Ambrose of Optina Quotes
“Years are not needed for true repentance, and not days, but only an instant.”
Ambrose of Optina
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You know Nashville, there's people that are ten times more talented than me, ten times better singer than me, song writer than me, but for some reason you get the ball and now - and now you run with it. And you do the best you can.
Garth Brooks
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What can a pencil do for all of us? Amazing things. It can write transcendent poetry, uplifting music, or life-changing equations; it can sketch the future, give life to untold beauty, and communicate the full-force of our love and aspirations.
Adam Braun
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Humans don't 'need' math-based cryptocurrencies when dealing with other humans. We walk slowly, talk slowly, and buy big things. Credit cards, cash, wires, checks - the world seems fine.
Naval Ravikant
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Experience has taught me that any kind of political grouping is oppressive. It's the blind mass that crushes the individual.
Gao Xingjian
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The different bodies of my work end themselves when there's no more discovery to be had.
Dan Colen
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Love is not just tolerance. It's not just distant appreciation. It's a warm sense of, 'I am enjoying the fact that you are you.'
N. T. Wright
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Writing is the most frustrating, but it's something that I've always done.
Larry Wilmore
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The '$O$' phase, it was like, 'Save Our Souls': we didn't know how we were going to get out of our situation... It was our last chance just to go all out. 'Ten$ion' was another phase, to maintain the tension we had, just to pretend nothing had happened and stay in that same furious, hungry zone.
Watkin Tudor Jones
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Cuban Americans have little in common with immigrants from Mexico and Central America, and often their priorities don't align. If it seems like Cuban Americans don't have to play by the same rules as everyone else, that's probably because they don't.
Fabrizio Moreira
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My first memory in life is grilling my thumb to the griddle in our restaurant on Cape Cod.
Rachael Ray
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I never mind talking about my dad. I'm proud of who he is, and being his son is one of the things I'm most proud of. To be constantly compared to someone so brilliant, who happens to be your dad, is cool.
Rafe Spall
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Health food makes me sick.
Calvin Trillin
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In autumn, when the leaves are brown,
Take pen and ink, and write it down.
Lewis Carroll
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I was drafted when I was 17, and I spent two years, and I lost a friend in war.
Gavin Hood
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I write for a radio show that, no matter what, will go on the air Saturday at five o'clock central time. You learn to write toward that deadline, to let the adrenaline pick you up on Friday morning and carry you through, to cook up a monologue about Lake Wobegon and get to the theater on time.
Garrison Keillor
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I was in 30-plus clubs when I was 14 years old.
T-Pain
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“Years are not needed for true repentance, and not days, but only an instant.”
Ambrose of Optina
