William Wilberforce Quotes

There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

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• Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Reason
  • Person
  • Liking

• I can't go to war with paparazzi.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • War
  • Go
  • Paparazzi

• Indian IT corporations have made work in the U.S. much more efficient by enhancing their productivity and quality of work. We have helped to add sufficient value to the corporations in the U.S.

  

  N. R. Narayana Murthy
  • Work
  • Value
  • Quality

• We may affirm, then, that the main drift of the later Renaissance was away from a humanism that favored a free expansion toward a humanism that was in the highest degree disciplinary and selective.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • May
  • Free
  • Renaissance

• We'll have to marshal our forces in Washington. It won't be easy. That doesn't mean it can't be done.

  

  Zev Yaroslavsky
  • Done
  • Easy
  • Washington

• We think of stars as celestial beings. And once in a while, they smile at us from the pages of 'People' magazine.

  

  A. E. Hotchner
  • People
  • Smile
  • Stars

• The demons are innumerable, appear at the most inconvenient times, and create panic and terror. But I have learnt that if I can master the negative forces and harness them to my chariot, then they can work to my advantage.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Work
  • Negative
  • Demons

• We want to build technology that everybody loves using, and that affects everyone. We want to create beautiful, intuitive services and technologies that are so incredibly useful that people use them twice a day. Like they use a toothbrush. There aren't that many things people use twice a day.

  

  Larry Page
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Technology

• I'm not a guy that ever got in a fight on the street and with the public and everybody.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Guy
  • Fight
  • Street

• Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Nature
  • Understand
  • Mistakes

• I've never been one for keeping a journal, so my songs were my journals. They allowed me to express my feelings and let people know what was going on with me. I knew that somebody would relate.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • People
  • Song
  • Feelings

• The Christian should be able to say with the psalmist, 'Oh, how I love your law.'

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Love
  • Law
  • Christian

• You have not forgotten to remember; You have remembered to forget. But people can forget to forget. That is just as important as remembering to remember - and generally more practical.

  

  Idries Shah
  • People
  • Important
  • Remember

• Music is a bird's answer to the noise and heaviness of words. It puts the mind in a state of exhilarated speechlessness.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Words

• Give me, for my life, all lives, give me all the pain of everyone, I'm going to turn it into hope. Give me all the joys, even the most secret, because otherwise how will these things be known? I have to tell them, give me the labors of everyday, for that's what I sing.

  

  Pablo Neruda
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Giving

• Political gerrymandering makes the incentive for most members of Congress to play to the extremes of their base rather than to the center.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Political

• A line is a dot that went for a walk.

  

  Paul Klee
  • Walk
  • Line
  • Dot

• I've been intrigued by politics my whole life. And, yes, I am very close to the Clintons. I was a Hillary person until I was an Obama person. And she was a Hillary person, too, until she was an Obama one, evidently.

  

  Kevin Spacey
  • Life
  • She
  • Persons

• There is no shortcut to holiness; it must be the business of our whole lives.

  

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