Gerhard Tersteegen Quotes
Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the little flowers, in the serene summer days; they quietly open their petals, and the sun shines into them with its gentle influences. So I will do for you, if you will yield yourself to me.Gerhard Tersteegen
Quotes to Explore
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I think India is very passionate about films. It's almost a second religion back home. Due to that, I think film stars are - are really held in great esteem. Not that we're complaining, but I think with that comes a lot of responsibility.
Abhishek Bachchan -
A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.
J. Philippe Rushton -
Just look at what is right in front of you. People don't do that. They see what they expect to see, what they want to see, what conventional wisdom tells them to see. They only hear the music and not the lyrics of human events.
Vincent Bugliosi -
I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
Taylor Sheridan -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
Magnus Carlsen
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If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.
Gary Shteyngart -
Generally, you are held to a sound and that becomes your sound. That gets branded as your sound, and all the copycats start with it because the labels are looking for that sound.
Randy Bachman The Guess Who -
Sometimes I'll have an idea for a story or have a subject, and that will inspire lyrics, but most of the time, hopefully, they already exist somewhere else.
Beck -
Men! The only animal in the world to fear.
D. H. Lawrence -
What we call a poem is mostly what is not there on the page. The strength of any poem is the poems that it has managed to exclude.
Harold Bloom -
I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
Vin Scully
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Try to keep your soul always in peace and quiet, always ready for whatever our Lord may wish to work in you. It is certainly a higher virtue of the soul, and a greater grace, to be able to enjoy the Lord in different times and different places than in only one.
Saint Ignatius -
When you start to prioritize hiring likable people within your organization, these likable people will attract other likable people.
Karen Salmansohn -
I live and die by puns.
Feist -
Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
Joanne Rowling -
To me, it is one world, and the non-human animals bear the brunt of oppression and suffering.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I'm a New Wave baby, so I got very stimulated by foreign film.
Jack Nicholson
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Sweden was very nice. I did a lot of television. I wrote, directed and was in a lot of television there.
Lee Hazlewood -
I've struggled with depression before. For me, music was always a very positive way to will myself out of that situation.
Washed Out -
Well I think it has always been a mistake to reduce the peace process in Ireland to a decommissioning process.
Martin McGuinness -
I'm here to fight; I'm not here to protect whether you think I'm a good person or not. I've given up on that.
Jon Jones -
Your own self-will and anxiety, your hurry and labor, disturb your peace and prevent Me from working in you. Look at the little flowers, in the serene summer days; they quietly open their petals, and the sun shines into them with its gentle influences. So I will do for you, if you will yield yourself to me.
Gerhard Tersteegen