Saint Augustine Quotes
"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.
Saint Augustine
Quotes to Explore
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Shareholders need to have a real interest in the companies they own. Too many are simply too busy - they are asleep at the wheel.
Nathan Kirsh
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The first function of a book review should be, I believe, to give some idea of the contents and character of the book.
Walter Kaufmann
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Though we may know Him by a thousand names, He is one and the same to us all.
Mahatma Gandhi
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It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.
Hans-Georg Gadamer
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I have favorite authors from a lifetime of reading, so there are some I'll automatically read every time they have a new novel. Included in them: Robert Goddard, Jeffery Deaver, Sophie Kinsella, Katherine Neville, Greg Isle, Laurie King, Lee Child, Lisa Tucker, Susan Howatch, Paul Auster. Barry Eisler, David Hewson, Tracy Chevalier.
M. J. Rose
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No one could ad lib like Peter. You would think that it was all scripted, he was so poetic, but it wasn't.
Barbara Walters
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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
Orhan Pamuk
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Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
Sally Hawkins
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I like to have fun, but I don't think of myself as being funny. But I'm a big jokester, so I make fun of myself a lot!
Taylor Lautner
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In 1255, Louis IX of France presented an elephant to Henry III of England to add to the menagerie of exotic animals he kept in the Tower of London.
Karen Maitland
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I don't think our music has much to do with math rock.
Ian Williams
Battles
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The prayers of cowards fortune spurns.
Ovid
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You know what's funny is that I have this ongoing relationship with the city of Washington D.C. I went to George Washington University, and my nickname was K-Dub - based on G-Dub - and I'm now on the board of trustees at George Washington University.
Kerry Washington
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After you've graduated, you're supposed to be an adult and go out into the world, and you're still not formed. It's an interesting... horrible, horrible time.
Kim Gordon
Sonic Youth
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We need to focus on green jobs: solar, wind, geothermal, biomass. There's so many opportunities. But other countries like China are getting ahead of the curve.
Alexi Giannoulias
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Many of my students assume that government protection is the only thing ensuring decent wages for most American workers. But basic economics shows that competition between employers for workers can be very effective at preventing businesses from misbehaving.
Christina Romer
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Don't send me no letter, cause I can't read.
Fats Domino
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"Otherwise grace is no more grace," since it is bestowed on us, not because we have done good works, but that we may be able to do them.
Saint Augustine
