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."
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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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In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.
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Everyone at 'CSI' has been so great to work with, and so great in terms of scheduling. There's a real feeling of family on that set... I've grown to have so much respect for the cast and crew - they're been together so many years and still care about the show and each other.
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A neighbor is something that belongs to the stable world of home life, the thing that lives next door to you.
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When you really put your heart and soul into something, the temptation is to try to be in control of circumstances, however you can, and looking and seeing how people are responding. But I realized, early on, that that was just not going to be a healthy thing for me to do.
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Often, the fact that I haven't done something as a writer is all the reason I need to try it.
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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."
