Antonio Vieira Quotes

Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.

Antonio Vieira

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• All institutions have lapses, even great ones, especially by individual rogue employees - famously in recent years at 'The Washington Post,' 'The New York Times,' and the three original TV networks.

  

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• For me, the greatest good fortune I have being raised by actors is I came in knowing that a career is the ebb and flow.

  

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• People always accused me of not smiling like my rival Olga Korbut, but that was just my personality. When you're balancing on a nine-inch beam, you have to concentrate. But if you look back at the footage, I was always smiling and waving at the crowd after my performances.

  

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• I love the color pink. It makes a bold statement.

  

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• My father taught me many important giving lessons, but two stand out. First, always give as much as you possibly can. And second, give equally from among your resources - your time, your mind and your capital. These are principles I live by.

  

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• There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.

  

  R. J. Cutler
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• The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.

  

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• I would love to work with Reese Witherspoon.

  

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• Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.

  

  Sam Smith
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• I love brawling, but I'm a smart fighter.

  

  Canelo Alvarez
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• I do think from time to time that conceptual questions arise: What do we mean by equilibrium? What do we mean by this concept and that concept?

  

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• My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.

  

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• There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

  

  J. G. Ballard
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• The system was aided by the Church, whose natural interests allied it more to the great than to the meek.

  

  Barbara W. Tuchman
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• There are no ghosts, my love. Death is final. The soul is that ineffable combination of memory and personality which we carry through life...when life departs, the soul also dies. Except for what we leave in the memory of those who loved us.

  

  Dan Simmons
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• The distinction between the world of commerce and that of 'culture' quickly became the distinction between infrastructure and superstructure, with the former clearly determining the latter.

  

  Allan Bloom
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• There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self.

  

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• I know your kind, he said. What’s wrong with you is wrong all the way through you.

  

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• It is depressing to hear the unfortunate or dying man jest.

  

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• I would say, yeah, I'm a spiritual person.

  

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• In his litany of famous immigrants who have contributed mightily to America, JFK does not mention a single woman, African or Asian. All are males and all were from Europe, except one West Indian: Alexander Hamilton. And JFK assures the nation, 'Immigrants would still be given tests for health, intelligence, morality and security...'

  

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• I cook British food, but it doesn't mean I'm jingoistic about it. People can cook very good fusion food.

  

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• When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right ; when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world.

  

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• Don't you know, priests, why our sermons do not touch the people's heart? Because we do not preach to the eyes, only to the ears.

  

  Antonio Vieira
  • People
  • Heart
  • Eye