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 grew up in a musical atmosphere at home.
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I wasn't really writing with anything commercial in mind I just wanted to create some new music.
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I don't have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude. You just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone.
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By forces seemingly antagonistic and destructive Nature accomplishes her beneficent designs - now a flood of fire, now a flood of ice, now a flood of water; and again in the fullness of time an outburst of organic life.
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If things look right on the surface the underside is rarely questioned. However, things may be great in reality, but if one perceives them to be amiss, it is difficult to change that perception.
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Faith is the response to something which is calling us from the timeless part of our reality.
