Callimachus Quotes
Walls and stones may fall in the wind when it blows like a Thracian torrent, but a god stands forever
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A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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I am writing a book called 'The History of Australia in Hundred Objects.' It's of things we have invented in Australia. And you know, some of them are amazing. We invented the clapper boards used in films. We invented those cranes - those big long cranes used on construction sites.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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Kids accept where they are because they don't know the past. They know what they have; they know where they are.
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I have a three-year-old and a four-year-old at home, and my mornings are about just dealing with the fact of that. I oddly enjoy it.
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Sometimes I talk to religious people about my column or what I do, and I ask them to, you know, read 20 or 30 of them and then come tell me that the message at the heart of every column isn't, 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.' In every possible sense.
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We women are going to bring change. We are speaking up for girls' rights, but we must not behave like men, like they have done in the past.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I thrive with fashion and shopping and imports and things like that. It gives me a rush. I love Barneys New York and Neiman Marcus and all the top-of-the-line houses.
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I'm not angry. And I don't like the thing of the 'angry black woman,' either.
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I mean no film is beyond criticism, but I think we've made a very modest movie.
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If you're a governor of a big state, people sense your presence a little bit, even your fellow governors.
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I just have work to do; I just do it.
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I'm not a guy that ever got in a fight on the street and with the public and everybody.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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When I'm all alone it's the best way to be. When I'm by myself nobody else can say goodbye. Everything is temporary anyway. When the streets are wet - the colors slip into the sky. But I don't know why that means you and I are - that means you and... I quit, I give up. Nothin's good enough for anybody else, it seems.
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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In terms of the music, it feels almost like trouble's a good thing - you never know when a song is going to surprise you. We look for these subversive moments in songs.
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Someday, when I'm awfully low, and the world is cold, I will feel a glow just thinking of you, and the way you look tonight.
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If we incline our wills in true earnest singleness to God, then we go with Christ out of this world, out from the stars and elements, and enter into God; for in the will of reason we are children of the stars and elements, and the spirit of this world ruleth over us.
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Nature has some perfections to show that she is the image of God, and some defects to show that she is only His image.
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Walls and stones may fall in the wind when it blows like a Thracian torrent, but a god stands forever
