Alexander MacLaren Quotes
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
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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.
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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.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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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.
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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.
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I adored my father.
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
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Nothing has changed since I began.My eye has permitted no change.I am going to keep things like this.
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I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same.
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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.
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This is the sense of the desert hills, that there is room enough and time enough.
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Of course you don't make any noise in space, because there's no air.
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You have some people that's weak, and you have some people that's strong. I consider myself a very strong person.
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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.
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Since I was a kid, I've always loved hanging out with females.
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TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.
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I think there are plenty of soulmates out there. That's what I choose to believe.
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Paradox is the technique for seizing the conflicting aspects of any problem. Paradox coalesces or telescopes various facets of a complex process in a single instant. (p. 106)
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Wouldn't you rather your kid be a drug dealer than a drug addict?
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If you are using an adverb, you have got the verb wrong.
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Prayer did not come easily to me for I always feel that prayer is a silent things, and opening of the heart. To ask for earthly benefits, to reel out a list of requirements and expect them to be supplied is not prayer. It is putting God in the same category as an intelligent grocer.
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It's not going to happen through technology or our intellectual abilities but only through prayer. When we pray, God works. We believe God blesses churches that bless missions.
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My life is full, and I love it. Acting is the frosting on the cake for me.
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The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
