Alphonsus Liguori Quotes
The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
Quotes to Explore
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We need a community of nations capable of space flight because we all have to be off this planet sometime in the future. Our sun is going to burn out eventually, and we are not in a sustainable situation.
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Africa has no future.
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FOR a long time the conviction has been dimly felt in the community that, without prejudice to existing institutions, the legal day of weekly rest might be employed to advantage for purposes affecting the general good.
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Sometimes, just the act of venting is helpful. Counseling provides a safe haven for precisely that kind of free-ranging release: You can say things in the therapist's office, with the therapist present, that would be incendiary or hurtful in your living room.
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The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.
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Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.
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No one who is in this world will deny that evils exist. What, then, do we say? That evil is not a living and animated substance, but a condition of the soul which is opposed to virtue and which springs up In the slothful because of their falling away from good.
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Good comics gravitate to each other; you know who's your type of person by watching them onstage, hopefully.
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The future is no more uncertain than the present.
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I think I've always had a 40-year-old body, and now that I'm actually there I'm like, 'Hey, pretty good, huh?'
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I have never been worried about the future. I will always be able to drive my own feet.
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Those few people who do respond to the dire conditions of the future - journalists, environmentalists, behavioral scientists - tend not to be powerful.
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Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.
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Sport's always a good thing - it's healthy, and it takes your mind off other things.
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If you really think that ambition, power, lust, desire are not as applicable in the media as in politics or on Wall Street or anywhere else, you're deluding yourself.
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The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard.
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When we live the 21st-century good life, almost every aspect of it is predicated on not looking at the implications of what we're up to. Happiness at this point has a lot to do with not looking, so you don't feel complicit in some vast and awful enterprise.
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I put a lot of pressure on myself. I think something's not good enough, and I won't stop until I feel like I've made it. I'm never satisfied.
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There was never a good biography of a good novelist. There couldn't be. He is too many people if he's any good.
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Power comes and goes. It can vanish in the twinkling of an eye, like smoke dissolving in the air.
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What's my motto when it comes to money? Don't put so much emphasis on it!
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The 1st Congressional District contains almost half of the biotech and biomedical companies in Washington, and my job often allows me to meet the people responsible for this exciting research.
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When I was little, my mom would dress me up and take me downtown on the Carondelet bus, which in itself was exciting. We would go to see Santa Claus at Famous-Barr. The decorations were so pretty. The line was long, but that just gave me more time to enjoy Santa's Toyland. I loved every minute of it.
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The past is no longer yours; the future is not yet in your power. You have only the present wherein to do good.
