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
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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 -
You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
Jack Kemp
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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 -
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
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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 -
People's ideas and fears can make them small but they cannot make you small. People's prejudices can diminish them but they cannot diminish you. Small-minded people can think they determine your worth. But only you can determine your worth.
Carly Fiorina -
I watched TV religiously when I was a kid, but nowadays - with the Internet - there's so many people writing about TV on the Internet, that everything's sort of under a magnifying glass.
Oscar Nunez
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Il n'est pas difficile de nourrir des pensées admirables lorsque les étoiles sont présentes.
Marguerite Yourcenar -
If you want to hit a man in the chest, aim for his groin.
Bat Masterson -
The 20th century was a test bed for big ideas - fascism, communism, the atomic bomb.
P. J. O'Rourke -
I did psychology at university, but I wouldn't say that my music is too influenced by it. The way I make music is a little more to do with an emotional connection. When I compose the melodies for my tracks, it always comes from the heart.
Lodewijk Fluttert -
The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal -
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