Wilfred Grenfell Quotes

The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now.

Wilfred Grenfell

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• Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.

  

  Hannah Storm
  • Different
  • Body
  • Personality

• There is no diplomacy like candor.

  

  E. V. Lucas
  • Like
  • Diplomacy
  • Candor

• I have no idea if some societies, anthropologically speaking, aren't really suited for democracy. I don't think that's true.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • True
  • Think
  • Democracy

• In prayer it is better to have a heart without words than words without a heart.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Heart
  • Words
  • Prayer

• A lizard is a perfect pet for a model. They only need feeding once a fortnight. And I'm always travelling, so it's perfect. If I had a dog, it would drop dead of starvation.

  

  Abbey Lee Kershaw
  • Perfect
  • Model
  • Dog

• Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg didn't finish college. Too much emphasis is placed on formal education - I told my children not to worry about their grades but to enjoy learning.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Children
  • Education
  • College

• We think the Puritans always dressed in black and white, which they didn't. They loved very bright colors. And there were other differences in perceptions that gave one a very different view of them.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Different
  • Black
  • Colors

• Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Food
  • Resolution
  • Heartbreak

• Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Why
  • Want
  • Powerful

• Each week I try to have three lunches with my children, one working lunch, and one lunch with mates.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • Children
  • Week
  • Lunch

• I think the accessories look very modern and very exciting. These big earrings, these big hoops. I think the girls are sort of falling in love with... collars, neck collars.

  

  Ralph Lauren
  • Love
  • Look
  • Falling In Love

• All of us must recognise that education and innovation will be the currency of the 21st Century.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Education
  • Innovation

• Truth does not hurt, rather, it is our resistance to its message that causes pain.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Truth
  • Pain
  • Hurt

• I that have loved thee thus before thou fadest,My faith shall wax, when thou art in thy waning.The world shall find this miracle in me,That fire can burn when all the matter's spent.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • World
  • Art
  • Faith

• Crops failed; wealth took a flight; house, treasure, land, Slipped from my hold-thus plenty comes and goes.One friend I had, but he too loosed his hand (Or was it I?) the year I met with Rose.

  

  Edmund Clarence Stedman
  • House
  • Friend
  • Hand

• He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.

  

  Ted Hughes
  • Up
  • High
  • Strong

• In the case of all things which have a certain constitution, whatever harm may happen to any of them, that which is affected becomes consequently worse; but in like case, a man becomes both better... and more worthy of praise, by making the right use of these accidents.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • May

• „…there will be no peace in the tormented world, only a programmed and systematic series of wars and calamities-until the plotters have gained their objective: an exhausted world willing to submit to a planned Marxist economy and total and meek enslavement- in the name of peace.'

  

  Taylor Caldwell
  • World
  • Peace

• My story is endless. I put in a teletype roll, you know, you know what they are, you have them in newspapers, and run it through there and fix the margins and just go, go - just go, go, go.

  

  Jack Kerouac
  • Know
  • Story
  • Fix

• Even if they knew the truth of their own feelings, most mothers would be socially and emotionally incapable of revealing it.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Truth
  • Feelings
  • Mother`s

• For me, art has neither past nor future. All I have ever made was for the present.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Art
  • Future
  • Past

• I love New York, but am happy to be away from it. I really like small towns, with welcoming barbecue restaurants.

  

  David Burnett
  • Happy
  • Really
  • Restaurants

• The knowledge of this marvelous period has made faith far easier from an intellectual standpoint, and has enabled us to be more patient in waiting to see the truth, not as now.

  

  Wilfred Grenfell
  • Truth
  • Faith
  • Knowledge