Evelyn Underhill Quotes
Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
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I don't feel I'm qualified to be a coach outside the high school level. I think I would need to do more education to really be a good coach.
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What makes me happy is the appreciation of people around me.
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I was a very physical child... I was a tree-climber; I was a tomboy.
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I like structure, cool, hip songs, and fun, hooky music.
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It is fantastic to be found in a foreign country.
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I see no conflict whatsoever between Christianity and good business practices. People say you can't mix business with religion. I say there's no other way.
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How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
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One thing is certain: our families are important. Don't get so stressed out and so preoccupied that we neglect one of the greatest things that God has given us, and that's our families.
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I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
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Jimmy Carter was - he still - he remains to this day America's most ex of ex-presidents. You just can't believe that we elected this doofus. He was a bright enough guy and sort of well-meaning. But he was about as prepared to be president of the United States as your goofy old uncle, you know, the one that memorises baseball statistics.
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To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else - means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting.
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If you can draw something from my life that helps, more power to you.
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Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.
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But I'm very careful with opinions because I never know what the truth is. When I read what the press says about me, I don't really believe what it says about other people.
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I was a bed wetter till very late. My mom used to hang my sheets out the window to dry, and I'd have to run home from school in order to beat the other kids to my house so they wouldn't see them.
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Writing is an incredibly lonely job.
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No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires.
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As soon as I walk down that sticky six-mile patterned carpet that welcomes you at Heathrow, I buy the Sunday papers and read the fashion supplements cover to cover. Even though hardly a single word in them seems directed at any male who ever lived, I find them compulsive reading.
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The Lord's Prayer is the most perfect piece of poetry. I always feel at peace and moved when I recite it.
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We should remember that the Pashtuns are the largest ethnic group in Afghanistan. Of course, many of them did support the Taliban. But you cannot equate all Pashtuns with the Taliban.
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At school, I always wanted to belong to a gang, and no one would have me. So I'd have make my own gang, but with everybody else's leftovers.
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On some campuses, change is effected through nonviolent or even violent means.
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Spiritual reading is a regular, essential part of the life of prayer, and particularly is it the support of adoring prayer.
