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

• 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

• Since I was a kid, I've always loved hanging out with females.

  

  Ben Falcone

• TV critics, who traditionally hate television and make their living writing about it, often didn't like what I did on the air.

  

  Charles Kuralt
  • Writing
  • Hate
  • Air

• O faithful conscience, delicately pure, how doth a little failing wound thee sore!

  

  Dante Alighieri
  • Conscience
  • Failing
  • Sore

• Beautiful things comfort; they bring a real clarity and ease. We have to continue to make our environments beautiful - it's sort of like a prayer. If you surround yourself with beautiful things, you have a better life - one with more oxygen.

  

  Anjelica Huston
  • Life
  • Real
  • Beautiful

• Never speak disrespectfully of Society, Algernon. Only people who can’t get into it do that.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Society
  • Speak

• Sometimes we mask ourselves to further reveal ourselves, and it's always been connected to me with being a writer: We tell lies to tell a greater truth. The story is a mask; the characters you create are masks. That appeals to me. Aside from that, too, in the carnival the masks were beautiful, and offered a vision of Haitian creativity.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Truth
  • Beautiful
  • Vision

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

  

  Alexander MacLaren
  • Prayer
  • Thankfulness
  • Trustfulness