Saint Augustine Quotes
God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
Quotes to Explore
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Nelson Mandela is physically separated from us, but his soul and spirit will never die. He belongs to the whole world because he is an icon of equality, freedom and love, the values we need all the time everywhere.
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I can't conceive of cooking in a sunny place like Florida because my motivation comes from the changing seasons. That's why I decided to live in New York.
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I find it fascinating that a lot of business books that do well are from people who've never made any money in business.
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'Hellraiser' is an amazing world that Clive Barker created, and it is such a beautifully vibrant and surreal world within which to work. It is also not an undaunting canvas. It is a canvas created by an artist.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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Do not consider it proof just because it is written in books, for a liar who will deceive with his tongue will not hesitate to do the same with his pen.
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Many times, when you do what I do or work in journalism in general, people try to not explicitly present their opinions on topics.
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I have been a Republican, and I've worked in Republican circles for so long, and I know that there are really smart, good policy ideas that are grounded in conservative ideology that could be persuasive for women, especially in an election where no one was really excited about either candidate.
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You don't need to raise taxes on rich people, because they create capitalization and investment. But you need to tax speculation - meaning capital gains.
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I feel like I'm not the greatest general manager in the history of general managers, but I do OK, and I'm learning as I go. I try to just do my best with it.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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A lot has happened over the years. And while this nation has been tested by war, and it's been tested by recession and all manner of challenges - I stand before you again tonight, after almost two terms as your president, to tell you I am more optimistic about the future of America than ever before.
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Poor is the man whose pleasures depend on the permission of another.
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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In India, therapy is not part of the culture; it has not become such a big need.
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A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.
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The whole upbringing was interesting because we grew up Orthodox Jews all the way until we were teenagers.
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All the more vile is the stupidity of those persons who open heaven to all the impious and unbelieving without the grace of Him whom Scripture commonly teaches to be the only door whereby we enter into salvation.
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Every performer can get better. It's not about staying with what God gave you and doing nothing with it for the rest of your life.
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Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
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Scouts always think they're right. They're not right all the time. They don't even know how hard it is. Most of those scouts never played baseball.
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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
