William Law Quotes
Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light , which infinitely flows forth from God , as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes .
Quotes to Explore
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When people tell really good stories in songs, I really like it.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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I just want to do my job.
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I think it must be so hard to start your career with everyone going on about how gorgeous you are. To be in that bracket must be so pressurised.
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I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.
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That's what fiction writers do: create characters and do terrible things to them for the entertainment of others. If they feel guilty enough, they write happy endings.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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I go to the gym in the morning to warm up, and then I go to the mountain and train. Then I come home and go to the gym again to recover. But on travel days, you get pretty much no physical exertion.
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To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill.
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Conflict is the beginning of consciousness.
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I do not... look very feminine. Diana, Princess of Wales is feminine... I am... femi-none.
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I've worked at this film festival in Telluride called the Telluride Film Festival. Been there since 2002. I used to make popcorn. I was an usher. Cleaned toilets, everything. Grew up there as a kid.
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I don't intentionally go: 'Ooh, what is provocative,' and try to do that. I just do stuff, and people go: 'Ooh, that's provocative.'
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The parts I've got to create are a little bit different to a lot of guys my age.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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I like all kinds of music - classical, pop, rock, electronic.
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There is nothing evil save that which perverts the mind and shackles the conscience.
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In our family, as far as we are concerned, we were born and what happened before that is myth.
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I take as metaphysical poetry that in which what is ordinarily apprehensible only by thought is brought within the grasp of feeling, or that in which what is ordinarily only felt is transformed into thought without ceasing to be feeling.
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Layla, you got me on my knees. Layla, I'm begging, darling please. Layla, darling won't you ease my worried mind.
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The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
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One little lie or dishonest act leads to another until the perpetrator is caught in the web of deceit.
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Men are not in hell because God is angry with them. They are in wrath and darkness because they have done to the light , which infinitely flows forth from God , as that man does to the light who puts out his own eyes .
