Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes
Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.
Quotes to Explore
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I always played to win.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
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Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
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Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
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I'm a human being. I'm not dumping on what I've done. I mean I know we were doing social (stuff), all right? I just don't like boastin' about it, OK? I know what we were doin'. I know damn well what we did. But I ain't gonna start crying about it now, all right?
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Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.
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For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.
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I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.
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I took a job as a reporter in India, where I lived with several married couples, which got me interested in why some marriages work and others fail. Back home, many women of my generation were also putting off marriage or not getting married at all, which only led me to more questions.
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If I hadn't gone to dancing school, I would have married and had children like my mum and had a normal life.
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Contentment lay in the place they had made for each other and for the children.
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Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.
