Bel Kaufman Quotes
St. Peter: “Who is knocking at my gate?” Voice: “It is I.” St. Peter: “Go away, we don’t need any more school teachers here!
Bel Kaufman
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Whoever knocks persistently, ends by entering.
Muhammad Ali
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For to interpose a little ease, Let our frail thoughts dally with false surmise.
John Milton
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Man's nature, so to speak, is a perpetual factory of idols.
John Calvin
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Every artist preserves deep within him a single source from which, throughout his lifetime, he draws what he is, and what he says. When the source dries up, the work withers and crumbles.
Albert Camus
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I always just thought if you see somebody without a smile, give'em yours!
Dolly Parton
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Mima. No despair. She was dying, and there was not one sign of despair in her dancing eyes.
Benjamin Alire Saenz
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A true pilot must of necessity pay attention to the seasons, the heavens, the stars, the winds, and everything proper to the craft if he is really to rule a ship.
William Shatner
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Better guilt than the terrible burden of freedom and responsibility.
Ernest Becker
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We have the Bible in our hands; but how little we know of its teaching! And how little are we governed by it! We go on, from week to week, year to year, with things which have no foundation whatever in its pages- yea, with things utterly opposed to its teaching; and, all the while, we boast of having the Scriptures, just like the Jews of old, who made their boast of having the oracles of God, while those very oracles condemned themselves and their ways, and left them without a single plea.
Charles Henry Mackintosh
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You can keep knocking me down forever, I'll keep getting up and trying.
Michelle Rodriguez
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St. Peter: “Who is knocking at my gate?” Voice: “It is I.” St. Peter: “Go away, we don’t need any more school teachers here!
Bel Kaufman