Ernest Holmes Quotes
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For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
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The idea of capitalism is not just success but also the failure that allows success to happen.
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Faith is not a sense, nor sight, nor reason, but taking God at His work.
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In the West, you have always associated the Islamic faith 100 percent with Arab culture. This in itself is a fundamentalist attitude and it is mistaken.
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I am miserable when everything is in order and quiet. Seriously, it's hard for me when I can go home quietly, go to sleep, and get up in the morning without fear and tension.
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I still believe many poets begin in fear and hope: fear that the poetic past will turn out to be a monologue rather than a conversation. And hope that their voice can be heard as that past turns into a future.
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Success will be when I can have a real swimming pool instead of the fifty-dollar one I buy at Kmart every year. But I don't want to get robbed of any authenticity to try and make money.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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When you look around right now, Nashville is kind of going through another changing of guard; you're watching the Martina McBrides and the Faith Hills and all of them that have been the big stars for the last however many years, and the next generation is coming in: Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, those girls.
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The keys to patience are acceptance and faith. Accept things as they are, and look realistically at the world around you. Have faith in yourself and in the direction you have chosen.
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Fear is our deepest and strongest emotion, and the one which best lends itself to the creation of nature-defying illusions.
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My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.
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When there's change, and people fear things, they become more dogmatic in their views. They lash out: you can see it in the media, scapegoating and penal sentencing.
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I'm here now because of my faith. That's what got me singing and what has kept me singing. That is what I have: what has kept me doing right and has provided me with the chances and the attitude and the skills to do this.
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It's cool to have critical success because it's always nice for your peers to say, 'Good job.' But who cares about them?
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Soul-serving requires a heart that beats hard against the ribs. It requires a soul full of the milk of human kindness. This is the sine qua non of success.
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If A is success in life, then A = x + y + z. Work is x, play is y and z is keeping your mouth shut.
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I have enough motivation just not looking like an idiot on national television. The fear of disappointing people is certainly higher.
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
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When I was very young I was reading a lot of Latin American fiction, which later would be called "boom fiction."
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Americans tend to celebrate even the most mediocre or basic accomplishments... It's like weddings to me. Why is that a big deal?... Why do you have to have a big shindig where you're, like, 'Look, we're doing it' and everybody applauds and throws shit in your face. - SModcast 1: Fisting Flipper
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Fear brings failure; faith brings success. It's just that simple.
