Bernard of Clairvaux Quotes
So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
Quotes to Explore
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I played Winnie Cooper on 'The Wonder Years' from ages 12-18, and did a few other movies during some of the summers.
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I was raised on movie sets, and I decided for myself at a very young age that it was what I wanted to do.
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The world's entire scientific and cultural heritage, published over centuries in books and journals, is increasingly being digitized and locked up by a handful of private corporations.
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I realized I was more convincing to myself and to the people who were listening when I actually said what I thought, versus what I thought people wanted to hear me say.
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I couldn't help but be impressed by the magnitude of the earthquake.
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The night before the Nobel announcement every year, I've gone to bed feeling quite anxious. I was optimistic, and also I knew it might never happen.
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To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.
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Repartee is something we think of twenty-four hours too late.
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Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways God is opening up ways of fellowship with His Son. Most of us collapse at the first grip of pain. We sit down at the door of God’s purpose and enter a slow death through self-pity. And all the so-called Christian sympathy of others helps us to our deathbed. But God will not. He comes with the grip of the pierced hand of His Son, as if to say, “Enter into fellowship with Me; arise and shine.” If God can accomplish His purposes in this world through a broken heart, then why not thank Him for breaking yours?
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The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.
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There is, however, a change going on in the world. There's far more interest in drawing now than there has been in a long, long time. Schools are beginning to teach drawing again in a serious and meaningful way.
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And just as we acquaint ourselves with materials, just as we must understand functions, so we must become familiar with the psychological and spiritual factors of our day. No cultural activity is possible otherwise; for we are dependent on the spirit of our time.
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I have known some magnificent young people who died very young but had wonderful lives and inspired many people by their short existence.
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As iron is eaten away by rust, so the envious are consumed by their own passion.
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He started when he was 17. It's great, but it's not the stuff I care about. It's something he'll look back on some day and say, 'That's remarkable.
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I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.
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Justice is a certain rectitude of mind whereby a man does what he ought to do in the circumstances confronting him.
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But what can a decent man speak of with most pleasure? Answer: Of himself. Well, so I will talk about myself.
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You told me you had destroyed it. I was wrong. It has destroyed me.
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The one true freedom in life is to come to terms with death, and as early as possible, for death is an event that embraces all our lives. And the only way to have a good death is to lead a good life. The more we do God's will, the less unfinished business we leave behind when we die.
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So far from being able to answer for my sins, I cannot even answer for my righteousness!
