William Law Quotes
God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
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Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.
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Playing evil is just not interesting. I don't think anyone who does evil stuff thinks they're doing evil stuff. That's the scary part.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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We are not angels, we are merely sophisticated apes. Yet we feel like angels trapped inside the bodies of beasts, craving transcendence and all the time trying to spread our wings and fly off, and it's really a very odd predicament to be in, if you think about it.
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I love surprises - champagne and strawberries, all that pampering, romantic stuff. Guys ought to know how to pamper their women properly.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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The Gorillaz cartoons seem more real to me than the actual people on TV. Because at least you know that there's some intelligence behind the cartoons, and there's a lot of work that's gone into it, so it can't all be just a lie.
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If wanted to play a sport, I played a sport. If I wanted to do things that many girls born in 1950 didn't do, I did it.
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel you believe, but yourself.
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You can't be preachy - kids are allergic to messages.
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Man is a beautiful machine that works very badly.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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If you ask me to summarise our mission, I would put it this way: We were a military regime that sought to lay the foundations for freedom and liberty in a complex society.
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Growing up, I always wanted to sing.
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I am just enjoying what cricket has given me. In sports, it's obviously really important for all of us to remain fit - and health is wealth, so health comes with the sport.
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I'm focused on being the best, making history.
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The Breton peasant is said to have a hard head. He is obstinate and resists outside pressure to alter his creed or his customs.
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I can't hold a grudge anyway.
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I feel a strong bond with Chile and Argentina.
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Lest Arab governments be tempted out of sheer routine to rush into impulsive rejection, let me suggest that tragedy is not what men suffer but what they miss.
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Read. Read. Read. Just don't read one type of book. Read different books by various authors so that you develop different styles.
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My books have helped a lot of men to lose weight.
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God seeth different abilities and frailties of men, which may move His goodness to be merciful to their different improvements in virtue.
