Ambrose of Optina Quotes
If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.Ambrose of Optina
Quotes to Explore
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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
Beanie Sigel -
There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
Kate Beckinsale -
There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
Omar Sharif -
I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
Lady Starlight -
Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
Lane Garrison -
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
D. H. Lawrence
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp -
And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
Ian McDiarmid -
Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
Nancy Grace -
You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
Talib Kweli Black Star -
Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
Nadia Comaneci -
It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
W. Somerset Maugham
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
Pat Robertson -
Amateurs hope, professionals work.
Garson Kanin -
I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
Vijay Sethupathi -
To change what you get, you must change who you are.
Vernon Howard -
It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
Mallory Ortberg -
I dropped out of NYU, moved out of my parent's house, got my own place, and survived on my own. I made music and worked my way from the bottom up.
Lady Gaga
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The more I find out about the dynamic and how it works, the more I realize how lucky I am to have ever got anything. Like... there was no need to put me in 'Cinderella Man' - there was no need. Why? Just get an American actor - it would've been cheaper, probably.
Paddy Considine -
With a play, there's more of a definable arc because of the nature of theater: You know, there's no editing, so there's something more natural about the arc a character follows in a play. I think theater is more an actor's medium, whereas film is more a director's medium, because that's who controls the final feel of the film.
Dan Futterman -
No one around me was obsessed with Fred Astaire except for me. It just snowballed, really. I started with tap lessons. When I didn't have tap shoes, I taped nickels on the bottom of my penny loafers.
David Hallberg -
It was one of those perfect autumn days so common in stories and so rare in the real world.
Patrick Rothfuss -
Sincere practice, makes the impossible possible.
Dada Vaswani -
If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.
Ambrose of Optina