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.
Harry Browne -
You don't just wake up one morning and decide to become a singer-songwriter.
Karen Elson -
Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.
Jack Gould -
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.
Hans Hofmann -
The key question to keep asking is, Are you spending your time on the right things? Because time is all you have.'
Randy Pausch -
If you're not brave, you're not going to be free.
Newt Gingrich
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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.
Max Eastman -
Than Timoleon's arms require,And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.
Mark Akenside -
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.
Oswald Chambers -
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.
Oswald Chambers -
I like to read and write and take pictures and bike.
Alex D. Linz -
Life itself seeks fulfillment as plants seek sunlight.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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We need sound bodies so we can develop sound minds.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar -
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.
M.I.A. -
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.
Lance Henriksen -
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.
Ole Hallesby -
As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
Venus Williams -
Dusk is just an illusion because the sun is either above the horizon or below it. And that means that day and night are linked in a way that few things are there cannot be one without the other yet they cannot exist at the same time. How would it feel I remember wondering to be always together yet forever apart?
Nicholas Sparks
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The most important thing is to have a sense of responsibility, commitment, and concern for each of our fellow human beings.
Dalai Lama -
Read the Bible, read the Bible! Let no religious book take its place. Through all my perplexities and distresses, I seldom read any other book, and I as rarely felt the want of any other.
William Wilberforce -
MY rule is never to be rude to anyone unless you mean it.
Rex Stout