William George Jordan Quotes
Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character,—but she always pays.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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It is only the forcible propagation of conventional Christianity that makes the agnostic so bitter toward the church. He knows that all the doctrines cannot possibly be true, but he would view them with toleration if he were asked merely to let them alone for the benefit of the masses whom they can help and succour.
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The best song is what resonates with that one person the most. It's why, if you ask a million people on the face of the Earth, they're all gonna have different favorite songs, their own best song ever, because that's the one that touched them the most.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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I want to work with intelligent people and look for scripts that I think are intelligent and surprising.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
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The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
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Broadening and deepening the relationship with our users and advertisers have always been our strategic priority.
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There is nothing charming about a woman who cannot walk in her shoes.
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When you don't have any money, the problem is food. When you have money, it's sex. When you have both it's health, you worry about getting rupture or something. If everything is simply jake then you're frightened of death.
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I lied to everybody. I lie very well, being an actress, naturally.
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In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.
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I think Joan's advice would be: always know more than anyone else, always be discreet as possible. And never cry at work.
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Depeche Mode have never got over their teenage awkwardness with each other. We're still like that. Mates but not mates. That awkwardness is there, only now we have families and kids.
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Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.
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To be a good actor, you have to be very smart. But to be a great actor, you also have to have a streak of, 'I'm an idiot, a complete lunatic.'
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Yes, it's absolutely true that anything worth doing is worth doing poorly - until you can learn to do it well.
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My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.
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I built a company, a team, and a brand that started right here. It was an American success story, and it started right here in Arizona.
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Plants grow most in the darkest hours preceding dawn; so do human souls. Nature always pays for a brave fight. Sometimes she pays in strengthened moral muscle, sometimes in deepened spiritual insight, sometimes in a broadening, mellowing, sweetening of the fibres of character,—but she always pays.
