William Stringfellow Quotes
Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.William Stringfellow
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People always want to doubt you.
Zendaya -
I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
Marat Safin -
What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.
Yahya Jammeh -
I remember starting out and covering songs.
Bebe Rexha -
Charity is a very personal equation, like we say charity begins at home. It starts with your immediate help in the house: the people who work for you.
Malaika Arora Khan -
What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
Igor Stravinsky
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In falling over in heels while trying to look attractive, you don't just hurt your body, you bear the humiliation of injuring your very soul. Physical pain? Whatever, bring it on. But the humiliation? Oh, you have seen to the very weakest part of me.
Kate Reardon -
I like making sci-fi movies because I like watching sci-fi movies. I like watching horror. I like being in a horror movie. I'm a fan. My perspective's a little different just because I get to participate as well as spectate.
Nathan Fillion -
I used to want covers that represented the book's contents very closely and were also pretty. Many folks automatically believe that this is what makes a good cover. But I've changed my mind about this. While the cover should not lie (by implication or outright), its job is simply to say: 'Pick me up!' to someone who might like the book.
Nancy Werlin -
Big stories need human stakes.
Aaron Swartz -
I buy food and gasoline - that's it.
Kat Dennings -
It's kind of weird. You can have hits, but it's hard to sustain a career. I went through that period where I didn't have a lot of hits, although people were still buying the records.
Gary Wright
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I never read books - and still don't read books - to develop them.
Frances McDormand -
I listen to a lot of choral stuff at home, but I'm also liking Labrinth, Emeli Sande, Tom Odell and Wretch 32.
Laura Mvula -
Probability is not about the odds, but about the belief in the existence of an alternative outcome, cause, or motive.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
Promoters do not have a divine right to stay in charge regardless of how badly they mismanage an enterprise, nor do they have the right to use the banking system to recapitalize their failed ventures.
Raghuram Rajan -
We need not hide anything from Truth, for it never condemns us, but only wishes to help.
Vernon Howard -
Badness is only spoiled goodness.
C. S. Lewis
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It's estimated that by 2030 there will be virtually no unskilled jobs in the British economy.
Lucy Powell -
I love good creditable acquaintance; I love to be the worst of the company.
Jonathan Swift -
The most important advances, the qualitative leaps, are the least predictable. Not even the best scientists predicted the impact of nuclear physics, and everyday consumer items such as the iPhone would have seemed magic back in the 1950s.
Martin Rees -
I want to have the fairy-tale life with a wife and three or four kids. It will come.
Cris Judd -
If I had said, "I don't stand a chance," one thing is clear: I wouldn't have.
Chuck Norris -
Perhaps the moral ambiguity of money is most plainly evidenced in the popular belief that money itself has value and that the worth of other things or of men is somehow measured in monetary terms, rather than the other way around.
William Stringfellow