W. G. Grace Quotes
I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.
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Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.
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There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.
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I think I'd make a pretty good president, and they have a great pension plan.
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Business chief executive officers and their boards succumb to the pressures of the financial markets and their fears of takeovers and pour out their energies to produce quarterly earnings - at the expense of building their companies for the long term.
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The more people pointed at me in scorn the more stubborn I got and when they began calling me the Bad Girl of West Seattle High, I tried to live up to it.
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Things have always sort of happened for me. Something else always comes up.
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Every little girl looks up to her mom so much - that's your first hero.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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At 8, I made a pact with God.
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We have to build a better education in this country. We need to step it up.
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Even where friendship is concerned, it takes me a long time to trust people.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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During the first 13 centuries after the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem, no one thought of setting up a creche to celebrate Christmas. The pre-eminent Christian holiday was Easter, not Christmas.
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Bruce Sterling is one terrific writer and he's relatively new, but I don't know how long he's been doing it; he probably doesn't need the publicity anymore!
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Funny is a good foil. Humor is illuminating, and it also gives you power.
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At the end of the day, I just want to see good gymnastics!
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Honestly, with me, as long as I have a park to play basketball in, I'm pretty cool.
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I love going to the movies; I love watching good movie actors. They must know something I don't.
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Britain is not in the single currency, and we're not going to be. But we all need the eurozone to have the right governance and structures to secure a successful currency for the long term.
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I've gone on streaks where I haven't shot the ball well here, but I was always making up for it in other areas, so it wasn't as big. It's just a part of the game. I got to do better with it.
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Purity of the spirit is important. A lot of people don't focus on what's going on inside, and no matter what they look like, even sometimes when people do all this wonderful work or they are blessed naturally to look good on the outside, if their spirit is ugly - I don't care how fine you are, if you're ugly on the inside, then you're uglier.
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One hundred trout are needed to support one man for a year. The trout, in turn, must consume 90,000 frogs, that must consume 27 million grasshoppers that live off of 1,000 tons of grass.
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The financial costs of family breakdown are incredibly high.
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I should like to say that good batsman are born, not made; but my long experience comes up before me, and tells me that it is not so.
