Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes
Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.
Quotes to Explore
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Man was created to praise, reverence, and serve God our Lord and in this way to save his soul. The other things on Earth were created for man's use, to help him reach the end for which he was created.
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Only let it be in the name of Jesus Christ, that I may suffer together with Him! I endure everything because He Himself, Who is perfect man, empowers me.
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Between Prince and my dad's fusion-jazz records, I didn't have a choice in being funky.
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If I sit down with an electric guitar, what's going to come out are Sabbath/Zeppelin type riffs, but if I'm sitting behind a piano late at night, I might write something like 'Desperado.' You're not going to write 'Desperado' between a wall of Marshalls and thumping, crushing volume.
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One of the main lessons I have learned the last five years as Secretary-General is that the United Nations cannot function properly without the support of the business community and civil society. We need to have tripartite support - the governments, the business communities and the civil society.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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I've always wanted to take up work that my heart is convinced about. And I shall continue to do so.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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There are some musicians who are talented and see themselves as some kind of natural geniuses or something because of a certain amount of natural ability. But that is often rarely the case over the long term.
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Similarly you can make a transition from one set of instruments to another imperceptibly.
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I think I have the best job in the world. Seventy-one percent of the planet is covered by water, we've explored less than five percent of the ocean, and there are so many fabulous discoveries that have yet to be made.
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I start my day with granola, fresh fruit, and skim milk and end it with something healthy that also comes from my own kitchen.
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
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If you want to be a different fish, jump out of school.
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There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.
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Somewhere in the depths of my soul is the connection my father had with his cattle, the hills of Khalavha, and his people.
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It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.
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Literary life used to be quite different in Britain in the years I lived there, from 1971 to 1989, because money was not a factor - no one made very much except from U.S. sales and the occasional windfall.
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When I became CEO, I was really worried that we were in commoditized segments that were mature and no longer growing. So we made a radical pivot into health technology because that is one of the world's unmet needs.
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I do not innovate. I transmit.
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If a man can't manage his own life, he can't manage a business.
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High school dropout rates nationally - Not enough is being done on this issue.
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People who don't drink are afraid of revealing themselves.
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Much of my experience of life has cost me a great price and I wish to use it for strengthening and comforting other souls.
