Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes
...if I had been told what I was to learn through these protracted sufferings, I am afraid I should have shrunk back in terror and so have lost all the sweet lessons God proposed to teach me. As it is, He has led me on, step by step, answering my prayers in His own way; and I cannot bear to have a single human being doubt that it has been a perfect way. I love and adore it just as it is.Elizabeth Prentiss
Quotes to Explore
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I think we should be encouraged to learn from Columbine and let it be a battle cry for all of us.
Foster Friess -
Learn from your dreams what you lack.
W. H. Auden -
I'm trying to learn to smoke, which is rather weird when everyone is trying to stop. I'm not a smoker. But my character only smokes as an affectation.
Francesca Annis -
Writing is an exploration. You start from nothing and learn as you go.
E. L. Doctorow -
On the streets, hanging out with the fellows, there are things you learn that no book can teach you.
Ramon Rodriguez -
If you and I had a relationship, and I like to dance and you don't, will that affect our relationship? If I push you and push you, maybe you'll learn to dance, but more likely, that will move you away from me.
Randa Haines
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Men have to descend from their pedestal and learn how to be more broadminded and spiritual.
Indra Devi -
I want simply to learn about the world and live freely.
Laura Dekker -
Once you learn to quit, it becomes a habit.
Vince Lombardi -
Learn to say no in situations where saying no can be difficult, where it could mean getting fired. Say no anyway, because it could lead you to greater opportunities.
Samuel Dash -
In a world in which the total of human knowledge is doubling about every ten years, our security can rest only on our ability to learn.
Nathaniel Branden -
Know the business, learn the business, own something.
Isaac Hayes
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We have to learn again that science without contact with experiments is an enterprise which is likely to go completely astray into imaginary conjecture.
Hannes Alfven -
I stay around the young boys in the studio; I want to learn from them, and at the same time, I have a lot to offer them.
Fat Joe -
War is a beastly business, it is true, but one proof we are human is our ability to learn, even from it, how better to exist.
M. F. K. Fisher -
To wait is not to sit with folded hands, but to learn to do what we are told.
Oswald Chambers -
I'm kind of appalled that so many things keep recycling that should have been learned long ago.
B. R. Hayden -
One of the biggest lessons I've learned recently is that when you don't know what to do, you should do nothing until you figure out what to do because a lot of times you feel like you are pressed against the wall, and you've got to make a decision. You never have to do anything. Don't know what to do? Do nothing.
Oprah Winfrey
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Our notions of what a human being is problematically depend on there being two coherent genders. And if someone doesn't comply with either the masculine norm or the feminine norm, their very humaness is called into question.
Judith Butler -
Sleep every chance you get. Eat every chance you get. Those were two of the many lessons that Kat learned at her father’s knee and her uncle’s table.
Ally Carter -
I love films that show people in a way that's so real it's almost unsettling, and that's what really inspires me because I write about people. I write about people that I know, so I want to portray them and portray myself in a way that is unapologetic.
Halsey -
And there will be a time, not for long, a month is enough, or a week, when every single person will be able to completely fulfill what they were meant to be—everything their bodies and souls have offered them, not what other people have dumped on them.
David Grossman -
When you have faults, do not fear to abandon them.
Confucius -
...if I had been told what I was to learn through these protracted sufferings, I am afraid I should have shrunk back in terror and so have lost all the sweet lessons God proposed to teach me. As it is, He has led me on, step by step, answering my prayers in His own way; and I cannot bear to have a single human being doubt that it has been a perfect way. I love and adore it just as it is.
Elizabeth Prentiss