William Griffith Thomas Quotes

Faith affects the whole of man's nature. It commences with the conviction of the mind based on adequate evidence; it continues in the confidence of the heart or emotions based on conviction, and it is crowned in the consent of the will by means of which the conviction and confidence are expressed in conduct.

William Griffith Thomas

• Heart
• Mean
• Emotion
• Conviction
• Consent
• Adequate

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• There was a point where I really felt I had 'penniless divorcee lone parent' tattooed on my head.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Parent
  • Point
  • Where

• I am interested in the way that we look at a given landscape and take possession of it in our blood and brain. None of us lives apart from the land entirely; such an isolation is unimaginable.

  

  N. Scott Momaday
  • Land
  • Landscape
  • Isolation

• I'd realize it's not worth our time to worry. You do your best, and God will put the right people in your path.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Time
  • God

• The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Way
  • Exist
  • Prejudice

• Things can change only through strong personalities. I am not very good at supporting ignorance and mediocrity, so maybe this leads to arrogant gestures and arrogant responses. So, nobody's perfect.

  

  Edi Rama
  • Good
  • Strong
  • Change

• We pay for content that we like, and we like the content we pay for. It's a lot more satisfying to pay $7.50 for Steven Spielberg's next epic than it is to watch my home movies for free. Even for me.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Movie
  • Free
  • Pay

• Get a feedback loop and listen to it. … When people give you feedback, cherish it and use it.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People

• God made us: invented us as a man invents an engine. A car is made to run on petrol, and it would not run properly on anything else. Now God designed the human machine to run on Himself.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Car

• I was home alone watching George Bush speak on television. So it was just really the two of us. And as I listened to him, I realized, that one of us... was nuts! And for the first time ever, I went 'Wow, it's not me!'

  

  Lewis Black
  • Time
  • Home
  • Alone

• Call me curl-crazed, but there's just something about a head full of waves that can command any room and make any outfit more interesting.

  

  Elaine Welteroth
  • Interesting
  • Waves

• You stand out in the crowd only because you have these many, many carrying you on their shoulders.

  

  Desmond Tutu

• The chances of anyone of any race getting their own show are, like, .001 percent.

  

  Cristela Alonzo

• I wanted to know if the 'Iliad' in the original was as relevant and contemporary as it was in translation. I then started Latin. I had finally found something I enjoyed and was good at: dead languages!

  

  Caroline Lawrence
  • Good
  • Latin

• Scientists have established huge numbers of links between particular diseases and snippets of DNA, but in the great majority of cases, this has not yet been translated into treatments that can help cure patients. These treatments will come - tomorrow, or the day after.

  

  Charles C. Mann
  • Great
  • Help

• Something I realized when I moved to America: people get these general American accents, but when they get angry or upset or excited, their original accents come out. It's something I noticed with my manager, because he's from New York, and the first time he got angry, he suddenly had this accent.

  

  Margot Robbie
  • People
  • Time
  • American

• When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, 'Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping.'

  

  Fred Rogers
  • People
  • Mother
  • Boy

• Everyone has the opportunity to do a horror film. There's something great about it as an actor. You have to go to places you'd normally never go and be put in situations you would never be put into. You don't get the opportunity in a lot of films to have this kind of acting. It's an interesting challenge.

  

  Alexandra Daddario
  • Great
  • Opportunity
  • Interesting

• It's been a rollercoaster life but it hasn't been boring.

  

  Cynthia Payne
  • Life

• Throughout my career, when I have been rejected, there was sometimes subtext, and it was this: People will not read your work because these are not universal stories.

  

  Jesmyn Ward
  • People
  • Work
  • Career

• But by fighting the difficulties in which one finds oneself, an inner strength develops from within our heart, which improves in life's fight.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Heart
  • Fighting
  • Difficulty

• Sometimes when you've got too much money you lose your imagination.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • Money
  • You
  • Imagination

• Faith affects the whole of man's nature. It commences with the conviction of the mind based on adequate evidence; it continues in the confidence of the heart or emotions based on conviction, and it is crowned in the consent of the will by means of which the conviction and confidence are expressed in conduct.

  

  William Griffith Thomas
  • Heart
  • Mean
  • Emotion