Willa Cather Quotes
The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
Quotes to Explore
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I am not saying we are categorizing Ellen White in the biblical context of a false prophet.
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I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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I'm an enormous Tim Burton fan.
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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To be forced to defend oneself is an inherently undesirable position to be in. The focus shifts from ideas to the person conveying them.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Conflict drives fiction; no one wants to read a four-hundred-page novel in which everything rolls along smoothly.
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Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.
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You think, 'You hired me because I'm a creative artist with a vision. Don't try and knock it out of me.'
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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I have a dark sense of humor.
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Human history in essence is the history of ideas.
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In violent streets and broken homes, the cry of anguished souls is not for more laws but for more conscience and character.
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I've been dancing since I was seven, but I never really developed a regimen until I was on Broadway and responsible for a professional performance every night.
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'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
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I've never personally been anorexic.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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In Fleet Street, in Fleet Street, the People are so fleet, They barely touch the cobble-stones with their nimble feet!
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I remember being with a girlfriend who asked me to look over some chess openings with her. I instantly fell asleep. I found that I could always take a nap in any situation by just looking at some opening variation - my eyes would shut right away.
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If you don't want to have gay weddings in Mormon churches, that's fine. That's absolutely up to the members of the faith or the leadership of the faith. I would never suggest that the Mormon Church has to consecrate gay unions. But homosexuality runs at a fairly constant rate through all populations. There are many gay Mormons.
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If you can imagine it, you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.
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Moms can be fresh, fly and young, and that's the kind of mom I want to be.
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The miracles of the church seem to me to rest not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.
