Winifred Holtby Quotes
All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!
Quotes to Explore
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I found thee not, O Lord, without, because I erred in seeking thee without that wert within.
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This is going right to the police. So, it's a very dangerous precedent.
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Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.
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The Lord is greater than all: I have said enough.
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It's dangerous to read the Internet about yourself when you're me. Or when you're anyone in the public eye.
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The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.
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The Lord has never spoken to me, but I feel Chick-fil-A has been His gift.
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Doing some of the 'Lord Of The Rings' press junkets got a bit claustrophobic.
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'Lord of the Rings' was about saving the world, big time, big duties.
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A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.
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Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
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The extremes of jungles, mountains, and deserts are inherently dangerous places.
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Most redoubted lord and right sovereign cousin, may the Almighty Lord have you in his keeping.
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Success is dangerous. One begins to copy oneself, and to copy oneself is more dangerous than to copy others. It leads to sterility.
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Then I would have felt sorry for the dear Lord. The theory is correct.
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Our Lord's first obedience was to the will of his Father, not to the needs of men; the saving of men was the natural outcome of his obedience to the Father.
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I only ask to go where the Lord would have me go, and only to receive what the Lord would have me receive, knowing that more important than sight is the witness that one may have by the witness of the Holy Ghost to his soul that things are so and that Jesus is the Christ, a living personage. Harold B. Lee
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The inattentive, slovenly way we drift into the presence of God is an indication that we are not bothering to think about Him. Whenever our Lord spoke of prayer, He said, "Ask." It is impossible to ask if you do not concentrate.
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Muslims are the first victims of Islam. Many times I have observed in my travels in the Orient that fanaticism comes from a small number of dangerous men who maintain the others in the practice of religion by terror. To liberate the Muslim from his religion is the best service one can render him.
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When an American says that he loves his country, he means not only that he loves the New England hills, the prairies glistening in the sun, the wide and rising plains, the great mountains and the sea. He means that he loves an inner air, inner life in which freedom lives. In which a man can draw the breath of self-respect.
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What is freedom? It consists in two things: to know each his own limitations and accept them – that is the same thing as to know oneself, and accept oneself as one is, without fear, or envy, or distaste; and to recognise and accept the conditions under which one lives, also without fear or envy, or distaste. When you do this, you shall be free.
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If the birth of a genius resembles that of an idiot, the end of a Havana Corona resembles that of a 5-cent cigar.
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Give me a prejudice and I will move the world.
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All adventuring is rash, and all innovations dangerous. But not nearly so dangerous as stagnation and dry rot. From grooves, cliques, clichés and resignation - Good Lord deliver us!
