Alphonsus Liguori Quotes
Prayer must be humble: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Here St. James tells us that God does not listen to the prayers of the proud, but resists them; while, on the other hand, he is always ready to hear the prayers of the humble.Alphonsus Liguori
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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My grandmother was the greatest cook in the world. She could just go in there, the whole kitchen would look like a tornado hit it and then she'd come out with the best food. Then she'd sit at the table and she wouldn't eat!
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I just butcher a book. Everything I underline I assume is important to me.
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You have to take criticism with a grain of salt because you're never going to please everybody.
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If people don't get paid for their inventions, that's not a good thing. In the case of many patents, there are people who aren't in a position to take them to the next level. If you don't enforce your rights, no one is going to enforce them for you.
Nathan Myhrvold
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
Hannah Murray -
Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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Withholding information that would get innocent people killed was the right thing to do, not a journalistic sin.
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The only way to find peace is when you are not separated, when you are not fighting, when you part of the whole.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
Taraji P. Henson
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The infinitely smallest part of space is always a space, something endowed with continuity, not at all a mere point or the boundary between specified places in space.
Johann Gottlieb Fichte -
People think that the politician is just part of a system, and whether they're lying or not doesn't matter.
Zephyr Teachout -
I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism.
Chloe Sevigny -
People always think that happiness is a faraway thing … something complicated and hard to get. Yet, what little things can make it up.
Betty Smith -
Prayer must be humble: God resists the proud, but gives grace to the humble. Here St. James tells us that God does not listen to the prayers of the proud, but resists them; while, on the other hand, he is always ready to hear the prayers of the humble.
Alphonsus Liguori