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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Collectivism and freedom are mortal enemies. Only one will survive.
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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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I think I have to expand my creativity a bit, because it's difficult for critics to be, "Oh, this person writes their own lyrics and sometimes writes their own beats and sometimes makes her own videos." They funnel me through, "Oh, is it as good as blah-blah's record, which has had 50 million writers on it?"
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Heaven, the seat of bliss, Brooks not the works of violence and war.
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Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.
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Verily I say unto you, he that heareth my word and believeth on Him that sent me, hath everlasting life, and shall not come into condemnation, but is passed from death unto life.' My friend, that is worth more than all the feeling you can have in a life-time.
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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."
