Saint Teresa of Avila Quotes
I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
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All of us are mad. If it weren't for the fact every one of us is slightly abnormal, there wouldn't be any point in giving each person a separate name.
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My view is that life is too short. I'm not being melodramatic or anything, but when your mother dies in your arms - just you and her, and it's one o'clock in the morning, and you're waiting for her to exhale - you just think, life's too bloody short to argue about the little things.
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Ethiopia is such a great country, beautiful place.
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I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
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New York is such a versatile city, and there's always something new to discover.
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People want to see a movie that casts a mature woman across from a mature man.
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I think it all comes down to motivation. If you really want to do something, you will work hard for it.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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What you need to do is get that tape measure out, and start measuring that gut. Then you start working out and you start eating properly till that gut gets down close to it was when you were in your 20's. Then you'll find out what your weight should be.
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Modern surgery has been like a miracle to those who thought the pain was going to go on forever.
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Your cravings as a human animal do not become a prayer just because it is God whom you ask to attend to them.
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I love things that people hate. I hate middle-of-the-road stuff. It never really interests me.
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SAP is a great company, but they have their work cut out for them if they want to compete in databases.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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I have a little basement studio set up here at my house, and I do probably 80 percent of the recording here on my own. With multi-tracking technology, I can play various parts on top of one another.
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If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
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I myself, however wretched I may be, have been occasionally privileged to sit at the feet of the Lord Jesus, and to the extent that his merciful love allowed, have embraced with all my heart, now one, now the other, of these feet.
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It is unsafe to take your reader for more of a fool than he is.
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Before competition, I start to question things. I don't know why it happens, but you've got to control it so you don't get too far out of the race.
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True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.
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We have a special relationship with Israel. It's absolutely crucial that no one in our country or around the world ever doubt that our number one committment in the Middle East is to protect the right of Israel to exist, to exist permanently, and to exist in peace. It's a special relationship.
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I don't know what heavy penance I would not have gladly undertaken rather than practice prayer.
