Dale Ahlquist Quotes

It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

Dale Ahlquist

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• Our plans never turn out as tasty as reality.

  

  Ram Dass
  • Reality
  • Never
  • Plans

• There were many films made for both cinema and television, and in general I don't connect them very much with our books. I have one favorite: 'The Man on the Roof' by director Bo Widerberg, which was based on 'The Abominable Man.'

  

  Maj Sjowall
  • Man
  • Television
  • Cinema

• I really wanted to break the mold of what modern touring is right now.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Break
  • Now
  • Modern

• The Dumnonii, whose city or fortress was at Exeter, were an important people. They occupied the whole of the peninsula from the River Parret to Land's End. East of the Tamar was Dyfnaint, the Deep Vales; west of it Corneu, the horn of Britain.

  

  Sabine Baring-Gould
  • People
  • Important
  • City

• Everything that's created comes out of silence. Your thoughts emerge from the nothingness of silence. Your words come out of this void. Your very essence emerged from emptiness. All creativity requires some stillness.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • Words
  • Thoughts
  • Silence

• Don't believe what I say. Believe what I do.

  

  Carlos Ghosn
  • Believe
  • Say

• The drums tell me everything. Everything else registers a millisecond later.

  

  Adam Clayton U2
  • Me
  • Tell
  • Drums

• Sometimes I just get over-excited. I see the pitch and I think, 'I have to get this wicket.' When I am just looking to bowl, I am calm and composed, and most of the time I get it right. The ball lands where I want it to.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Right
  • Wicket

• All my favorite books and movies are franchises like 'Harry Potter' and 'Lord of the Rings,' so that was always the dream, that maybe I'll get to write a series of my own.

  

  Victoria Aveyard
  • Dream
  • Always
  • Movies

• If my gravy train stops at SAG, honey, it's been a great ride.

  

  Patricia Clarkson
  • Great
  • Train
  • Ride

• I have been using polka dots since I was a very young child. Only after that, it seems, have they been used throughout the rest of the art world.

  

  Yayoi Kusama
  • World
  • Art
  • Rest

• I don't think of myself as being disabled, or able-bodied.

  

  Natalie du Toit
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Being

• I think what's wrong with the fashion world, particularly men's fashion, is the lack of creativity behind it.

  

  Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty
  • World
  • Men
  • Fashion

• At one point, I had lost my confidence as an actor, and working again was tough. I started stammering due to lack of confidence. It took time, but things became better.

  

  Fatima Sana Shaikh
  • Time
  • Lost
  • Confidence

• All my life, I heard, 'Stop daydreaming,' 'Get over yourself,' 'You'll never get there,' 'Aim lower,' 'You'll hurt yourself,' from teachers, family, and friends.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Life
  • Family
  • Friends

• I really do love Diana Ross; I grew up listening to her records. I grew up in a little town in Mexico, so while we got the music, we never got the experience of watching her.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Up
  • Music
  • Love

• I became a horror fan during the early 1960s, back when Hammer was putting out their groundbreaking 'Dracula' series with Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing, and grew up watching 'Dark Shadows.'

  

  Nancy A. Collins
  • Up
  • Dark
  • Early

• I hope to land roles where my presence is carried on throughout the film. I'm looking forward to taking on a role with a complicated backstory and yet someone who refuses to lose sight of hope. I know that it will happen someday.

  

  Nadine Velazquez
  • Hope
  • Lose
  • Looking Forward

• Here then is the real problem of our negligence. We fail in our duty to study God's Word not so much because it is difficult to understand, not so much because it is dull and boring, but because it is work. Our problem is not a lack of intelligence or a lack of passion. Our problem is that we are lazy.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Work
  • God
  • Real

• We should not feel so sorely grieved if no man who had not attained the full stature of a Webster, Clay, Van Buren, or Gerrit Smith could claim the right of the elective franchise. But to have drunkards, idiots, horse-racing, rum-selling rowdies, ignorant foreigners, and silly boys fully recognized, while we ourselves are thrust out from all the rights that belong to citizens, it is too grossly insulting to the dignity of woman to be longer quietly submitted to.

  

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  • Citizens
  • Dignity
  • Recognized

• Last year set a new kind of standard, ... I think it does influence, especially when you consider how few people turn out to vote.

  

  Alan Young
  • People
  • Vote
  • Standardized

• That's all a man can hope for during his lifetime - to set an example - and when he is dead, to be an inspiration for history.

  

  William McKinley
  • Men
  • History
  • Inspiration

• It is easier to get rid of one's religion than to get rid of one's sins.

  

  Dale Ahlquist