Elizabeth of the Trinity Quotes
For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.
Quotes to Explore
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I love the song 'Into the Night.' It's Roy Orbison meets David Lynch meets Iggy Pop on amphetamines. It has a punk edge that is not HIM, per se. It is super melodic and super '60s, and that is very new to me and it is a sense of achievement to me.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.
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When I heard Puerto Ricans in New York City, it sounded very strange. And the first time I heard someone from Spain, I thought they had a speech impediment!
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I enjoy the burger joint the same way I enjoy fancy meals.
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Hitler is lonely. So is God. Hitler is like God.
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Men think for themselves when they’re men.
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Can't get up in the morning lately and I'm just sunk in a dream I'm always the ship in the stream
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Much of good science - and perhaps all of great science - has its roots in fantasy.
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It matters not its history; love has wingsLike lightning , swift and fatal, and it springsLike a wild flower where it is least expected,Existing whether cherish'd or rejected;
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No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices.
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Drinking wine and wearing trousers were nothing compared to reading the history of ideas.
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My great grandfather had been the neighbourhood 'horse whisperer,' so I've probably loved horses since I was an embryo. Whenever I watched cowboy films as a small child, I wasn't watching the hunky cowboys - which I'd probably do now - I was watching the horses. Even now, I love sitting in the field just watching the way they move.
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I'm always looking to rock out. But it isn't really about rocking out versus being mellow, in terms of your personal satisfaction. In the end, you just want to be good. When you look at something that's really good, it might be Iggy Pop or it might be Leonard Cohen. Whatever it is, you want it to be really good.
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Cinema has opened a world of possibilities up for me.
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It kind of went from coming back into my apartment in New York and finding boxes of pictures of myself with Lucifer written all over them, and a guy who wanted to cut me up and eat me, to an Italian just recently who dreamt that I wanted to marry him.
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Self pity is of the devil, and if I wallow in it, I cannot be used by God for his purpose in the world.
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For my heart is always with Him, day and night it thinks unceasingly of its heavenly and divine Friend, to whom it wants to prove its affection. Also within it arises this desire: not to die, but to suffer long, to suffer for God, to give Him its life while praying for poor sinners.
