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From faith, hope, and love, the virtues of religion referring to God, there arises a double act which bears on the spiritual communion exercised between ...
Unquestionably, this drug is is very useful to the artist, activating trains of association that would otherwise be inaccessible, and I owe many of the ...
The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."
The essence of the CEO's job is strategy, not tactics; plan, not do; policy, not implementation.
But the Republican right-wing agenda, these people - Arnold and his patrons - felt it could be accomplished by circumventing the Legislature and spending money ...
A thousand and one is still only a thousand. That one seems never to have existed: a
Machinery may make for efficiency and a standardisation of life, but horse love is a bond of freemasonry which unites the entire race ...
Faith is the deep want of the soul. We have faculties for the spiritual, as truly as for the outward world. God, the foundation of ...
Caves are whimsical things, and geology on a local scale is random and unpredictable.
The Sierra Nevada is five hundred miles of rock put right. Granite freed by glaciers and lifted through clouds where water, frozen and fine, has ...
The real problem with the art world is not the money men scavenging in its wake - they've always been there - but the pirates ...
First of all I think of puppets as sculpture. They are sculpture that moves. You could label it any way you want, but for me ...
The de facto censorship which leaves so many Americans functionally illiterate about the history of US foreign affairs may be all the more effective because ...
I was one of those people who was always rather frightened of women politicians.
Wall Street's graveyards are filled with men who were right too soon.
Our children will be told what Israel has done.' graffiti on the Wall in Bethlehem, opposite Aida refugee camp, 2008
We are what we myth.
Coincidences' happen when God is invited into the situation. We have learned to call them 'God-incidences
Love, unrequited, robs me of my rest:Love, hopeless love, my ardent soul encumbers:Love, nightmare-like, lies heavy on my chest,And weaves itself into my midnight slumbers!
The Life of Sir Thomas Munro, by the Rev. G. R. Gleig, in two volumes, a new edition (London, 1831), vol. ii, p. 175.
The fellow inmate shook his head and walked away mumbling to himself. Andrews smiled
All great work - artistic, poetic, intellectual or spiritual - is produced at those moments when its creators are lost completely in their actions, when ...
A woman is like fine whisky. Deep and subtle, smooth but strong, warm yet lingering.
Is nature a gigantic cat? If so, who strokes its back?
When you get out of college, you think, "I've learned all I need to learn."
Time and experience have a funny way of altering one's recollections of the past.
You don't need all that. All you need is Jesus!
Success is failure inside out.
To regard the successful experiences which ensue from a belief as a criterion of its truth is one thingand a thing that is sometimes bad ...
God raises up such men as John Bunyan and William Huntington but once in a century.
Things like dating, family, and friends are just so valuable to me and I didn't want to put any strain on any of those relationships ...
If ten men are carrying a log - nine of them on the little end and one at the heavy end - and you want ...
Real success starts with discovering the reason you have your unique life, with all its trials and circumstances - why you were gifted with it, ...
We are all mental cases at some time or another. You are, I am, everybody. It's usually a matter of frequency, severity, and timing.
Man is not an organism; he is an intelligence served by organs.
I'm done for the day, but the day's not done.
Make things worth sharing.
Equality before the law in a true democracy is a matter of right. It cannot be a matter of charity or of favor or of ...
Anything that exceeds our need becomes worldly, "Egyptian," something of Pharaoh, and it frustrates us from the economy of God's purpose ... Our living and ...
I'm going to be on the road for the rest of my life.
I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe's couplets: "Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power ...
I found more than love, more than hope and peace. I found my home.
If people spent more time trying to accomplish their goals, they would have less time to mind other peoples business.
While ice is not really alive, it is certainly animate. It exists in an dynamic state of perpetual vibration, flux and movement. Enjoy its existence, ...
You're damn right I do. I'm in Madison Square Garden getting the s*** knocked out of me
Not all returns are retreats, and if I wanted to go home, it wasn't a dream of escape, it was because love can't exist without ...
We spend our lives hurrying away from the real, as though it were deadly to us. It must be somewhere up there on the horizon, ...
I am reminded how hollow the label of leadership sometimes is and how heroic followership can be.
Nations, no matter how small and unmeritorious, cannot be annihilated. They may be put down and even divided up, and their name erased from the ...
The computer is incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid.Man is unbelievably slow, inaccurate, and brilliant.The marriage of the two is a force beyond calculation.