Charles de Foucauld Quotes
You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way.
Quotes to Explore
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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Lunch is for wimps.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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I was always fascinated with science, and being Persian, it's instilled in us at a young age to follow something very academic in our career.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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What moves me in art is how we question who we are as people.
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I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.
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I'm totally myself.
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The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
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The nearest we approach God ...is as creative beings. The poet, by echoing the primary imagination, recreates. Through his work he forces those who read him to do the same, thus bringing them... nearer to the actual being of God as displayed in action.
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God has stepped in at the last minute more than once in history (remember Moses at the Red Sea?). And He can do the same for you. Keep turning the pages by faith and let the story play out to the end.
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I believe opportunity doesn't knock twice!
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God and His Priest and King,...make up a heaven of our misery.
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People fall in private, long before they fall in public. The tree falls with a great crash, but the secret decay which accounts for it, is often not discovered until it is down on the ground.
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You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way.
