R. A. Torrey Quotes
It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.
Quotes to Explore
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Captain Cook discovered Australia looking for the Terra Incognita. Christopher Columbus thought he was finding India but discovered America. History is full of events that happened because of an imaginary tale.
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Time whizzes by when you have children. They make you aware of the passing of time, but also help keep you young.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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I've never really had a TV career. I've been a soldier and a climber.
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I admit I do have some drawbacks and limitations as a candidate. Although I am a professional comedian, some of my critics maintain that this is not enough. I cannot deny that I stand before you untested and inexperienced - I only spent two years in television, never as a romantic lead or a song and dance man.
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Every time you make a film, you create a world. You make decisions about sets and costumes, and you create a universe connected to reality, but not reality itself.
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When our most important issue is the debt that we're piling on our children and grandchildren, I think it's pretty helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate who has actually managed billions of dollars and knows how to cut billions of dollars.
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You can't live someone else's expectations in life. It's a recipe for disaster.
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
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It's very little trouble for me to accommodate my fans, unless I'm actually taking a pee at the time.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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I cook everything from Italian to Cajun food. I have now mastered the roux for gumbo. I love cooking.
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I'm on Tumblr all the time.
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I like writing people from a slightly sharp angle and then throwing more light on them. I think in life we see somebody and make judgments very quickly about who they are and what they are. Or we think people are boring because they appear ordinary.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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I've always danced. I've always been around it.
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I think human nature is eternal and constant.
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The wisdom and experience of older people is a resource of inestimable worth. Recognizing and treasuring the contributions of older people is essential to the long-term flourishing of any society.
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I've taken my boys to the house I grew up in. Taken them to the site of Ebbets Field, where the Dodgers used to play. They go to all the Dodger games, and they play Little League ball. I have infused them with New York spirit.
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Experience, which plays such an important part in culinary work, is nowhere so necessary as in the preparation of sauces, for not only must the latter flatter the palate, but they must also very in savour, consistence, and viscosity, in accordance with the dishes they accompany.
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It is at once the most overwhelmingly frustrating and exasperating task and the most joyous and rewarding experience to make human beings out of children.
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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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It is of the highest importance from the standpoint of experience that we know the Holy Spirit as a person.
