Fanny Crosby Quotes

'Give,' said the little stream, 'Give, oh give, give, oh give,'As it hurried down the hill.'I am small, I know, but wherever I go The fields grow greener still.'

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• The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.

  

  Aaron Swartz
  • Work
  • Internet
  • Movement

• When I write sad songs, I feel like I'm sewing up a scar in me, and the outcome always feels so much better than when I write happy ones.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Better

• It is one of the primary motives of modern art that it wants to abolish the distance which the viewer, the consumer, the audience maintain vis-a-vis a work of art.

  

  Hans-Georg Gadamer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Distance

• The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

  

  Maira Kalman
  • Home
  • Ideas
  • Library

• I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Know
  • Play
  • Golf

• I have always been delighted at the prospect of a new day, a fresh try, one more start, with perhaps a bit of magic waiting somewhere behind the morning.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Day
  • Morning
  • Waiting

• The questions don't do the damage. Only the answers do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Questions
  • Answers
  • Damage

• I grew up in a village of 12 houses. We had a well and a cow.

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Up
  • Village
  • Houses

• He who improves an opportunity sows a seed which will yield fruit in opportunity for himself and others.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Opportunity
  • Fruit
  • Seed

• You can't say what the outcome of a competition is going to be, so now I am ready to accept any result that comes my way, if I give my best shot.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
  • Way
  • Competition
  • Result

• Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.

  

  Nadia Comaneci
  • Career
  • End
  • Sense

• I'm such a perfectionist.

  

  Candice Glover
  • Perfectionist

• Spiritual practice should not be confused with grim duty. It is the laughter of the Dalai Lama and the wonder born with every child.

  

  Jack Kornfield
  • Spiritual
  • Wonder
  • Practice

• Sometimes, poor people don't smell too good, so love can have no nose.

  

  Tammy Faye Bakker
  • People
  • Good
  • Love

• It is better to predict dramatic things that don't happen than boring things that do.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Better
  • Boring
  • Predict

• Any psychologist will tell you that healing comes from honest confrontation with our injury or with our past. Whatever that thing is that has hurt us or traumatized us, until we face it head on, we will have issues moving forward in a healthy way.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Past
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  • Hurt

• As film-makers, it is very important for us to find common ground between cultures, and maybe that's less the case for politicians who benefit more from finding the conflicts and differences between us.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
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  • Find
  • Differences

• 'She's Dynamite' was a 100 years ago, and I recorded that song because the company thought that it was a great song and it was hot. That was the beginning of rock n' roll, and I guess they thought it would be a BB King version of rock n' roll.

  

  B. B. King
  • Great
  • She
  • Song

• Style…is a peculiar recasting and heightening, under a certain condition of spiritual excitement, of what a man has to say, in such a manner as to add dignity and distinction to it.

  

  Matthew Arnold
  • Style
  • Spiritual

• I knew I'd love being a mom, but it's so much cooler than I even thought it would be.

  

  Annie Wersching
  • Mom

• There is no greater ladder into the middle class than education.

  

  Martin O'Malley
  • Education

• Many unfortunate human situations unfold ... where people who face very bad options take desperate gambles, accepting a high probability of making things worse in exchange for a small hope of avoiding a large loss. Risk taking of this king often turns manageable failures into disasters.

  

  Daniel Kahneman
  • People
  • Bad
  • High

• It's remarkable what a new kidney does to your life. I have no complaints... I'm pretty amazed. I have been working on my stamina.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • Life
  • Pretty
  • Working

• 'Give,' said the little stream, 'Give, oh give, give, oh give,'As it hurried down the hill.'I am small, I know, but wherever I go The fields grow greener still.'

  

  Fanny Crosby
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