Lois McMaster Quotes

This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

Lois McMaster

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• Scientists have proven that it's impossible to long-jump 30 feet, but I don't listen to that kind of talk. Thoughts like that have a way of sinking into your feet.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Long
  • Thoughts
  • Impossible

• I will reveal the secrets behind these doors.

  

  Zahi Hawass
  • Will
  • Doors
  • Secrets

• To the extent that philosophical positions both confuse us and close doors to further inquiry, they are likely to be wrong.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Wrong
  • Doors
  • Philosophical

• The limitless loving devotion to God, and the gift God makes of Himself to you, are the highest elevation of which the heart is capable; it is the highest degree of prayer. The souls that have reached this point are truly the heart of the Church.

  

  Edith Stein
  • God
  • Heart
  • Church

• In the procession I should feel the crushing feet, the clashing discords, the ruthless hands and stifling breath. I could not hear the rhythm of the march.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Hands
  • Feet
  • March

• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Prayer
  • Self
  • Strength

• I'm not going to get in to an argument with anyone about the relative merits of Judaism and Christianity, and what it means for a Jewish kid to be a Christian - I'm just not interested in that argument.

  

  T Bone Burnett
  • Christian
  • Just
  • Argument

• I love all the Pixar movies, and I like 'Happy Feet Two.' 'Cause it has a lot of babies.

  

  Quvenzhane Wallis
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Feet

• When you're throwing the football the way you want to, you're not thinking about it. You're not thinking about your drop or your release point or the trajectory or where your feet are. It's just coming off your hand exactly the way you want it to, fluid and confident.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Thinking
  • Hand
  • Football

• The biggest challenge or biggest crisis knocking on the doors of humankind is fear and intolerance.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Fear
  • Challenge
  • Doors

• We laid the track on a smooth stretch of ground about one hundred feet north of the new building.

  

  Orville Wright
  • New
  • Building
  • Feet

• Man is not to be comprehended as a starting-point, or progress as a goal, without those two great forces, Faith and Love. Prayer is sublime.

  

  Albert Pike
  • Great
  • Faith
  • Progress

• What do I haveto help me, without spell or prayer,endure this hour, endless, heartless, anonymous,the death of love?

  

  Carol Ann Duffy
  • Help
  • Death
  • Prayer

• Let us pray...Oh, uh, please don't feel like you can't participate if you're not Christian, because this is a prayer for all faiths...

  

  Bo Burnham
  • Christian
  • Prayer

• God shapes the world by prayer.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • World
  • God
  • Prayer

• Ministers should not pray so loud, and long, as to exhaust the strength. It is not necessary to weary the throat and lungs in prayer. God's ear is ever open to hear the heart-felt petitions of his humble servants, and he does not require them to wear out the organs of speech in addressing him.

  

  Ellen G. White
  • God
  • Long
  • Heart

• Prayer is the slender nerve that moves the muscle of omnipotence.

  

  Martin Farquhar Tupper
  • Prayer

• I think one thing is that prayer has become more useful, interesting, fruitful, and... almost involuntary in my life.

  

  Mary Oliver
  • Life
  • Interesting
  • Prayer

• Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop the skills and discipline required to produce a coherent analysis, based on logic and evidence. The implications of having so many people so incapable of confronting opposing arguments with anything besides ad hominem responses reach far.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • School
  • Enough
  • Discipline

• In school I was in the dark room all the time, and I've always collected stray photographs; there's a great deal of memory in them.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Time
  • Great
  • School

• One of the things that's funniest about the entertainment industry and comedy is that people go 'Oh, you're great, but I don't know what to do with you.' The great thing about the Internet is that nobody has to figure out what to do with you. You can figure out what to do with you, and you can say, 'I made this thing, and I'm going to put it out, and now if people want to come see me and buy things from me they can.'

  

  Eugene Mirman
  • People
  • Comedy
  • Internet

• I think culture precedes politics, and I think the attempts to try and legislate people's behavior... isn't going to be productive until the culture decides what they want to achieve.

  

  Foster Friess
  • People
  • Culture
  • Politics

• This wasn't prayer anyway, it was just argument with the gods. Prayer, he suspected as he hoisted himself up and turned for the door, was putting one foot in front of the other. Moving all the same.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Prayer
  • Feet
  • Argument