Thomas Carlyle Quotes
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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Date syrup is a natural sweetener that has wonderful richness and treacly depth; I drizzle it over semolina porridge.
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Our present will become the past of other men and women. We depend on them to remember it with the complexity with which it was suffered. As others, once, depended on us.
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Marriage, in life, is like a duel in the midst of a battle.
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I wrestled futilely, then relaxed as a vine wrapped three times around my throat and squeezed. Right," I choked out, and shut my eyes. "I'll wait here, then.
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People say that you're going the wrong way when it's simply a way of your own.
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Is this really the church of Christ, or are we just calling it the church because of our traditions and history?
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More and more the distinction between prayer and the rest of life seemed to be vanishing for Betsie.
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We become pitiable and ridiculous when we imbibe an unreasoned mysticism in our life without any natural or substantial basis. People like us, who are proud to be revolutionary in every sense, should always be prepared to bear all the difficulties, anxieties, pain and suffering which we invite upon ourselves by the struggles initiated by us and for which we call ourselves revolutionary.
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Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.
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Thinking of nothing. Trying to think of nothing. Thinking of everything.
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Geddy once joked, 'You're the only guy I know who rehearses to rehearse!
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I much prefer to write everything by myself. It's kind of difficult. It's like getting undressed in a really bright light.
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Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.
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Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
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Lots of people can have girlfriends. But I can throw around guitars onstage! That'll be my epitaph: 'He never had a girlfriend, but you should've seen him smash a Les Paul!'
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I believe in miracles.
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Middle children tend to be more gregarious and more dependent on the approval of peers than that of adults. For one thing they have the example of the older sibling- who has the credibility of generational sameness- to guide them in their decisions and to teach them the rules of the family road. An older sister who was grounded for a month for coming home late from a date, for instance, is a lesson not lost on her younger sister or brother.
