Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes
The exalted moment of love is always full of promise: it is not closed in on itself, but open; we see its natural fruitfulness revealed in the child, even if its spiritual fruitfulness remains hidden.
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I always had the feeling that Bleachers is my soul.
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I am confident that, as elected officials, we can work together with religious, business and civic leaders, as well as the LGBT community, to develop policies that treat all people with dignity and respect.
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Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
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I enjoy building more than managing.
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A filmmaker can never be distant from his roots.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
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I have glaucoma, so use eye drops both morning and night.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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I will say that the food in both Japan and Italy was immaculate. I don't remember having bad food in either country.
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Some days you feel like this is really going well. You can tell. Other days, you're just drawing like a farmer and you don't know why.
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There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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You don't make houses cheaper by making them more expensive to build.
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Hold everybody accountable? Ridiculous!
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I was never a Boy Scout, but oh, I wanted to be one when I was a kid about ten or eleven years old. But there wasn't anyplace where I could ever join the Boy Scouts.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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An enthusiastic desire of visiting the Old World haunted me from early childhood. I cherished a presentiment, amounting almost to belief, that I should one day behold the scenes, among which my fancy had so long wandered.
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Give a man a beer, waste an hour. Teach a man to brew, and waste a lifetime!
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It was a good practice session, but then we started tailing-off, just as most players do during exhibition games and we started shooting more instead of executing.
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Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming.
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I treasure the three years that we were together (coaching).
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The exalted moment of love is always full of promise: it is not closed in on itself, but open; we see its natural fruitfulness revealed in the child, even if its spiritual fruitfulness remains hidden.
