Russell Banks Quotes
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A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.
Mahatma Gandhi -
I don't write with a scheme or a plan. I write word to word, so whatever that first sentence is, having said that, one more or less had to say what comes next and next and next. Guilty of no cogitation or forethought.
Padgett Powell -
The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.
Wang Jianlin -
It is the Holy Spirit who inspired the Bible. It is the Holy Spirit who illumines the Bible.
R. C. Sproul -
Whenever I read the psalms, I feel like I am eavesdropping on a saint having a personal conversation with God.
R. C. Sproul -
Working with [Robert] De Niro taught me a lot about being an actor's director.
Angelina Jolie
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I was the true future. I understood Communism better than they did.
Elia Kazan -
I think all decision making is very instinctive, in the end.
Nell Hudson -
At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.
M. John Harrison -
Who saves his country violates no law.
Napoleon Bonaparte -
Opening her eyes again, and seeing her husband's face across the table, she leaned forward to give it a pat on the cheek, and sat down to supper, declaring it to be the best face in the world.
Charles Dickens -
Every blade of grass, every insect, ant, and golden bee, all so amazingly know their path, though they have not intelligence, they bear witness to the mystery of God and continually accomplish it themselves.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
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You may live a long while with some people and be on friendly terms with them and never speak openly with them from your soul.
Ivan Turgenev -
I'm at the atheist end of the agnostic spectrum.
Sara Paretsky -
But a faithful believer will in all circumstances mediate on the mercy and fatherly goodness of God.
John Calvin -
When I was in high school, and even to a degree while I was in university, I wasn't on the Internet. So it's not as embedded in my soul, that kind of way of being.
Sheila Heti -
Forgiveness is a gift of high value. Yet its cost is nothing.
Betty Smith -
Repression is the only lasting philosophy. The dark deference of fear and slavery, my friend, will keep the dogs obedient to the whip, as long as this roof shuts out the sky.
Charles Dickens