Elizabeth Jane Howard Quotes
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Yeah, it is, because it's a real discovery of your inner resources, you know. That's what my character is all about and what my playing is all about. But to get up there and just go inside and draw out something that makes you feel good first and foremost.
Eric Clapton
Blind Faith
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I now make it my earnest prayer that God would have you and the State over which you preside in His holy protection; that He would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacific temper of mind which were the characteristics of the Divine Author of our blessed religion, without an humble imitation of whose example in these things, we can never hope to be a happy nation.
George Washington
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Benedick looked to the ceiling as though begging for divine patience. Or for the Lord to strike his sister down. Callie couldn’t quite discern which.
Sarah MacLean
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We share a lot in common, attitude wise.
Alex Riley
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Later orthodox theologians would have found this view completely inadequate. In stressing that the Father was “greater” than the Son, Tertullian articulated a view that would later be deemed a heresy. Theology, in these early years of the formation of Christian doctrine, could not stand still. It progressed and got more complicated, sophisticated, and refined as time went on.
Bart Ehrman
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I always tell people you can take the thugest thug in the world, and if you put a suit on him, he'll act different, trust me.
Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
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As long as we are being remembered, we remain alive
Carlo D'Este
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When you decide something's right, there's nothing that can stop you from doing it.
Caragh M. O'Brien
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Every good thing that's ever happened in my career, I have Emmylou Harris and Steve Earle to thank for,
Buddy Miller
Band of Joy
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If death itself were to die, would it have a ghost, and would the ghost of death visit the dead in the guise of someone alive, if only to fright them from any temptation to return?
William H. Gass
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I am always suspicious of the formulation that "politics" has prevented a great idea from being enacted by government. Politics IS government, in a democratic society. It's a challenge for school reformers, like reformers in any realm, to build a popular constituency for their work. If the people it's supposed to benefit vote against it, that tells me that the person pushing reform lacks political skill. And political skill is a good thing.
Nicholas Lemann
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The challenge of work-life balance is without question one of the most significant struggles faced by modern man.
Stephen Covey
