William Barclay Quotes
So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
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A long life in journalism convinced me many presidents ago that there should be a large air space between a journalist and the head of a state.
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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It seems to me that an unjust law is no law at all.
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I'm sort of contrary and stubborn sometimes. When everybody says, 'You have to read this book! You have to read this book!' I'm like 'Oh, I'll get around to it.'
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She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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I have a roof over my head. I had a breakfast, and a lot of people in the world can't say that. I'm not going to complain about being interviewed.
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If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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In the five months I wrote the final draft of 'The Association of Small Bombs,' I never fell out of the book. The world was real to me: plausible and powerful.
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How are we to live with the desert, in the desert, within the desert?
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My father also encouraged my love of nature. He urged me to become a Cub Scout, and later a Boy Scout, and I found I really liked being outdoors.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I'm also pretty resilient and fearless, and when I want something I go for it.
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I guess I'm a bit of a romantic.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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I have an obligation to use what I know to try to bring real, usable medical science to every doctor and bedside and patient.
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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
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At least for me, any time I've been in hotbeds of creativity, I got excited about something that wasn't coming from me.
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Back home in South Carolina, you have a lot of little soul food restaurants you can run to and get some quick, decent food.
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One emphasis of my research has been on the question of how people spend their time. Time is the ultimate finite resource, or course, so the question of how people spend it would seem to be important.
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A young man is afraid of his demon and puts his hand over the demon's mouth sometimes and speaks for him. And the things the young man says are very rarely poetry.
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Indigenous people believe that Man belongs to the World; civilized people believe that the World belongs to Man.
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So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.
