Bettany Hughes Quotes
So at that time of day when the early sun still rings haloes on human heads, Socrates is walking through the Agora to his judgement day.
Bettany Hughes
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After long and careful consideration, we have elected not to match the offer sheet presented to us by Lamar Odom, ... In the final analysis, the decision was based on issues of character and other risks involved.
Elgin Baylor
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My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence.
Chuck Norris
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The caged eagle become a metaphor for all forms of isolation, the ultimate in imprisonment. A zoo is prison.
Nadine Gordimer
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I mean it's the writing, not the being read, that excites me.
Virginia Woolf
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In the whole story of Jesus Christ, the most important event is the resurrection.
William Lyon Phelps
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Pathology has made us acquainted with a great number of states in which the boundary lines between the ego and the external world become uncertain or in which they are actually drawn incorrectly. There are cases in which parts of a person's own body, even portions of his own mental life - his perceptions, thoughts and feelings -, appear alien to him and as not belonging to his ego; there are other cases in which he ascribes to the external world things that clearly originate in his own ego and that ought to be acknowledged by it.
Sigmund Freud
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Coffee falls into the stomach... ideas begin to move, things remembered arrive at full gallop... the shafts of wit start up like sharp-shooters, similes arise, the paper is covered with ink...
Honore de Balzac
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I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
Boy George
Culture Club
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Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing.
Luc Besson
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The beginning of prayer is silence. If we really want to pray we must first learn to listen, for in the silence of the heart God speaks. And to be able to see that silence, to be able to hear God we need a clean heart; for a clean heart can see God, can hear God, can listen to God; and then only from the fullness of our heart can we speak to God. But we cannot speak unless we have listened, unless we have made that connection with God in the silence of our heart.
Mother Teresa
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Christianity is not devotion to work, or to a cause, or a doctrine, but devotion to a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ.
Oswald Chambers
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The theist and the scientist are rival interpreters of nature, the one retreats as the other advances.
Joseph McCabe
