Walter Cradock Quotes
Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.
Quotes to Explore
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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Ideas sometimes come from nowhere, and sometimes they take lots of thinking.
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I couldn't do what I do day-in and day-out if I didn't love the game.
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I first saw the ocean as a kid. We would drive from Arizona in the summer and arrive as the sun was starting to come down over the hill near Laguna in southern California. We would always sing a song, and it was a big joyous family moment when we came over the hill.
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Vietnam was the first time that Americans of different races had to depend on each other. In the Second World War, they were segregated; it was in Vietnam that American integration happened in the military - and it wasn't easy.
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Starting my career as a kid, I was doing what jobs I got.
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The real test of a saint is not one's willingness to preach the gospel, but one's willingness to do something like washing the disciples' feet - that is, being willing to do those things that seem unimportant in human estimation but count as everything to God.
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I have known some quite good people who were unhappy, but never an interested person who was unhappy.
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The story depicts also the troubled part of the hero's life which precedes and leads up to his death; and an instantaneous death occurring by 'accident' in the midst of prosperity would not suffice for it. It is, in fact, essentially a tale of suffering and calamity conducting to death.
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I think conveying the emotion of the collective "we" is pretty incredible. Especially in tumultuous times like we are in now.
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It is while practicing yoga asanas that you learn the art of adjustment.
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I believe that there are forces of light and darkness in the world, and I don't want to be a contributor to the force of darkness.
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You've got to walk and talk with God to go to heaven... I have the devil in me! If I didn't have, I'd be Christian!
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Memphis was almost like going to California. Beale Street was the black man's street.
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The world over - 50 million children start playing tennis, 5 million learn to play tennis, 500,000 learn professional tennis, 50,000 come to the circuit, 5000 reach the grand slam, 50 reach Wimbledon, 4 to semi final, 2 to the finals, when I was holding a cup I never asked GOD 'Why me?'. And today in pain I should not be asking GOD 'Why me?'
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If, as I have reason to believe, I have disintegrated the nucleus of the atom, this is of greater significance than the war.
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If you keep making jokes like that, somebody is going to shoot you, father.
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In the best of times, our days are numbered anyway. So it would be a crime against nature for any generation to take the world crisis so solemnly that it put off enjoying those things for which we were designed in the first place: the opportunity to do good work, to enjoy friends, to fall in love, to hit a ball, and to bounce a baby.
