George Wigram Quotes

Christ cannot light a single spark in the heart of an individual, without that little tiny spark being for God. He gives the light, and has ordained that every ray of it is to reflect something for God.

George Wigram

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• Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • War
  • Peace
  • Winning

• We all have original ideas. Even if we don't see ourselves as supercreative or as wild nonconformists, we have insights every day about how the world around us could be better. It might be a better way of running meetings in your office that would be less mind-numbing. It might be a little twist on a product or a service.

  

  Adam Grant
  • World
  • Mind
  • Running

• Anything's possible. If I turn round tomorrow and say I want to be a spaceman, I could do that. You can do whatever you want to do.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Want
  • Tomorrow
  • Possible

• Perhaps too much of everything is as bad as too little.

  

  Edna Ferber
  • Bad
  • Wisdom
  • Too Much

• Advice is sometimes transmitted more successfully through a joke than grave teaching.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Sometimes
  • Teacher
  • Advice

• Give thyself time to learn something new and good, and cease to be whirled around.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Time
  • Good

• Acceptance is right. Kindness is right. Love is right. I pray, right now, that we're moving into a kinder time when prejudice is overcome by understanding; when narrow-mindedness, and narrow-minded bigotry is overwhelmed by open-hearted empathy; when the pain of judgmentalism is replaced by the purity of love.

  

  Janet Jackson
  • Time
  • Pain
  • Moving

• The Smashing Pumpkins was never meant to be a small band. It was going to either be a big band, or a no band.

  

  Billy Corgan The Smashing Pumpkins
  • Small
  • Band

• I'm quite happy being myself. I'm a big fan of Jessica Lange and Jeanne Moreau, but I don't want to be anyone else.

  

  Jacqueline Bisset
  • Happy

• Pluto's orbit is so elongated that it crosses the orbit of another planet. Now that's... you've got no business doing that if you want to call yourself a planet. Come on, now! There's something especially transgressive about that.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Business

• Atrazine - a herbicide often used on corn fields, golf courses and even lawns - has become one of the most common contaminants in American drinking water.

  

  Charles Duhigg
  • American
  • Water
  • Golf

• First I went to the Sorbonne to do my licence en lettres, but I also started to study law.

  

  Claude Chabrol
  • Law
  • Study

• Please don't retouch my wrinkles. It took me so long to earn them.

  

  Anna Magnani
  • Long

• I have this tremendous energy. I just loved and love life. I love it today. I never want to die.

  

  Jayne Meadows
  • Life
  • Today
  • Energy

• If the universe sprung into existence and then expanded exponentially, you get gravitational waves traveling through space-time. These would fill the universe, a pattern of echoes of the inflation itself.

  

  Neil Turok
  • Time
  • Space
  • Universe

• I don't pick up my work at all. If it's something that's still in progress and I have the chance to make some edits on the material or think about the order, little things like that, I'll keep those stories at hand and go through them. But once it exists as the book, it's locked away in a vault, and I kind of put it behind me.

  

  Adrian Tomine
  • Up
  • Work
  • Book

• What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even if it is ugly and grotesque.

  

  Corin Nemec
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Nature

• He's only 4 years old, so I don't think he realized, you know, that I played so many years. Of course, we watch tapes here from the Stanley Cup years, but I don't think he realized how many years I played.

  

  Mario Lemieux

• I love to compete. To me, business is the ultimate sport. It's always on. There is always someone trying to beat me.

  

  Mark Cuban
  • Trying
  • Business

• I used to walk in a bookstore and see all these books on the walls. And I would say, 'Who wants to hear from me? What do I have to add to all of this?'

  

  John Grisham

• A liberal pretending to be a conservative? That's like a straight person pretending to be gay to get greater acceptance.

  

  David Mamet
  • Gay
  • Acceptance

• A woman of the world is anxious to exhibit her form and shape, whether walking, standing, sitting, or sleeping. Even when represented as a picture, she desires to captivate with the charms of her beauty and, thus, to rob men of their steadfast heart.

  

  Buddha
  • World
  • Men
  • Heart

• Let no person think lightly of good, saying in his or her heart, "it will not benefit me." As by the falling of raindrops a jar of water is filled, so the wise person becomes full of good, even though he or she collects it little by little.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Heart
  • Raindrops
  • Collects

• Christ cannot light a single spark in the heart of an individual, without that little tiny spark being for God. He gives the light, and has ordained that every ray of it is to reflect something for God.

  

  George Wigram
  • Heart
  • Giving
  • Light