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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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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And having suffered for part of the war when I was a child. I was too young to really understand what was going on but one of my favorite pieces of animation now is that Goodbye Blue Sky in The Wall because that deals directly with that period in time.
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I cannot say where you are. Unreachableby prayer, even if poems are prayers. Unseeablein the air, even if souls are stars.
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It's unrealistic to think that the future of humanity can be achieved only on the basis of prayer; what we need is to take action.
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If you ever feel distressed during your day - call upon our Lady - just say this simple prayer: 'Mary, Mother of Jesus, please be a mother to me now.' I must admit - this prayer has never failed me.
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I am a passionate devotee of the Howard Hawks' screwball comedies of the 1930s and the 1940s, where I think that the relations between men and women were at their civilized height in terms of banter and exchange of wit and equality.
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The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
