William Gurnall Quotes
Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
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I wanted to be an author for as long as I can remember.
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Emotions come first, and in the most direct sense: you first have an emotion and then have a feeling. But also first in the history of the human race, for the ability to have emotions long preceded the ability to have feelings.
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Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
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Today people who hold cash equivalents feel comfortable. They shouldn't. They have opted for a terrible long-term asset, one that pays virtually nothing and is certain to depreciate in value.
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The blessings wrestling has given me have allowed me to find some new passions, but it's really hard when you've got that first love, and nothing really replaces it.
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Dan Henderson has been a fighter for a long time, and he's been a champion in many different organizations.
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I have very long, wild hair, a suntan and wear knee high boots and ignore all the rules about what you should or shouldn't wear at whatever age.
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While teaching a course on global development at Uppsala University in Sweden, I realized our students didn't have a fact-based worldview. They talked about 'we' and 'them.' They thought there were two groups of countries: the Western world, with small families and long lives, and the Third World, with large families and short lives.
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As long as the plots keep arriving from outer space, I'll go on with my virgins.
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I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.
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I feel like I know so little, and I just hope I get to live so long. I came to puberty late; it's all been late.
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It's hard to do a reality show when there's so much crying and drama.
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If we were motivated by money, we would have sold the company a long time ago and ended up on a beach.
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It's one of the few regrets of my presidency - that the rancor and suspicion between the parties has gotten worse instead of better. There's no doubt a president with the gifts of Lincoln or Roosevelt might have better bridged the divide, and I guarantee I'll keep trying to be better so long as I hold this office.
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When I was eight years old, I wrote a paragraph-long short story about a goat on my mother's hundred-pound, black-and-white-screen laptop. The story came about largely because I liked the way the word 'goat' looked on the page, but I decided then and there that I wanted to be a writer. That desire never changed.
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I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.
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I love going to the cinema, listening to music, yoga and long walks along Holkham beach in Norfolk.
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My connections to Broward are long, and they are deep, and I'm proud of them.
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We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.
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The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.
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I'm going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.
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I like to try and be outside of the box or do things that other people aren't doing.
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Family dinners are more often than not an ordeal of nervous indigestion, preceded by hidden resentment and ennui and accompanied by psychosomatic jitters.
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Pray often rather than very long at a time. It is hard to be very long in prayer, and not slacken in our affections.
