David Macbeth Moir Quotes
Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity,-- Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on through life with steps aright.
Quotes to Explore
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If small things have the power to disturb you, then who you think you are is exactly that: small.
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Having grown up on a family farm, I am all too familiar with the effects a drought can have on a crop.
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I'm from the gulf coast of Louisiana.
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There are 3.5 million Americans in Puerto Rico. So, just like we're quick to go everywhere else and help, we expect that same of America for Puerto Rico. These are U.S. citizens!
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There's no glory and no respect in making fun of the weak, the powerless.
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Our actions are the ground we walk on.
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The act is truth. Nothing that was ever recorded is truth. Nothing that was ever said is truth. Only the act.
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India is the Saudi Arabia of human resources for the 21st century. The power that we used to get from oil in 20th century, we will get it from people like you in 21st century.
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'That’s me,' he said, motioning to the robot. 'That’s all of us. We prattle about free will, but we’re nothing but response...mechanical reaction in prescribed grooves.'
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Here I still flow in God as a small stream of time, There I shall be a sea of blessedness sublime
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There never has been security. No man has ever known what he would meet around the next corner; if life were predictable it would cease to be life, and be without flavor.
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Those who are wise won't be busy, and those who are too busy can't be wise.
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Our obligation is to refuse to let bad win, to refuse to let evil hold the field.
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So there's a lot of people tied into believing that the traditional response to the authorship question. In terms of actors, some people get very angry about it.
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I'm not auditioning to play convenience-store clerks. I don't see any benefit in that.
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I obviously love 'The Grey'; that was a pleasure to make. It was also very difficult. Listen, I love 'Smokin' Aces.' That was a lot of fun to make. Completely different part of your brain, I guess. Some would argue the part that they don't want you to use.
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I loved the Oscars, and I had V.H.S. tapes for the Oscars, and I used to watch them over and over. There was probably one year where I watched it, like, 20 times or something.
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The biggest problem is integrating people from countries with Islamic agrarian cultures. They don't share with us the core values of modernity and think quite differently about relationships between women and men and individual responsibility.
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We all long for Eden, and we are constantly glimpsing it: our whole nature at its best and least corrupted, its gentlest and most human, is still soaked with the sense of exile.
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Caregiving requires the intention of love, caretaking requires the intention of fear. Not acting in anger when you are angry requires the intention of love.
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Quick now, here, now, always- A condition of complete simplicity (Costing not less than everything) And all shall be well and All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one.
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In the cabaret of globalization, the state shows itself as a table dancer that strips off everything until it is left with only the minimum indispensable garments: the repressive force.
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Rose of the desert! thou art to me An emblem of stainless purity,-- Of those who, keeping their garments white, Walk on through life with steps aright.
