Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward Quotes
Next to the love between man and his Creator, The love of one man and one woman, Is the loftiest and the most illusive ideal, That has been set before the world. A perfect marriage is like a pure heart: Those who have it are fit to see God.
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The battlefield is a scene of constant chaos. The winner will be the one who controls that chaos, both his own and the enemies.
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As the anti-slavery community, we must together ensure that this attention is transferred into concrete action and results.
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Reverence is fatal to literature.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Part of the reason I sort of shot out like a cannon out of Michigan and left home at such an early age is because I had to feel independent.
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It's a constant challenge trying to find balance between styling, designing and being a mom.
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I think people I'm close to find it absolutely crazy that I'm famous.
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Everything is complicated; if that were not so, life and poetry and everything else would be a bore.
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I am getting to the point where the only love worth being in is the love worth singing about.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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My husband is a fall-away Catholic, but with a vengeance. He's actually more of a feminist than I am.
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New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements... the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture.
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Well - I was brought up as a Southern Baptist.
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I know I always had a lot of energy growing up and I had to put it somewhere. Theater allowed me to really feel things, to laugh, to cry, to explode outward. I could do anything and it was totally accepted and appreciated. If I hadn't gone into the theater, I probably would have been a psychotic killer.
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One of the reasons people hate politics is that truth is rarely a politician's objective. Election and power are.
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I like the timeframe involved in being an actor.
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Let's say you need a perfectly obedient servant who never gets tired, never needs to be paid, and is virtually indestructible. If you're in a galaxy a long time ago and far, far away, you'll just fly off to the local droid auction and pick up one of those shiny gold models with lovely manners.
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A healthy vision of the future is not possible without an accurate knowledge of the past.
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America is not doctrinaire. It's hard for an American politician to come up with an ideological position that is permanently unforgivable.
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I missed the Olympic team in 1996 - missed making the team. I tried to make a comeback in my sport, and soon after the Olympic trials, Johann Olav Koss, who is a Norwegian speed-skater, called me up and asked me to be a part of Olympic Aid. Now Olympic Aid is Right to Play. It's a wonderful, narrow focus.
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You see people in Hollywood trying to make blockbuster after blockbuster, but it's not possible. There's some god up there saying, 'You will fail now.' But I suppose that's true of us all.
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You and I are created for transcendence, laughter, caring. God deliberately did not make the world perfect, for God is looking for you and me to be fellow workers with God.
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Only divine love bestows the keys of knowledge.
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Next to the love between man and his Creator, The love of one man and one woman, Is the loftiest and the most illusive ideal, That has been set before the world. A perfect marriage is like a pure heart: Those who have it are fit to see God.
