Caryll Houselander Quotes
Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."
Quotes to Explore
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I am telling you, if you ever wanted an ego boost, leave your job and then, six months later, come back for a day. People will treat you like you're a princess.
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Gossip, even when it avoids the sexual, bears around it a faint flavor of the erotic.
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It was my mother's idea. Her feeling was that I didn't have the intelligence to pick a trade myself.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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Pakistan is not a rogue state, but it harbours and covertly supports rogue elements. While war is not the answer, hard or coercive diplomacy could be.
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I am a citizen of the world.
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Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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I believe the people of the U.S. are peace-loving people.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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I have won 85 caps and have had a great career with Wales and have enjoyed every minute of it.
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I am continually pleasantly surprised by how many people are showing up at shows and are younger than our first record.
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I am an African and I am very proud of that.
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I haven't understood a bar of music in my life, but I have felt it.
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Well, the stuff that has become more commercial doesn't have any edge.
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When people ask me what the most important thing is in life, I answer: 'Just breathe.'
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Frequent prayer has great value. On its surface, this sounds simplistic. But if we're to keep prayer at the forefront of our ministry, we and our people have to pray again and again.
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I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
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I want to be honest with you. We did not achieve the agreement we expected before the January elections... I feel the deep ethical and political responsibility to put to your judgment all I have done, successes and failures.
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It seems that the only gun violence some leftists approve of is gun violence aimed at cops and other groups they see as oppressive or racist.
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No, I didn't work it out upside down, I never turned it around.
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The American dream seems to be thriving in Europe not at home.
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It is easy for Christians to have the false impression that once we have established a relationship with Christ, which we believe sets us right with God, the problems of life will somehow scoot away or they will slowly be removed from our lives.
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Every ordinary thing in your life is a word of God's love: your home, your work, the clothes you wear, the air you breathe, the food you eat.... the flowers under your feet are the courtesy of God's heart flung down on You! All these things say one thing only: "See how I love you."
