Alexander MacLaren Quotes

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

Alexander MacLaren

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• It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Important
  • You
  • Party

• My grandmother was energetic and fearless - a talented poet and songwriter. She was also interested in chemistry and history and medicine, taking care of the people in her hacienda in Mexico, delivering babies. She could have become anything, but this was the 1930s, and she was forced into an arranged marriage.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • People
  • History
  • Marriage

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.

  

  Beck
  • Home
  • Year
  • Keep Going

• It is our hope that the AP program can serve as an anchor for increasing rigor in our schools. Rigor can be maintained while increasing student participation.

  

  Gaston Caperton
  • Hope
  • Student
  • Anchor

• I adored my father.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Father
  • Adored

• Having different people come together and be on a team and win a world championship is literally, I think, the definition of being American.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.

  

  Barbara Tuchman
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Military

• For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.

  

  Fabrice Muamba
  • Me
  • Luck
  • Word

• Nothing has changed since I began.My eye has permitted no change.I am going to keep things like this.

  

  Ted Hughes

• I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • People
  • Real

• Among human beings, the subjection of women is much more complete at a certain level of civilization than it is among savages. And the subjection is always reinforced by morality.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Women

• Life is a four-letter word.

  

  Lenny Bruce
  • Life

• This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.

  

  Mary Hunter Austin
  • Time
  • Desert

• Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.

  

  Kevin J. Anderson
  • Space
  • Air

• You have some people that's weak, and you have some people that's strong. I consider myself a very strong person.

  

  Blac Chyna
  • People
  • Strong

• In my 20s, I could just power through stuff and be fine, but now, in your 40s? It's kind of like Kobe Bryant. He plays basketball a little bit differently than he did when he first started out.

  

  Daniel Wu
  • Power
  • Basketball

• By the very nature of his art, which depends on invention and innovation, a story teller must depart from the beaten track and, having done so, occasionally startle and disagree with some of his associates. Healthy disagreement we must have.

  

  Preston Sturges
  • Done
  • Art
  • Nature

• Fascism was an explosion against intolerable conditions, against remediable wrongs which the old world failed to remedy. It was a movement to secure national renaissance by people who felt themselves threatened with decline into decadence and death and were determined to live, and live greatly.

  

  Oswald Mosley
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• The loadstar of a saint is God Himself, not estimated usefulness. It is the work that God does through us that count, not what we do for him.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Work
  • God
  • Loadstar

• Michael [Jackson] had paintings of himself at Neverland depicting himself as a knight and surrounded by cherubs and angels. People might think he's an egomaniac, but he's not. It's because the world turned against him.

  

  David LaChapelle
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Great
  • Trying

• You are not your buttocks.

  

  Kaz Cooke
  • Buttocks

• The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

  

  Alexander MacLaren
  • Prayer
  • Thankfulness
  • Trustfulness