Bess Streeter Aldrich Quotes
Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one,—Somewhere.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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The first prize for any production is, if you can find a location that means you don't have to build sets, that will serve, and is not excessively expensive to hire, then it can save you a lot of money.
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I don't think in words; I think in pictures, in images.
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It's true that I'm taking a break from writing a regular column to do other things but it's got nothing to do with what dear Simon has or has not written.
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The penalty of success is to be bored by people who used to snub you.
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This is a learning in the business life that first of all you need to have commitment, dedication and passion for what you are doing.
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One of the things I had to learn as a writer was to trust the act of writing. To put myself in the position of writing to find out what I was writing. I did that with 'World's Fair,' as with all of them. The inventions of the book come as discoveries.
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Going to a concert is so overwhelming and the energy is amazing.
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None of them want to delay. Understand that. None of them.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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I don't like sitting at a table that's too large, where everyone is too far apart. That's a party killer.
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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In the modern era, Jewish sovereignty over the land of our ancestors is a relatively short phenomenon. From the time of the successful Maccabean revolt to the Roman annexation in 63 BC constitutes about 100 years of Jewish rule. Combined with Israel's independence in 1948, this is about 160 years of effective sovereignty.
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I go to bed when the kids go to bed because I get up when they get up at 5.
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What happens when you get any kind of entrenched power is that it just becomes kind of corrupt and self-serving.
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Legree had had the slumbering moral elements in him roused by his encounters with Tom, - roused, only to be resisted by the determinate force of evil; but still there was a thrill and commotion of the dark, inner world, produced by every word, or prayer, or hymn, that reacted in superstitious dread.
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I have always been attracted to apostrophe, perhaps because of its resemblance to prayer. A voice reaches out to something beyond itself that cannot answer it. I find that moving in part because it enacts what is true of all address and communication on some level - it cannot fully be heard, understood, or answered.
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I think that Sufism fits all over the world. The concept is not anything that fits standard Western ideas - it's always related to culture, to music, to religion. It is a dominant religion in Senegal.
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Abbie would stop in her work and utter a prayer for him,—and, sent as it were from the bow of a mother's watchful care, bound by the cord of a mother's love, the little winged arrow on its flight must have reached Some one,—Somewhere.
