Anthony the Great Quotes
One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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We have been given a role to play. We have been asked to provide, to give lectures on the role of Islamic development and the way we do it here, so the people who are Muslims there would understand what the role of Islam is.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The Irish do not want anyone to wish them well; they want everyone to wish their enemies ill.
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And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world.
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The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
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If you ask three people what it means to be Christian, you will get three different answers. Some feel being baptized is sufficient. Others feel you must accept the Bible as immutable historical fact. Still others require a belief that all those who do not accept Christ as their personal savior are doomed to hell.
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Steve Jobs changed my life. He also changed the life of every designer.
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I've been training quite hard.
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Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see it's not an issue of black and white, it's an issue of Lovers and Haters.
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Nature hates calculators.
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I work hard. The staff and crew see how much energy I put into this project, and it makes them step up.
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But I was sure of one thing. If God were a father, with children, that cleanliness I had been feeling wasn't God.
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We have a legal and moral obligation to rid our world of nuclear tests and nuclear weapons.
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Whenever anybody that I trusted brought along some new chemical, I would open my mouth and off I'd go.
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The magic's in my hands When in doubt I whip it out I got me a rock 'n' roll band It's a free-for-all
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Patience serves us against insults precisely as clothes do against the cold. For if you multiply your garments as the cold increases, that cold cannot hurt you; in the same way increase your patience under great offences, and they cannot hurt your feelings.
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It isn't about the words you say. It's about the energetic message you send.
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Just as the constant increase of entropy is the basic law of the universe, so it is the basic law of life to be ever more highly structured and to struggle against entropy.
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When we first started doing bridal, I found the bridal business very archaic; it was very removed from general fashion.
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Those Islamists and their apologists who argue for 'religious toleration' are arrogantly dishonest.
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My first 'Daily Show' piece was pretending I had this terrible immigrant journey, so I went to talk to an immigration lawyer who would help out people, and I ran into him in Penn Station about three months after I'd gotten the green card. I said, 'I got my green card yesterday.' And he hugged me because he understood that level of relief.
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I hope to build a house with my films. Some of them are the cellar, some are the walls, and some are the windows. But I hope in time there will be a house.
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One should not say that it is impossible to reach a virtuous life; but one should say that it is not easy. Nor do those who have reached it find it easy to maintain.
