William Nicholson Quotes
Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
Quotes to Explore
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My sister, mom and I all wear the same size, so I shop a lot at a boutique called 'my mother's closet' that is right down the hall from my bedroom. She has vintage Comme des Garcons dresses that I feel so elegant wearing.
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I don't think many people consider in their heart that they have two places that are home.
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My parents divorced when I was seven. Because divorce is messy, for good or ill, they sent me to boarding school.
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When you're told to go brief a United States senator on a covert operation, you go do it. And you trust the information isn't going to leak.
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The worst thing for an effective war on terror is the suspicion of states about the objectives.
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Acting is my first love, and that's my main career, it really is.
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When I listen to President Obama speak to and about women, he sometimes sounds too paternalistic for my taste.
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It's abhorrent to me that somebody is just evil, and you can't explain it.
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Voting for a candidate for the DC circuit is very different from confirming someone to the US Supreme Court. I have been very clear that the Senate should not confirm any nominee in a lame duck session.
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When I was a child, I was one of the kids who wore black all the time, and when the kids asked me why I wore black, I said things like, 'I'm mourning the death of modern society.' I mean, I was a riot.
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I have always been interested in design, but in the beginning I didn't set out to make jewelry specifically.
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The first thing I do when I get to any town is find a gym and a breakfast place, because I love breakfast.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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I know everyone in the Philippines is happy.
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Whenever there was a choice between music and anything else, music won hands down every time.
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I really enjoy doing sitcom television. It allows me to stay in Los Angeles and spend more time with my husband and kids.
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I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
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Our family business was operating batting cages. The pitching machine spit out the balls at lightning speed. Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax. Whitey Ford. 50 cents for 12 pitches. Of course, my mother ran the place, and I was her slave: selling candy, hosing down the street, and the most dreaded of all jobs, feeding the pitching machine with balls.
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Patience, persistence, and power to do are only acquired by work.
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We have a wonderful history behind us. ... If you are unable to demonstrate to the world that you have this record, the world will say to you, 'You are not worthy to enjoy the blessings of democracy or anything else'.
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Marty Russo was too good a golfer to be a servant of the people.
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The ideal Government of all reflective men, from Aristotle onward, is one which lets the individual alone - one which barely escapes being no government at all.
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Self-sufficiency is the enemy of salvation. If you are self-sufficient, you have no need of God. If you have no need of God, you do not seek Him. If you do not seek Him, you will not find Him.
