William Arnot Quotes

The difference between an unconverted and a converted man is not that the one has sins and the other has none; but that the one takes part with his cherished sins against a dreaded God and the other takes part with a reconciled God against his hated sins.

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• I know politics and politicians are hated, but I still believe in goodness of a heart that has selfless intentions. With the grace of God, I will make a difference.

  

  Rajyavardhan Singh Rathore
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• I listen to music constantly while writing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
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• In this situation I was constantly exposed to danger and death.

  

  Daniel Boone
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• It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.

  

  Walter O'Brien
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• Variety shows didn't disappear; it was the caliber of the artists, the classic vaudevillians that have passed on. They are gone, so there's a different caliber performer that's come along that hasn't had the time to work in the small clubs and get the experience.

  

  Flip Wilson
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• Only bad writers think they're good.

  

  Harlan Coben
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• Political rhetoric leads only to confusion.

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• You make me feel like a natural man

  

  Carole King
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• So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister’s Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What’s wrong with me?

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Failure
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• In general, generalization is to lie, to tell lies.

  

  B.S. Johnson
  • Lies
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• If we stop thinking of the poor as victims or as a burden and start recognizing them as resilient and creative entrepreneurs and value conscious consumers, a whole new world of opportunity will open up.

  

  C. K. Prahalad
  • Up
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• She kept asking herself whether, if he had looked cleaner, she might have been more concerned; whether, on some subliminal level, she had confused his obvious signs of neglect with street-smartness, toughness and resilience.

  

  Joanne Rowling
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• When you don't work together you can't emerge as a force. It becomes what some call a "lonely struggle" and individual self-destruction.

  

  Haile Gerima
  • Work
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• Santa Barbara people are conservative-not like in L.A., where everybody wears rhinestones on their glasses to show that they own an airplane factory.

  

  S. J. Perelman
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• The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.

  

  David Deida
  • Men
  • Challenge
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• What the warrior renounces is anything in his experience that is a barrier between himself and others. In other words, renunciation is making yourself more available, more gentle and open to others.

  

  Chogyam Trungpa
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• With thought, patience, and discrimination, book passion becomes the signature of a person's character.

  

  Nicholas A. Basbanes
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• We must not only learn to tolerate our differences. We must welcome them as the richness and diversity which can lead to true intelligence.

  

  Albert Einstein
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  • Learn
  • Differences

• I didn't want to say "No" because I didn't want people to think I'm not nice. And that, to me, has been the greatest lesson of my life: to recognize that I am solely responsible for it, and not trying to please other people, and not living my life to please other people, but doing what my heart says all the time.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
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• I think I’d felt that as long as I avoided looking for the tickets, they would be there; it was only if I searched the archive that they’d disappear, as if the past were up until that point indeterminate, that I might outrun it. Do you know what I mean? We had to pay a lot of money to get the tickets for the next day; luckily they still had seats, although I suppose there are usually seats to and from Kansas City. It was kind of like that, recovering the memory of what my father had done. The knowledge was always there, I carried it in my body, but I didn’t know what I knew, although I knew I knew something and that I dreaded knowing it fully, dreaded it as if only coming into the knowledge, into the memory, would make the event that I was repressing real.

  

  Ben Lerner
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  • Knowledge

• The difference between an unconverted and a converted man is not that the one has sins and the other has none; but that the one takes part with his cherished sins against a dreaded God and the other takes part with a reconciled God against his hated sins.

  

  William Arnot
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