Walker Percy Quotes
Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
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It's strange but I suppose I'm one of those senior players now and I'll be helping the young players as much as I can.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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The victory of the working people over the exploiters and slave holders is at the same time the victorious struggle for liberation by the German people.
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I live in a Mobile Home - I've never had a house, except once; I rented a log cabin.
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Golf is not easy.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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In the world of language, or in other words in the world of art and liberal education, religion necessarily appears as mythology or as Bible.
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An idealist is one who, on noticing that roses smell better than a cabbage, concludes that it will also make better soup.
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Making music is fantastic.
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I would never go to a gym. How could I do it? So I tried to do it in my house and it doesn't work.
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Whatever requires an undue amount of thought or trouble or involves a large expenditure of effort and causes our whole life to revolve, as it were, around solicitude for the flesh must be avoided by Christians.
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What is this world? A mere curl of smoke for the wind to scatter.
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Whatever you think of Trump, I think most people would agree he is impulsive, and we certainly have an impulsive leader in North Korea in Kim Jong-un. That's an unholy combination.
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I was doing a tour of the 'Batman' live stage production, and I challenged the cast to join me to run. One time, we were running in Switzerland just before Christmas, and it was heavy snow. Another time, we were running down the Seine in Paris on Christmas Day, and we all had Santa hats on.
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You need a great idea, but then you've got to carry it through. If you get it right, you're going to be a critical success. But not everyone who works hard gets it right, or has the success they deserve: there's an element of luck.
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I think in the bullpen you can tell during your warmups, if you have a good feel for it. But anything can happen once you get into a game. Sometimes you just wind up throwing it better than ever before one day without knowing why.
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What I enjoy most is that every day I get to play a new character.
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Ideas are cheap and easy, and there are a lot of them.
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I transcend earthly bounds. I never cease to amaze myself because I haven't yet found my limits. I am quite ready to accept the limits of what I can do, but every time I feel that way - boom! - God touches me and I do something that's even more stupendous than whatever I've done up to then.
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I like to see things. I see a lot more art than I'd like to see. We have to be polite and see the art shows of people we know. We see a lot of art.
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I will become a firefly and even in the day my glow will be seen in spite of the sun. Let others be as butterflies who preen their wings and yet depend upon the charity of a flower for life. I will be as the firefly and my light will brighten the world.
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Trust in the Lord with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge Him, and He shall direct thy paths.
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Losing hope is not so bad. There's something worse: losing hope and hiding it from yourself.
