Saint Augustine Quotes
A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
Saint Augustine
Quotes to Explore
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Our influences are who we are. It's rare that anything is an absolutely pure vision; even Daniel Johnston sounds like the Beatles. And that's the problem with the bands I'm always asked about, the ones derivative of the early Seattle sound. They don't dilute their influences enough.
Eddie Vedder
Pearl Jam
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
T. C. Boyle
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I like to see the difference between good and evil as kind of like the foul line at a baseball game. It's very thin, it's made of something very flimsy like lime, and if you cross it, it really starts to blur where fair becomes foul and foul becomes fair.
Harlan Coben
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
Taslima Nasrin
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When I was on 'The Big Gay Sketch Show' I thought, 'Well, this is going well now, but then when it's over I'll just be a barista.'
Kate McKinnon
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I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.
Ha-Joon Chang
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Writing and telling are almost the same, the way I do it.
Daniel Pinkwater
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My idea for peace in the Middle East is to go back to the 1966 line, but to build even more houses for the Palestinians, who are a poor people.
Frank Carson
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I didn't see a ton of movies growing up.
Kelly Preston
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I don't need the water to be inspired. My stories inspire me, not the location of where I'm parked. And good thing, since I've had to finish books in airports, in the RV we used to have, the lake house, while on vacation, at home, in the kitchen when my office PC was on the fritz.
Lori Foster
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One of the hard parts about building a service that you use yourself is that it's easy to forget what it was like the very first time someone signs up. Every once in a while, I'll create a brand new account and give it a try and see how hard it is to find things that I really love, see if I'm using it or thinking about it differently.
Ben Silbermann
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A man may lose the good things of this life against his will; but if he loses the eternal blessings, he does so with his own consent.
Saint Augustine