Wise Quotes
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Let's face it, making movies is all risk. Most of the time, batting average-wise, the reward does not outweigh the risk.
John Slattery
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From our humble beginning as a supply town for miners, to the national leader in smart growth and environmental stewardship we are today, Boulder has always been dedicated to the careful balance of entrepreneurship and wise land use.
Jared Polis
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When the wise man opens his mouth, the beauties of his soul present themselves to the view, like the statues in a temple.
Pythagoras
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Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I would rather the crude go to U.S. refineries to get refined and then export the refined product because we get double, triple the money.
John Shimkus
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Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left is who we really are, and who we really are is compassionate and intelligent and wise.
Marianne Williamson
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Though a man be wise it is no shame for him to live and learn.
Sophocles
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Me personally, I side more with punk rock bands. I grew up with The Misfits, The Dead Boys, The Damned, Dropkick Murphys, and early AFI. That was the stuff that really got me into music. Song writing wise, bands like Alkaline Trio were very important to me for beginning to write songs.
Andy Biersack
Black Veil Brides
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Christ died for the ungodly. And if you turn to Him at this moment with an honest heart, and receive Him simply as your Saviour and your God, I have the authority of His word for telling you that He will in no wise cast out.
Dwight L. Moody
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My mom didn't write, but she loved to read. She liked books 'that made you a little nervous.' Stephen King, Dean Koontz and Peter Straub were the three wise men of our family bookshelf.
Michael Easton
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It is the path of least resistance that makes rivers and men crooked.
B. J. Palmer
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A great rock is not disturbed by the wind; the mind of a wise man is not disturbed by either honor or abuse.
Dalai Lama
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Saints live in flames; wise men, next to them.
Emil Cioran
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Although God is all powerful, He is unable to give more; though supremely wise, He knows not how to give more; though vastly rich, He has not more to give.
Saint Augustine
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There is no God, Nature sufficeth unto herself; in no wise hath she need of an author.
Marquis de Sade
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A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men.
Plato
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I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.
Laz Alonso
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Any attempts at autobiography before the age of eighty seem pretty self-involved to me. There are a lot of smart middle aged people but not many wise ones.
Jimmy Buffett
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Choose a good disagreeable friend, if you be wise--a surly, steady, economical, rigid fellow.
William Makepeace Thackeray
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She spoke and loosened from her bosom the embroidered girdle of many colors into which all her allurements were fashioned. In it was love and int desire which steals the mind even of the wise.
Homer
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The question is, whether, like the Divine Child in the Temple, we are turning knowledge into wisdom, and whether, understanding more of the mysteries of life, we are feeling more of its sacred law; and whether, having left behind the priests and the scribes and the doctors and the fathers, we are about our Father's business, and becoming wise to God.
Frederick William Robertson
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Wise men speak because they have something to say; Fools because they have to say something.
Plato
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All things bright and beautiful,
All creatures great and small,
All things wise and wonderful,
The Lord God made them all.
Cecil Frances Alexander
