Elijah Parish Lovejoy Quotes
Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.
Quotes to Explore
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Some have suffered death to make it possible for us to have the scriptures today. Historically, the scriptures in the Bible were reserved for the clergy, with the reading of them by others being denounced. At times, laws even prohibited the public or private reading of them.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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I'm a weekday warrior who takes our Georgia values to Washington, and on the weekends, I'm back home.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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For single women, admitting that you want kids when you're still unattached can feel like exposing a vulnerability. It did to me.
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I lie, I cheat, and I steal.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I wanted to become an illustrator as a child.
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Power has to be insecure to be responsive.
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I still like to sit in a room and play games all day, so I'm a kid, really.
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Being a writer was never a choice, it was an irresistible compulsion.
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After I sold my screenplay adaptation of 'Rain Fall' to Sony Pictures, I had no more creative involvement.
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Some women,” Dahariel said in that same hard tone devoid of any hint of humanity, “get under a man’s skin until digging them out makes you bleed.
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Joy is one part inner peace, one part giddy delight and 100% attainable.
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People understand when I talk about my son not listening, or issues at home or his real dad coming back into the picture, or even stories about family members not seeing eye to eye with what you're doing.
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I'd like to imagine I won't end up in hell, but I think I've done too much acid and listened to too much death metal to sit on a cloud next to God with angels floating above my head.
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Shakespeare is just some bloke who keeps ranting "what light trough yonder window breaks" its the moon for god sakes!
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Is he not a God that showeth mercy and keepeth covenant? Of all sins, it seems to me that the sin of unbelief is the most dishonouring to God.
