Elizabeth von Arnim Quotes
It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them.
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When my dad, Tommy Tucker Kelly, was about six, he started out with his dad on 'The Black and White Minstrel' Shows.
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If you are of the truth, if you have learned the truth, if you see the sanctity of the truth, then speak truth. We are not called to be deceivers or liars. God is a God of truth, and His people are called to have an enormously high standard of truth.
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Preachers must always fight the temptation to preach anything but Christ and Him crucified.
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I think it is not well known in the Church that payment of tithing has very little to do with money. Tithing has to do with faith.
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An intellectual mind that is unconnected to the heart is an uncultivated mind.
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You think the dead we loved truly ever leave us? You think that we don't recall them more clearly in times of great trouble?
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For every action there’s a reaction. And also, for every action there’s an equal and opposite criticism.
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I never feel more at home than at a ballgame.
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Cancer is always funny.
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All is flux, nothing is stationary.
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When we come to poetry, we can't fancy a more poverty stricken predicament.
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A custom-tailored suit retains a certain dignity about it.
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I know I got it made while the masses of black people are catchin' hell, but as long as they ain't free, I ain't free.
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Don't you know that silence supports the accuser's charge?
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Sometimes you just gotta trust that your secret's been kept long enough.
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Was it worth it? Feeling better for a minute or two, knowing that the cold would still be out there waiting?
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You will pass through storms and heavy rains, and at times you will suffer defeat. The essence of the creative life, however, is not to give up in the face of defeat but to follow the rainbow that exists within your heart.
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Men create the gods after their own images.
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Did the gods once mingle with humankind, or is Homer a visionary madman, or, what is worse, a mere poet, a maker-up of beautiful falsities, an elegant liar? I shall grapple with that perplexity, only to emerge as I went in, in a cloud of unknowing, if perhaps a little the wiser.
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It cannot be right to be the slave of one's household gods, and I protest that if my furniture ever annoyed me by wanting to be dusted when I wanted to be doing something else, and there was no one to do the dusting for me, I would cast it all into the nearest bonfire and sit and warm my toes at the flames with great contentment, triumphantly selling my dusters to the very next pedlar who was weak enough to buy them.
