Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
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I never thought I wouldn't succeed. Not because I thought I was good-looking - I just thought I would make it.
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There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.
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I always knew I would act. It was just a matter of time.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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I'd have loved to have appeared in 'Absolutely Fabulous' - that's one of my favourite shows.
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Once you digitize data, you can actually analyze patterns and relationships in geographic space - relationships between certain health patterns and air or water pollution, between plants and climate, soils, landscape.
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Everything you are against weakens you. Everything you are for empowers you.
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I don't want to become known as just a body.
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Any athlete has massive reserves in their body and their emotional landscape.
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I haven't sold to the movies. In other words, I haven't gotten any enormous checks yet.
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You parents of the wilful and the wayward! Don't give them up. Don't cast them off. They are not utterly lost. The Shepherd will find his sheep. They were His before they were yours - long before He entrusted them to your care; and you cannot begin to love them as He loves them.
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In my district, California 14, we have about 4,000 families who are on food stamps, but some of my colleagues have thousands and thousands more. Yet, they somehow feel like crusaders, like heroes, when they vote to cut food stamps.
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Just as it had taken centuries to determine the true nature of the universe, so also the search for the beginning of human life proceeded well into the 20th century.
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I was definitely the kid in the back of the class with his head down the whole time not wanting to speak up and say anything.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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I'm a big Hall and Oates fan.
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The books I like to read the most feel like they've been written by somebody who had to write them or go crazy. They had to get them out of their heads. I like that kind of urgency.
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People need to know that they are not alone, that they have not been abandoned; but that there is One Who loves them for what they are, Who cares about them.
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Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.
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The hardest struggle of all is to be something different from what the average man is.
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...what's absolutely unforgivable is the financial benefit top management people get for laying off people. There is no excuse for it. No justification. This is morally and socially unforgivable, and we will pay a heavy price for it.
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For me, everything about the telling is guided by tone. It's a bit mysterious; it's either there, or it isn't.
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Worry is an old man with bended head, carrying a load of feathers which he thinks are lead.
