Ada Leverson Quotes
Modesty is a valuable merit ... in people who have no other, and the appearance of it is extremely useful to those who have.
Ada Leverson
Quotes to Explore
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God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.
Victoria Osteen
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If you have a group of people come together around a vision for real discipleship, people who are committed to grow, committed to change, committed to learn, then a spiritual assessment tool can work.
Dallas Willard
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Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
Salman Rushdie
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No, I didn't quite know to what extent the football might be, but it was quite a bonus for me to try to learn new skills and to keep fit at the same time.
Parminder Nagra
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Out of nowhere, I became a fairly well-known director with a penchant for opera, which I did for 10 years. Then I realized I was taking myself out the theater channel, and so I re-focused on theater.
Jack O'Brien
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You really want a company full of missionaries, not mercenaries.
Sam Altman
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I thought this election was an adult discussion on how best to protect ourselves in the face of terrorism, but apparently it was a referendum on boys kissing. I didn't know that, nobody.. told me that. But when homophobia trumps terrorism in America, wow. This country needs to get laid.
Bill Maher
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I've always been a tomboy. I've always liked to wear red, black, and white, and mostly pants.
Janet Jackson
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Not because I'm trying to be fabulous, but I love those big crazy Jackie O shades.
Alicia Keys
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The fact is that I'm also friendly with Tom Coburn, one of the most conservative Republicans in the United States Senate, who, during his campaign, once said that it might be appropriate to apply the death penalty to those who carried out abortions.
Barack Obama
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I don't use the computer. I do sketches, very quickly, often more than 100 on the same formal research.
Zaha Hadid
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Opening to oneself fully is opening to the world.
Chogyam Trungpa
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Writing books is certainly a most unpleasant occupation. It is lonesome, unsanitary, and maddening. Many authors go crazy.
H. L. Mencken
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We want to get another one.
Stephen Curry
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She had known happiness, exquisite happiness, intense happiness, and it silvered the rough waves a little more brightly, as daylight faded, and the blue went out of the sea and it rolled in waves of pure lemon which curved and swelled and broke upon the beach and the ecstasy burst in her eyes and waves of pure delight raced over the floor of her mind and she felt, It is enough! It is enough!
Virginia Woolf
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If any be unhappy, let him remember that he is unhappy by reason of himself alone. For God hath made all men to enjoy felicity and constancy of good.
Epictetus
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Diffidence is a sort of false modesty.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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We're going to have every pump, every sandbag out there. The only question is where do we put them.
Craig Fugate
