Anthony Trollope Quotes

I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

Anthony Trollope

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• Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.

  

  J. I. Packer
  • God
  • Heart
  • Reality

• Year 2008 wiped out $19.2 trillion in US income... What if the money was spent on the Midwest of the United States?

  

  Jack Ma
  • Money
  • Year
  • United States

• The best of us must sometimes eat our words.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Words
  • Best
  • Sometimes

• You couldn't find a more stylized boxer than Sugar Ray Leonard.

  

  Usher
  • You
  • Find
  • Sugar

• I train for whatever happens. I'm prepared for wherever the fight goes.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Fight
  • Train
  • Wherever

• I'm used to having a camera in my face but not a camera following me.

  

  Zlatan Ibrahimovic
  • Me
  • Face
  • Camera

• I've always been an actor, a lowly actor without power, so I've never been corrupted. I've never even directed.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Power
  • Always
  • Never

• The Tao that can be told is not the eternal Tao; the name that can be named is not the eternal name. The Nameless is the origin of Heaven and Earth; the Named is the mother of all things.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Mother
  • Earth
  • Heaven

• I keep endlessly busy with all kinds of stuff, mostly horses, cattle, livestock, things like that.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Like
  • Busy
  • Cattle

• The first time Adrian saw me was on tape. But you should know that this never works - never in the history of movies has someone been cast from a video.

  

  Olivier Martinez
  • Time
  • History
  • Me

• Bombino's a super modest guy, very nice. His whole crew is a bunch of characters and he's definitely the Grand Poobah. I don't think the other guys are that much younger than him, but he definitely feels like the wise man; you just sort of get that sense when you're around him. He doesn't say that much but he's humble and well-respected.

  

  Dan Auerbach The Black Keys
  • Guy
  • Man
  • Nice

• Actors can't retire. What would they do?

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Would
  • Retire

• Our critics would love nothing more for us to go away and just be quiet. And we won't give them that satisfaction. We have young children that, one day, when they understand more of what's happened and what's transpired, we wanna be able to say to them, you know, we did our best. And we told the truth.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Love
  • Truth
  • Give

• Discontent, blaming, complaining, self-pity cannot serve as a foundation for a good future, no matter how much effort you make.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Good
  • Future
  • Effort

• I go light on breakfast. Sometimes it's a yogurt, but a lot of times it's leftovers from one of my wife's dinners.

  

  Ice Cube
  • Light
  • Wife
  • Breakfast

• It's very difficult to balance different audiences and talk to each one without selling the others short. There is no universal literature - or, if there is, I don't know how to write it.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Different
  • Balance
  • Literature

• No one person or material thing could ever come close to the feeling I get when the music is right.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Music
  • Feeling
  • Come

• I think that presidents don't give up power that has accrued to them by the precedent of previous presidents. Even when they say they would like to, I think once they get there they don't give it up.

  

  Rachel Maddow
  • Up
  • Power
  • Think

• A Beethoven string-quartet is truly, as some one has said, a scraping of horses' tails on cats' bowels, and may be exhaustively described in such terms; but the application of this description in no way precludes the simultaneous applicability of an entirely different description.

  

  William James
  • Different
  • Science
  • Horse

• O what a blessing is Sunday, interposed between the waves of worldly business like the divine path of the Israelites through the sea! There is nothing in which I would advise you to be more strictly conscientious than in keeping the Sabbath day holy. I can truly declare that to me the Sabbath has been invaluable.

  

  William Wilberforce
  • Path
  • Sunday
  • Blessing

• We enjoy the process far more than the proceeds.

  

  Warren Buffett
  • Enjoy
  • Process
  • Far

• Can any of us even imagine, after Pearl Harbor, President Roosevelt suggesting we negotiate a resolution or that we could simply prosecute those involved? Of course it is unimaginable. We are right to be in the Middle East, and we are right to treat this as the war it is.

  

  Marsha Blackburn
  • War

• The town horse, used to gaudy trappings, no doubt despises the work of his country brother; but yet, now and again, there comes upon him a sudden desire to plough.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Work
  • Country
  • Desire

• I doubt whether I ever read any description of scenery which gave me an idea of the place described.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • Doubt
  • Read
  • Scenery