Rex Stout Quotes
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What we really need is compassion of the mind - compassion for others that is directed intelligently and produces truly compassionate results.
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You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
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Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
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The width of a line may present the idea of infinity. An epigram may contain a world. In the same way, a small picture format may be much more living, much more leavening, stirring, awakening, than square yards of wall space.
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The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
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If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.
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It is art that makes life, makes interest, makes importance and I know of no substitute whatever for the force and beauty of its process.
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Than Timoleon's arms require,And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.
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If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
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The Christian life is stamped by 'moral spontaneous originality,' consequently the disciple is open to the same charge that Jesus Christ was, viz., that of inconsistency. But Jesus Christ was always consistent to God, and the Christian must be consistent to the life of the Son of God in him, not consistent to hard and fast creeds. Men pour themselves into creeds, and God has to blast them out of their prejudices before they can become devoted to Jesus Christ.
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I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.
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Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
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Everything I think seems to be controversial, so I feel like I need to just go away for a second and put it all down on paper until the storm passes.
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My feeling about all films and all television is that it's an adventure. That's the way I have to look at it. Because you don't know what the climate of the circumstance is going to be. It could be very good. It could be very mediocre. It could be very bad. You don't know. But I've been doing it long enough now to know that it's an adventure. That's what it's all about.
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To pray is to open the door unto Jesus and admit Him into your distress. Your helplessness is the very thing which opens wide the door unto Him and gives Him access to all your needs.
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There were sometimes from forty to sixty English machines, but unfortunately the Germans were often in the minority. With them quality was more important than quantity.
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Mom and Dad had a lot to answer for, she decided. She couldn’t even be rude to evil vampires who’d caged her boyfriend and were preparing to roast him alive.
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That which in mean men we entitle patience is pale cold cowardice in noble breasts.
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One of the reasons I'm an actor is because I was no physical specimen as a child. I wasn't athletic and didn't have any prowess in that regard. Growing up in Kentucky, most little boys were trying to get into sports, and it was very competitive, so that was not to be. But I did want to do something.
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MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
