Randy Alcorn Quotes
Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ or a place other than heaven, we become idolaters. According to Scripture, materialism is not only evil; it is tragic and pathetic.Randy Alcorn
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
Laura Lippman -
The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.
H. P. Lovecraft -
Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
Gal Gadot -
A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
Taraji P. Henson -
Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
Ian Thorpe
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
Zadie Smith -
In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
Pat Brown -
We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
Hanoi Hannah -
Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
Ragnar Frisch -
Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
Mae West -
I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
Cameron Dallas
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
Quavo Migos -
There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
Hari Kunzru -
You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
Aaron McGruder -
I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
Natasha Lyonne -
I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
Paris Hilton -
Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
Octavio Paz
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Football is big business - you can't get away from it. But you have to separate that side from the playing.
George Best -
If you think about it, you can have the best CGI, but you can always tell that it is CGI. Your brain can spot that is not real even though you think it looks cool. Your brain knows the truth, so you don't jump and you don't scream. It was very important for me to expose the audience to real elements.
Fede Alvarez -
As a system of philosophy it is not like the Tower of Babel, so daring its high aim as to seek a shelter against God's anger; but it is like a pyramid poised on its apex.
Adam Sedgwick -
Nothing else is required than to act toward God, in the midst of your occupations, as you do, even when busy, toward those who love you and whom you love.
Alphonsus Liguori -
God did not create evil. Just as darkness is the absence of light, evil is the absence of God.
Albert Einstein -
Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ or a place other than heaven, we become idolaters. According to Scripture, materialism is not only evil; it is tragic and pathetic.
Randy Alcorn