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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My first book was poetry, but I didn't write it first. I wrote it third. So my first two books were prose.
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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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Suffrage is a common right of citizenship. Women have the right of suffrage. Logically it cannot be escaped.
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
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If the U.N. didn't exist, we'd be inventing it right now.
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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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In Japan, people don't really sing about sexual content.
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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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My parents were very pleased that I was in the army. The fact that I hated it somehow pleased them even more.
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I don't want to be in 'Expendables 5.' You can keep those kind of movies.
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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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As far as looking at myself on screen, I tend to pick out every single flaw that I could have or should have done better. I'm more of a cringer at first and when it is years down the road and out of my way, I can actually appreciate it somehow.
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I think self-destructiveness is given a really bad rap. I think it can also mean self-reflection and poetic sensiblity. It can mean empathy, hedonism, a libertarianism.
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To think justly, we must understand what others mean. To know the value of our thoughts, we must try their effect on other minds.
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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.
