Samuel Rutherford (Rev Prof Samuel Rutherford) Quotes
Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
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Our parents all experimented with raising us in a fairly loose, unorthodox way. A huge emphasis was placed on creativity, and our artistic efforts were never dismissed as childish. There was a sense that we - kids and grown-ups - all had the potential to make something of value. Our drawings were not simply destined for the refrigerator.
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Pity is the deadliest feeling that can be offered to a woman.
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I just find that there's something about looking back on interviews, whether for purposes of remembering what I said about something or if it's for posterity when I'm 75.
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I don't know anyone on Wall Street who goes to work every day thinking of anything but how to increase their bonus.
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No money on earth can buy the love and affection that has been given to me by a grateful nation.
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When I first started, I just wanted to work. I wouldn't necessarily do anything, but I'd pretty much almost do anything at the very beginning.
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I have heard of novels started in the middle, at the end, written in patches to be joined together later, but I have never felt the slightest desire to do this.
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L'accent est l'âme du discours.
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'The Handmaid's Tale' takes place in the near future, a dystopian future, and is based on the book by Margaret Atwood. It takes place in what was formerly part of the United States at a period of time when society has been taken over by a totalitarian theocracy. It's about the women who live in subjugation.
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I am always cautious.
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I'm a filmmaker who decided to go to culinary school. All I picked up was the fact if I didn't understand what was going on with every single ingredient, I could be qualifying for, like, the lunch food job at my daughter's school.
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I had to leave school at 14 because my father got injured in the mines and I had to support my family. I was an undertaker's assistant, then a plasterer, before doing my military service in the RAF. All the while, I was doing amateur dramatics and dreaming of getting a scholarship to the Bristol Old Vic Theatre School.
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Spain is an important historical ally of the United States, and if confirmed, I will add to our more than 200 years of diplomatic history to further our shared interests.
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There comes a night when all too late The mind shall long to prompt the achieving hand, The eager thought behind closed portals stand, And the last wishes to the mute lips press Buried ere death in silent helplessness.
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Too often, our concern for specific individuals today means neglecting crises that will harm countless people in the future.
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All human suffering concerns each human being.
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The soul should be examined in the light of other souls.
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It's not as if you can act bigger to fit the surroundings or the budget more. Whatever, it just doesn't work that way.
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I will not take the low road to the highest office in this land. I want the presidency in the best way, not the worst way.
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We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us.
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A good trader has to have three things: a chronic inability to accept things at face value, to feel continuously unsettled, and to have humility.
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Humility is a strange flower; it grows best in winter weather, and under storms of affliction.
