Stanley Baldwin Quotes

If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.

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• I was taught from a very early age that I had to work twice as hard to get half as much. That was the world I grew up in - a very strong work ethic.

  

  Larry Wilmore
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.

  

  D. B. Weiss
  • People
  • Create
  • Go

• People say you should go out at the top but I was enjoying my football so much. Robbie Fowler's exactly the same: he's not playing for money any more, he's playing for enjoyment. Why go out at the top if it's going to make you miserable? I just wanted to play as long as I could.

  

  Ian Rush
  • People
  • Long
  • Money

• I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.

  

  A.J. Styles
  • Good
  • Church
  • Myself

• I complained to my mother about wanting to look less like myself and more like my friends. My mother then gave me a lesson in embracing my differences and loving them despite what others said.

  

  Taye Diggs
  • Friends
  • Mother
  • Myself

• I used to wonder if it was God's plan that I should be alone for so much of my life. But I found peace. I found happiness within people and the world.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The cool thing about working and meeting a lot of people through your acting is that you never know who you might work with, in the future.

  

  Tania Raymonde
  • People
  • Work
  • Future

• If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Run
  • Village

• When a young man massacres innocents, we have been trained to believe that the act was due to improper levels of chemical enzymes and misfiring synapses. As we learn more about our cells, we forget more about our souls.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Believe
  • Man
  • Learn

• Uncertainty will always be part of the taking charge process.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Always
  • Process
  • Uncertainty

• Eating by myself in my own apartment, single and alone again for the first time in many years, I should have felt, but did not feel, sad. Because I had taken the trouble to make myself a real dinner, I felt nurtured and cared for, if only by myself. Eating alone was freeing, too; I didn't have to make conversation.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Time
  • Real
  • Alone

• One naturally wonders if the problem of translation could conceivably be treated as a problem in cryptography. When I look at an article in Russian, I say: 'This is really written in English, but it has been coded in some strange symbols. I will now proceed to decode.'

  

  Warren Weaver
  • English

• (He remarked) that anyone who truly wished to develop tolerance toward other human beings should start by casting aside any and all religious affiliation. When challenged by one of the other guests, he had asked innocently whether anyone could name a single person put to death or driven from his home by an atheist over theological matters.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Home
  • Death
  • Single

• I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba and cry, 'Tis all barren!

  

  Laurence Sterne
  • Travel

• A disease and its treatment can be a series of humiliations, a chisel for humility.

  

  Laurel Lea
  • Humility

• Everyone has a different life story. Things happen rapidly for someone, and things move slowly for others.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Life
  • Different

• Because I am Olympic champion, everyone assumes I am this perfect athlete who should never lose. Every time I step in the ring, I am expected to win.

  

  Jade Jones
  • Time
  • Perfect
  • Athlete

• The Lincoln Memorial is related to the toga and the civilization that wore it.

  

  Frank Lloyd Wright
  • Memorial

• Those who cultivate letters must be supplied with the books necessary for their purpose; and until this supply is secured I shall not rest.

  

  Aldus Manutius
  • Purpose
  • Books
  • Letters

• If you connect with an artist because of what they make as a body of work, you feel like they're your friend. You feel like you're on the journey of connection with them because they see the world the same way you do. That's so powerful, and if you use that, you can genuinely change minds.

  

  Lauren Jauregui Fifth Harmony
  • World
  • Work
  • Friend

• Happy for America, happy for Europe, perhaps for the world when, on the delivery of Cornwallis's sword to the illustrious, the immortal Washington, or rather by his order, to the brave Lincoln, the sun of Liberty and Independence burst through a sable cloud, and his benign influence was, almost instantaneously, felt in our remotest corners!

  

  Deborah Sampson
  • World
  • America
  • Happy

• If I did not believe that our work was done in the faith and hope that at some day, it may be a million years hence, the Kingdom of God will spread over the whole world, I would have no hope, I could do no work, and I would give my office over this morning to anyone who would take it.

  

  Stanley Baldwin
  • World
  • Believe
  • Giving