George Hodges Quotes
God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience...whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed...It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.
Quotes to Explore
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Most people who went about saying a ghost had poked them with a brolly would be locked up somewhere.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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My father was interested in bringing reggae music to the entire world.
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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If I ever get looks on the street, which, for the record, is almost never, it's rarely because they think I'm someone they saw in a movie. More often someone sees me and thinks, 'Hey, was that guy my waiter the other night?'
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All the men in my family were bearded, and most of the women.
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I don't want to pretend I'm any cooler or smarter than I am.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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I am the owner of my shoulders, the tenant of my hips.
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If a female employee is offended, a boss would like her to tell him, not sue him.
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That night we visited various places where well-shaped and scented, though completely naked, Japanese girls came to sit on male knees.
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Science has an important part to play in our everyday existence, and there is far too much neglect of science; but its intention is to supplement not to supplant the familiar outlook.
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Going to school at home saved my life as far as education went. My parents were able to give me the attention I needed.
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Il n'y a pas une idée qui ne porte en elle sa réfutation possible, un mot, le mot contraire.
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Most days I struggle just to be accepted into the camp of plain old feminists. This is mainly because I am not by nature ideological and generally suspicious of people who are.
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When I lose my larger sense of supporting people to be their best, I lessen my contact with the God inside me.
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After all, the living book of God's creation lies open for all to see; it points constantly to the divine calling for which we were placed in nature. Nature is a continual admonition to us, for nowhere has God's creation departed so far from its origin and primeval purpose as in the human race.
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God calls us to duty, and the only right answer is obedience...whether we ourselves get enjoyment and blessing from the task or not, the call must be obeyed...It is better to obey blunderingly than not to obey at all.
