William Booth Quotes
Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
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My dad played guitar, and he taught me enough to play some Beatles' songs. But primarily, I was a bookworm. I loved reading and still do. My whole family does. It was part of the family culture. Accomplished literacy was a value.
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I've never said I was a chef - I think I make great food. I will never open a restaurant to do, like, tasting courses.
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The justice delivery system needs structural change. It needs fresh vision and innovative solutions.
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Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.
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Money is our madness, our vast collective madness.
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There is no self-knowledge but an historical one. No one knows what he himself is who does not know his fellow men, especially the most prominent one of the community, the master's master, the genius of the age.
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It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.
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I always wanted to do things on my own terms, and unfortunately in this industry, that's not something that is easily given. You're at the mercy of other people, but then you still have that drive to continue on. That's an equation for a lot of heartbreak.
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For about a year, I just didn't know what to do. I did laboring jobs, working in the docks, construction sites.
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Cornwall bears a certain resemblance to Italy: each is like a leg or boot, but Italy stands a-tiptoe to the south, whereas Cornwall is thrust out to the west. But, whereas Italy is kicking Sicily as a football, Cornwall has but the shattered group of the Scilly Isles at its toe.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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I was never offended that people underestimated me because of my appearance or that they thought I was pretty and discouraged me from fighting because they didn't want me to risk hurting my looks.
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It's one of the greatest festivals in the world. New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Fest is the best all-around... It's an honor to be closing it.
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In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.
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I like Modest Mouse. I'm our biggest fan. And enemy. I won't waste people's time by putting out a Modest Mouse record just because. That's fair, right?
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If you think about a Thanksgiving dinner, it's really like making a large chicken.
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Never in a million years would I think I'd play in a Super Bowl.
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My publisher, who was so good as a taster and editor, when she became a writer, lo and behold, it was all this feminine tosh.
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I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.
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People are willing to do the most appalling things to another person for the sake of imposing a religious belief.
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There is another form of selection best illustrated by the automatic telephone exchange. You dial a number and the machine selects and connects just one of a million possible stations. It does not run over them all. It pays attention only to a class given by a first digit, and so on; and thus proceeds rapidly and almost unerringly to the selected station.
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Next to life we express gratitude for the gift of free agency. When thou didst create man, thou placed within him part of thine omnipotence and bade him choose for himself. Liberty and conscience thus became a sacred part of human nature. Freedom not only to think, but to speak and act is a God-given privilege.
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And I have exposed myself to art so that my work has something beyond just the usual potter.
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Can we go too fast in saving souls? If anyone still wants a reply, let him ask the lost souls in Hell.
