Sydney Carter (Sydney Bertram Carter) Quotes
Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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I could have ended the war in a month. I could have made North Vietnam look like a mud puddle.
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I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down, knowing there will be good things in my future!
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My favorite part of designing bridal is that I will be a part of the most important day in a woman's life. My work needs to make her feel sophisticated, glamorous, sexy, and comfortable.
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Mr. Tennyson has said that more things are wrought by prayer than this world dreams of, but he wisely refrains from saying whether they are good or bad things.
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If you hold back in hurdles, you are going to fall over.
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Bring me men to match my mountains: Bring me men to match my plains: Men with empires in their purpose and new eras in their brains.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
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At exactly which point do you start to realize, that life without knowledge is death in disguise?
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I will not concede for a moment that old privileges should not dwindle. They cannot dwindle fast enough.
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When you are really in love, you become vulnerable, and insecurities come out of nowhere.
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Good music is very close to primitive language.
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I spent almost 25 years at Qualcomm before joining Microsoft, so in a sense, I grew up at one company. During that time, I made a very big shift from the engineering side to the business side.
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For years, agency officials said that atrazine in drinking water posed almost no risk to humans or the environment.
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I'm no good at down-time. I panic slightly and then plan a project or set up a meeting about starting a project.
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Air is traditionally 'thin,' but the more we learn about our atmosphere, the more substantial it becomes. In some places it is so filled with inorganic flotsam that it is almost thick enough to plough; in others, it has become so primed with the by-products of life that it comes close to being a living tissue in its own right.
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You pray for things and accept the blessings when they come, you know? And it is about how you talk to yourself and what you say morning, noon and night about what you want to happen in your life. Some folks call that creative visualization. Other people call it prayer. But it is about that message that you send out there to yourself.
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I'm a fighter. I'm a warrior. I'll fight anybody.
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The law of levity is allowed to supersede the law of gravity.
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I probably took more than anybody could survive. … I was bangin' seven-gram rocks and finishing them because that's how I roll. I have one speed, I have one gear, GO!. … I'm different. I have a different constitution, I have a different brain, I have a different heart. I got tiger blood, man. … Dying's for fools, dying's for amateurs.
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You don't get many chances in life to make a movie, and if someone says they don't like it, I say, 'I do'. I've made records before, and if someone said it sucked, it bummed me out.
Dito Montiel -
The great genius does not let his work be determined by the concrete finite conditions that surround him, whilst it is from these that the work of the statesman takes its direction and its termination. … It is the genius in reality and not the other who is the creator of history, for it is only the genius who is outside and unconditioned by history.
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Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.
