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 never thought I wanted to direct. I love the control of it. I love to dream of scenes.
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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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If this is a dream, then perhaps our dreaming Can touch life's height to a finer fire: Who knows but the heavens and all their seeming Were made by the heart's desire?One thing shines clear in the heart's sweet reason, One lightning over the chasm runs - That to turn from love is the world's one treason That darkens all the suns.
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When that strange race nears the dust and is condemned as untouchable, then nature remembers the physical perfection that she accomplished elsewhere, and throws out a god-not many, but one here and there, to prove to society how little its categories impress her.
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Her heart had grown so familiar to the pain of life without him, that to respond now seemed too large a pleasure she could not endure. If pain was love, then she loved fiercely. Yet knew she could not be near that boy again.
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All I did as a child was pretend to be James Bond or Marlon Brando. When I was about four, I put on my dad's work boots and went up and down the street with his walking stick pretending to be Charlie Chaplin.
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In all living nature (and perhaps also in that which we consider as dead) love is the motive force which drives the creative activity in the most diverse directions.
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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."
