Richard Lewis Springthorpe (Rick Springfield) Quotes

The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!

Richard Lewis Springthorpe

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• The world is all gates, all opportunities, strings of tension waiting to be struck.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
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• All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.

  

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• The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

  

  Salman Rushdie
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• One of the great things personally coming to Hawai'i is my friendship of Jim Nicholson.

  

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• Our power creates collective production in the service of the people and the revolution, destroys exploiting production, transforms individualistic producers into producers integrated into the collectivity.

  

  Samora Machel
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• The true, strong, and sound mind is the mind that can embrace equally great things and small.

  

  Samuel Johnson
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• You don't see your prison because its bars are invisible.

  

  Dan Millman

• I wonder wonder why the wonder falls I wonder why the wonder falls on me I wonder wonder why the wonder falls With everything I touch and hear and see

  

  Andy Partridge
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• Our system presumes that there are certain principles that are more important than the temper of the times. And you must have a judge who is detached, who is independent, who is fair, who is committed only to those principles, and not public pressures of other sort.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Important
  • Independent
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• We can be bought, but we can't be bored.

  

  Lynn Fontanne
  • Bored

• If you want to see the sunshine, you have to weather the storm.

  

  Frank Lane
  • Storm
  • Sunshine

• I will laugh at the laughable while I breathe.

  

  Mary Boykin Chesnut
  • Breathe

• I just think in order for someone to understand my game, they have to watch me more than once, because I'm not going to do anything that's extra flashy or freakishly athletic.

  

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• Let's be clear, I'm a strong woman.

  

  Bethenny Frankel
  • Strong

• I've never read it because I'd like to see one Shakespeare play that I don't know what happens. I close my ears and hum whenever I hear anything about 'Pericles, Prince of Tyre.'

  

  Andre Braugher
  • Prince

• I'm married now, but back when I had girlfriends, you were always wondering if they liked you, and if you liked them enough. You're together, but the smallest thing could make one of you go 'You know what? This isn't working!'

  

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• We worked with Max Martin's team, MXM, who are the best in the business as well. We worked with Stargate, which was phenomenal, and Victoria Monet.

  

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• I know divers, and divers men know me, which love me as I do them: yet if I should pray them, when I meet them in the street openly, they would abhor me; but if I pray them where they be appointed to meet me secretly, they will hear me and accept my request.

  

  William Tyndale
  • Men
  • Prayer
  • Accepting

• Life is short and the time of death is uncertain; so apply yourself to meditation. Avoid doing evil, and acquire merit, to the best of your ability, even at the cost of life itself. In short: Act so that you have no cause to be ashamed of yourselves and hold fast to this rule.

  

  Milarepa
  • Meditation
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• Europeans could not believe that anything so beautiful could have been designed by a non-European. Europeans of the time considered the people of India uncivilized. They recognized that it was a magnificent building. So they thought it couldn’t have been designed by an Indian.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
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• We believe in liberty, we believe in limited government, we believe in free enterprise, we believe in family values and the sanctity of human life, and we all believe Washington needs a good dose of Economics 101.

  

  Kurt Bills
  • Life
  • Good
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• A consultant solves other people"s problems. I could never do that. I want to help other people solve their own problems.

  

  Charles Handy
  • People
  • Help
  • Problems

• The great thing about meditation is that I don’t ask for anything. Whereas when I pray I always ask for things!

  

  Richard Lewis Springthorpe
  • Meditation
  • Praying
  • Asks