Thomas à Kempis Quotes

The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

Thomas à Kempis

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• Man
• Peace
• Humble
• Obedient

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• I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.

  

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• Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.

  

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• He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.

  

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• The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

  

  Edith Wharton
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• Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
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• I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.

  

  Tao Lin
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• Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.

  

  Ian Frazier
  • Writing
  • Funny
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• It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.

  

  Magnus Carlsen
  • Me
  • Easy
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• The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Feel
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• I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • People
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• I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.

  

  Vin Scully
  • God
  • Want
  • Smile

• Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.

  

  Oscar Peterson
  • People
  • Trying
  • Play

• I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Work
  • God
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• The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.

  

  Venus Williams
  • You
  • Always
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• I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.

  

  Fat Joe
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• It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.

  

  Nanci Griffith
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  • Done
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• In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.

  

  Hamza Yusuf
  • World
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  • Others

• I used to wish that I could write songs, like the others-and I've tried, but I just can't. I can get the words all right, but whenever I think of a tune the others always say it sounds like such-a-thing, and when they point it out, I see what they mean.

  

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• I believe in music because it has the power of change.

  

  Abigail Washburn
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• At the height of Iraq's clandestine nuclear weapons program, which nearly succeeded in building a bomb in 1991, Tuwaitha incorporated research reactors, uranium mining and enrichment facilities, chemical engineering plants and an explosives fabrication center to build the device that detonates a nuclear core.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Building
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  • Engineering

• I had a whole bunch of bad country songs, so I put 'em all on an album.

  

  Leon Russell
  • Country
  • Bad

• A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.

  

  William E. Gladstone
  • Rational
  • Skepticism
  • Irrational

• The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.

  

  Thomas à Kempis
  • God
  • Man
  • Peace