Eugene Ionesco Quotes
Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
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For any couple, once you delve into the idea of non-monogamy, you're entering pretty frightening territory.
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You know, I don't really understand a suburban environment. I want to be out in the woods, I want to be where it's wild, I want to wake up and hear birds, I want to walk outside and see a gaggle of turkeys bouncing across my lawn - I want to be someplace like that - or I want to be right in the middle of an urban environment.
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What does that represent? There was never any question in plastic art, in poetry, in music, of representing anything. It is a matter of making something beautiful, moving, or dramatic - this is by no means the same thing.
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
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Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.
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The best leaders don't set timid and selfish goals but instead set bold targets that may be harder to achieve.
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Not until we take God seriously will we ever take sin seriously.
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Look to the Bible and not your feelings as the basis of the Christian life.
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The work of the preacher resembles that of the sower. Like the sower, the preacher must sow good seed, the Word of God.
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A man who takes himself too seriously will find that no one else takes him seriously.
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No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.
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It is only when the whole heart is gripped with the passion of prayer that the life-giving fire descends, for none but the earnest man gets access to the ear of God.
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I'm already the most fortunate girl in the world, so I have zero expectations for what the future will bring.
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He has got the slows, Mr. Blair.
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The greatest lessons I have every learned were at my mother's knees... All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother.
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Lana del Rey is not bad at all. She looks very much like a modern-time singer. In her photos she is beautiful. Is she a construct with all her implants? She's not alone with implants.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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The world concerns me only in so far as I have a certain debt and duty to it, because I have lived in it for thirty years and owe to it to leave behind some souvenir in the shape of drawings and paintings – not done to please any particular movement, but within which a genuine human sentiment is expressed.
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It is only the inexperienced and thoughtless who find pleasure in killing fish for the mere sake of killing them. No sportsman does this.
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This path, this road that is one perfect straight line even if it goes around the world through heat and fog and rain and snow and it's my life I keep thinking. It's my life.
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Oh righteous doom, that they who make Pleasure their only end, Ordering the whole life for its sake, Miss that whereto they tend. While they who bid stern duty lead, Content to follow, they, Of duty only taking heed, Find pleasure by the way.
