Ernest Shackleton Quotes
After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
Quotes to Explore
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We hunger to understand, so we invent myths about how we imagine the world is constructed - and they're, of course, based upon what we know, which is ourselves and other animals. So we make up stories about how the world was hatched from a cosmic egg or created after the mating of cosmic deities or by some fiat of a powerful being.
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'The Hunger Games' has something for everyone.
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The gods behold all righteous actions.
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The hunger to win must not die... The appetite has to remain big.
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People do connect me with James Bond simply because I happen to like scrambled eggs and short-sleeved shirts and some of the things that James Bond does, but I certainly haven't got his guts nor his very lively appetites.
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I feel like a little beast when I'm onstage, and I feel like my fans have that little beast inside of them, too: this hunger for life.
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If you care about the slaughter of the innocent, then for God's sake, speak up.
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God’s sovereign will is not at the whim and mercy of our person and individual responses to it.
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In a sense sickness is a place, more instructive than a long trip to Europe, and it's always a place where there's no company, where nobody can follow. Sickness before death is a very appropriate thing and I think those who don't have it miss one of God's mercies.
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There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take upon ourselves what belongs to Him alone. For to execute vengeance belongs to none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed them for the purpose.
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In doing God's work, there is no substitute for praying. The men of prayer cannot be displaced with other kinds of men.
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My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
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We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.
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I loved the fact that it wasn't my responsibility to change somebody, that it was God's, that my part was just to communicate love and approval.
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Difficulties are God's errands; and when we are sent upon them, we should esteem it a proof of God's confidence.
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If men think that a ruler is religious and has a reverence for the Gods, they are less afraid of suffering injustice at his hands.
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Now - find God's dream for your life and go all out for it!
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Life must be lived as play, playing certain games, making sacrifices, singing and dancing, and then a man will be able to propitiate the gods.
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We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.
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Eternity's a terrible thought. I mean, where's it all going to end?
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This shall hence become my music.
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I feel like I have re-created myself on every album. I try to do that. It's like playing a game with yourself, trying to compete with yourself.
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After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied.
