Walter Hilton Quotes
When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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I want to reach as many women throughout the world as I can.
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My goal is to make people feel passionately, if it's negative or positive, I did my job.
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It is true that integrity alone won't make you a leader, but without integrity you will never be one.
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Let's create a legal system that can work.
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If I played tennis, I had to be in a dance class. I always had multiple activities, so I never had to count on any one of them to feel successful.
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I'm writing, and just doing the same thing I always do.
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I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.
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Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
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I hand him a lyric and get out of his way.
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Men think for themselves when they’re men.
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Great nations need organizing principles, and ‘Don’t do stupid stuff’ is not an organizing principle.
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The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.
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There's a lot of work that goes into it - if you think about how many collections a year that Karl Lagerfeld has to do, with Chanel and all the other things he does - you can't do that unless you are working 18 hours a day. It's really a lot of hard, hard work.
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Actually, I've had very little classical training, although I love listening to classical music very much.
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I'm not good at finding 'encouraging' features in American culture. I doubt that aesthetic literacy has much of a future here.
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I just happened to start playing music for the conceptual ideas.
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I love all food. All of it. I wish I could be a professional eater.
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If I examine the circumstances which inspired me to write – and this is not mere self-indulgence, but a desire for accuracy – I see clearly that the starting point of it all for me was war.
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There's no such thing as life without bloodshed. I think the notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.
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According to its doctors, my one intransigent desire is to have been a Confederate general, and because I could not or would not become anything else, I set up for poet and beg an to invent fictions about the personal ambitions that my society has no use for.
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It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!
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When you attack the roots of sin, fix your thought more on the God you desire than on the sin you abhor.
