Saint Augustine Quotes
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.Saint Augustine
Quotes to Explore
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I'm like John Q. Public. I represent what every guy wants and needs.
Adam Carolla -
Nothing truly convincing - which would possess thoroughness, vigor, and skill - has been written against the ancients as yet; especially not against their poetry.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
There's nothing wrong with a thick eyebrow; Frida Kahlo had them.
Paloma Faith -
Each of us becomes a new person as we re-describe the past.
Ian Hacking -
To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.
E. F. Benson -
You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.
Rafael Nadal
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I had trouble with my temper all the way through the minor leagues.
Cal Ripken, Jr. -
The worst is when I know I'm going to have to cry in a scene.
Octavia Spencer -
Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
Dag Hammarskjold -
All I wanted to do was be a working actor.
Teddy Sears -
Public humiliation comes to us all, and never so surely as when we're just a little bit pleased with ourselves and feel, just for once, that everything is going our way.
Kate Reardon -
I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
Lana Parrilla
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Experiencing sadness and anger can make you feel more creative, and by being creative, you can get beyond your pain or negativity.
Yoko Ono -
It must be a balance in everything we do, not too much of everything, keep it simple, not complicated.
Abdullah Ahmad Badawi -
If you don't know what to do with many of the papers piled on your desk, stick a dozen colleagues initials on them and pass them along. When in doubt, route.
Malcolm Forbes -
I mean, when you're a pioneer and you are at the forefront of an offensive, you're going to be the most optimistic person.
Carlos Ghosn -
I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.
Carine Roitfeld -
I am only 33, I've got a lot to do. This is the first half of my career. I'm looking forward to the future and I'm proud about the past.
Ice Cube
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I never thought of having cancer as something that was unfair. I just braced myself and tried to get through it.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
There comes a time in the affairs of man when he must take the bull by the tail and face the situation.
W. C. Fields -
What Hollywood designs today, you will be wearing tomorrow.
Elsa Schiaparelli -
The mortgage crisis is a clear instance of consumers who needed protection. There was predatory lending to people who didn't know what they were doing.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
I, and others like me - trap stars - we always considered ourselves Robin Hoods: we go out and get the money. Just think, if you was in the village and you a hunter, you take pride in going out to hunt the prey and bring it back for the village to eat. In our situation, we took pride in getting money so that the hood could eat.
Young Jeezy -
Miracles are not contrary to nature, but only contrary to what we know about nature.
Saint Augustine