Bonar Law Quotes
We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets.Bonar Law
Quotes to Explore
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A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.
Abba Eban -
The power of a sports team in a community it's almost indescribable.
Wendell Pierce -
I tried to play rugby but was never very good.
Ralph Fiennes -
If you want to grow a beard like mine, the only thing I can tell you is that you have to have patience. You just have to let it grow.
Daniel Bryan -
The current approach that psychiatry takes almost ignores social worlds in which mental health problems arise and tries to become highly biomedical like other branches of medicine such as cardiology or oncology. But psychiatry has to be far more embedded in people's personal and social worlds.
Vikram Patel -
'The Old Social Classes and the Revolutionary Movement in Iraq,' by Hanna Batatu. Few may wish to take on this massive, obscure work, but it changed my life, and I love it.
Adam Davidson
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This applies to many film jobs, not just editing: half the job is doing the job, and the other half is finding ways to get along with people and tuning yourself in to the delicacy of the situation.
Walter Murch -
Every glass thermometer has subtle variations in the size and shape of the bulb at the bottom and the capillary tube inside, as well as variations in the width of gradations on the side. The compounded effect of these uncertainties is that each thermometer reads temperature slightly differently.
Sam Kean -
I've never been against women. That anti-feminist rap is bogus. I think men should be nice to women, buy them diamonds.
Sam Kinison -
We're sad about some of the losses of members of great seniority and distinction in the Congress, and some very new members, who will no longer be serving with us.
Nancy Pelosi -
I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
Eddie Albert -
Death is only a larger kind of going abroad.
Samuel Butler
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
Oscar Wilde -
When President Obama entered the White House, the economy was in a free-fall. The auto industry: on its back. The banks: frozen up. More than three million Americans had already lost their jobs. And America's bravest, our men and women in uniform, were fighting what would soon be the longest wars in our history.
Rahm Emanuel -
I guess I'm attracted to people who are singing about love or life, and they have a particular passion that I can connect with.
Langhorne Slim -
I am in love with stories of underdogs.
Ali Fazal -
To be honest, I don't know how comedy works.
Bill Hader -
It's good to feel stupid sometimes and do things that are out of your comfort zone.
Mary-Louise Parker
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Power is the agency to effect change, pure and simple. The more power you have, the clearer and less frictional the trajectory from an idea in your mind to its birth in real life.
Caroline Ghosn -
The keystone of successful business is cooperation. Friction retards progress.
James Cash Penney -
Deathstroke,' in my view, is a family drama. It's like the 'Sopranos' with super villains.
Christopher Priest -
More than the Grave is closed to me -The Grave and that EternityTo which the Grave adheres -I cling to nowhere till I fall -The Crash of nothing, yet of all -How similar appears -
Emily Dickinson -
There's nothing more dangerous than a resourceful idiot.
Scott Adams -
We have not been men of prayer. The spirit of prayer has slumbered among us. The closet has been too little frequented and delighted in. We have allowed business, study or active labor to interfere with our closet-hours. And the feverish atmosphere in which both the church and the nation are enveloped has found its way into our prayer closets.
Bonar Law