and beheld the tortures, and heard the groans of the damned.
