Saint Augustine Quotes
We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
Quotes to Explore
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Europe believes that providing clear labelling for genetically modified food is a consumer right, but such practice is absolutely opposed by the vast majority of states in the U.S.
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It seems there's always another rumor about my life; some people are simply talked about more than others.
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I am not in the business of suppressing books.
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You know something, if you're not acting, you're not an actor - you've gotta work. No way around it.
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Many societal problems concern science, such as the energy crisis, genetic alterations of foods.
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I am very outspoken, obviously, and I should say that I can't judge anyone for doing anything.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Anyone can train to be a gladiator. What marks you out is having the mindset of a champion.
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I'd always wanted to do a Marvel project, and I'd always imagined getting to play one of the superheroes because it's such a hard thing to get. It's the parts that only go to a few people. The flip side of that is the antagonists are pretty awesome.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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I'm so sick of gay this, gay that. I could care less. It ain't affecting my life at all.
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I studied writing at university, and I actually majored in screenwriting. Then I went to work as a bookseller and then as a sales rep and publicist and then various editorial jobs until I ended up with HarperCollins in Australia.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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There once was a demographic survey done to determine if money was connected to happiness and Ireland was the only place where this did not turn out to be true.
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In theatre, there's no time for a proper meal.
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Pilates is great.
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When I went to lobby Nelson Mandela while the post-apartheid constitution was being drafted, I asked him to endorse making it illegal to discriminate on grounds of sexuality. I'd been warned that he might giggle if I mentioned homosexuality.
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But the war on terror as I have repeatedly said in the past, and the Afghan people believe in it, in truth, is that the war on terror is not in the Afghan villages or homes. Its in the sanctuaries, it is in the training grounds, its in the motivation factors and the money that comes to it.
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Science and Religion both fail to give a reasonable reply. Science does not pretend to be able to give the solution, saying that the examination of things as they are is enough of a task; religion offers an explanation both illogical and unmeaning and acceptable but to the bigot, as it requires us to consider the whole of Nature as a mystery and to seek for the meaning and purpose of life with all its sorrow in the pleasure of a God who cannot be found out. The educated and enquiring mind knows that dogmatic religion can only give an answer invented by man while it pretends to be from God.
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Wherever public worship has been established and regularly aintained, idolatry has vanished from the face of the earth. There is not now a temple to a heathen god where the word of God is read.
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Unbelief puts our circumstance between us and God, but faith puts God between us and our circumstances.
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The metaphor is~ an origin, the origin of an image which acts directly, immediately.
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We count on God's mercy for our past mistakes, on God's love for our present needs, on God's sovereignty for our future.
