Maria Monk Quotes

We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God.

Maria Monk

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• I used to, in the summertime, spend so much money doing a lot of fun stuff. Now, I'm actually consciously trying to save so we can live how we want to live after basketball. I've even sold a few things.

  

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• I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.

  

  R. Kelly
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• Awards for arts, where you make comparisons, don't make much sense.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
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• Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.

  

  W. Clement Stone
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• I see that it is impossible to remember a long poem without practice and repetition; so is forgetfulness of the words of instruction engendered in the heart that has ceased to value them.

  

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• I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.

  

  Harold Brodkey
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• The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.

  

  Gary Lineker
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• I had a thick accent, and people didn't understand me, and I was ashamed, and I fumbled. I radiated an uncertain energy; sometimes baristas sensed this and wouldn't try to talk to me, and then an insecure voice in my head would cry, 'He's racist!'

  

  Karan Mahajan
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• If you want to be happy, make others happy!

  

  Dada Vaswani
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• Goals and objectives are based on theories and foundations.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
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• I never expected my writing to become as popular as it did.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
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• Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
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• All my music is inspirational. You just gotta listen to the words and get what you can get out of it.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Music
  • Words
  • inspirational

• The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.

  

  Adam Davidson
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• By the end of 2020, the only region of the world that will still have a lot of 2G connections may be Africa.

  

  Hans Vestberg
  • World
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• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
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• The cardinal responsibility of leadership is to identify the dominant contradiction at each point of the historical process and to work out a central line to resolve it.

  

  Mao Zedong
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• My mother was a woman who was very frustrated. She had a great deal of ability, and all this energy went into me and my brother.

  

  Doris Lessing
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• When I was in the hospital, I was very suicidal in a kind of blind way, I was starving to death and just 'cause I didn't want to turn out like my family showed me, you know, that's all I ever saw of people, was my own family. I wasn't allowed to associate with anyone. Oh, God. So I didn't want to live.

  

  Edie Sedgwick
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• We must not allow the liberals to move us away from the conservative values of the American past which sustain our present and shall secure our future. As for me and my family, we will serve God, we will serve this constitutional republic, we will serve America.

  

  Allen West
  • God
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• Interesting-looking people have always been comedians, and it's rare that someone who has the choice to model ends up being a comic. Except for maybe Whitney Cummings, but that's about it. That's why she's special: because she can combine it.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • People
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• The law of cause and effect: If you do what other successful people do, you will eventually get the results that other successful people get.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
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• We were constantly hearing it repeated, that we must never again look upon ourselves as our own; but must remember, that we were solemnly and irrevocably devoted to God.

  

  Maria Monk
  • God
  • Remember