Catherine Marshall (Catherine Sarah Wood Marshall LeSourd) Quotes
God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.

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We must continue building in all corners of the Land of Israel, with determination and without being confused.
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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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The symbolic value of having an African-American president has certainly eased some racial tensions in America, but they're not gone.
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Your audience gives you everything you need. They tell you. There is no director who can direct you like an audience.
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I want to empower and educate and inspire individuals who are giving to give in a way that is more meaningful. The more meaningful our giving is, the more giving we will do.
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I'd like mostly stuff for design, because I like to design clothing.
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A transfer of money should never be involved in this profound situation. Although illness is profound, too, but medicine's a business today. It's a business.
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You come to me and it's my job to make you look the best you can look. From an image point of view, would I prefer to dress Jude Law instead of Rolf Harris? Of course. But it's my job to make them both look great.
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I don't need to scare the other athletes. When I'm running, I will scare them.
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Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
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How can you just throw words around like grieve and heal and mourn?
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A thermonuclear war cannot be considered a continuation of politics by other means (according to the formula of Clausewitz). It would be a means of universal suicide.
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If I don't fish in the morning, I fish in the evening.
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Plus, I very much like the feeling of height, and buildings have even more of a feeling of height than rock faces.
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With apologies to all my past boyfriends, I never loved a man the way I loved my old apartment.
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I believe in women having a voice, being empowered, speaking up, and having ideas.
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We all have done something unethical.
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Old guys can still do fun things.
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God does not give heed to the ambitiousness of our prayers, because he is always ready to give to us his light, not a visible light but an intellectual and spiritual one; but we are not always ready to receive it when we turn aside and down to other things out of a desire for temporal things.
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A formula for comedy is comedy equals tragedy plus time. A difficult or uncomfortable situation takes place, and then you laugh about it later down the road.
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Language rarely lies. It can reveal the insincerity of a writer's claims simply through a grating adjective or an inflated phrase. We come upon a frenzy of words and suspect it hides a paucity of feeling.
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God insists that we ask, not because He needs to know our situation, but because we need the spiritual discipline of asking.