Nikolaj Velimirovic Quotes
Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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No officer should be allowed to behave as if they are above the law just because they are responsible for upholding the law. Permitting and protecting even the smallest acts of abuse by a tiny fraction of our officers leads to a culture where extreme acts of abuse are more likely, just like what happened to Laquan McDonald.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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With every social media, there's hate and things like that.
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Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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An injured lion still wants to roar.
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It was just a moment, and I saw myself. Then I no longer could say what I was.
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If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.
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When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'
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May the Lord our God prepare us for every event, then comes Life or Death - it is no great matter.
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If God is the Creator of the entire universe, then it must follow that He is the Lord of the whole universe. No part of the world is outside of His lordship. That means that no part of my life must be outside of His lordship.
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Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
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The process of writing a book is like the process of preparing a dinner. Serving dishes, choosing ingredients and so on.
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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
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Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.
