Top 100 Quotes About Baxter
#1. Ambassador Winters, allow me to introduce my aunt Abby and her ... boyfriend.' Townsed tensed. Abby glared. And Rebecca Baxter looked like she was going to choke on her chewing gum.
Ally Carter
#2. Ma Baxter rocked complacently. They were all pleased whenever she made a joke. Her good nature made the same difference in the house as the hearth-fire had made in the chill of the evening.
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#3. Ever' man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. 'Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but 'taint easy.
--Penny Baxter to his son, Jody
Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
#4. there are times when no one is right, and sometimes among family and children, no one can admit that there is no right, and that maybe at the same time there is no wrong. But in this case I was wrong and I appreciate Vivian Baxter for being big enough to accept my apology.
Maya Angelou
#5. What is the distance between here and there, between now and then, between right and wrong? In Greg Baxter's pellucid first novel, 'The Apartment,' it may be simply the length of a day - but a day in which one travels surprisingly far, literally and figuratively.
Stacey D'Erasmo
#6. There's sort of an open offer to work with a guy in Los Angeles who does big band and orchestra arrangements who was at least an acquaintance to Les Baxter before he passed away.
Jello Biafra
#7. Richard Baxter: Ye saints, who toil below, Adore your heavenly King, And onward as ye go Some joyful anthem sing. Take what He gives, And praise Him still Through good and ill Who ever lives.
J.I. Packer
#8. Baxter knows a lot more than I do, I told her.
Yes, said Baxter, but I will never tell people all of it.
Alasdair Gray
#9. Kindle, ah,' said Baxter, 'takes me back.
Ken MacLeod
#10. Meredith Baxter Birney gets beaten by a rod, in the Lifetime Original, Rod.
Jim Gaffigan
#11. Pixie herself was too little to tell a proper story. She just said a whole jumble of stuff: 'Pixie did dancing, then Pixie did singing, then Pixie ate lots and lots of ice cream,' droning on and on about herself. 'Pixie did telling stories and she was boring,' said Baxter unkindly.
Jacqueline Wilson
#12. What is the fabric of time like? Black silk? A smooth twill, a rough tweed? Or lacy and fragile like something Mrs. Baxter would knit?
Kate Atkinson
#13. [F]olks would better off dipping their heads in a bucket of liquid [nitrogen] and battering them against a tree very very hard than reading Baxter's Titan. It would not surprise me if reading that book causes birth defects.
Stephen Baxter
#14. Anne Baxter was a very good actress, Donna Reid was great. You couldn't name an actress I wasn't crazy about.
Richard Widmark
#15. Which is exactly why we must have equal pay. That is all women want, Baxter. We don't want to eradicate all men from the earth, we just want to live side by side with our counterparts in harmony and independence, sharing their lives, as partners.
Kate Kingsbury
#16. Lifetime is television for women. Yet for some reason, there's always a woman getting beaten on that channel. "In a Lifetime original, Meredith Baxter-Berney gets beaten with a rod. In a Lifetime original, Rod."
Jim Gaffigan
#17. a body, until the whole of Miss Baxter
Laura Wood
#18. Baxter and Sam Hall. 'I'll have a large Scotch, I'm
Jack Higgins
#19. It was tough for him in that newsroom with Ted Baxter getting all the glory and this poor guy doing all the work. Murray worried so much he worried his hair off!
Gavin MacLeod
#20. Tell me or I'll yell for Mr. and Mrs. Baxter, and you can find out how bex became bex
Ally Carter
#21. In Baxter's view the care for external goods should only lie on the shoulders of the "saint like a light cloak, which can be thrown aside at any moment".114 But fate decreed that the cloak should become an iron cage.
Max Weber
#22. My God, the corruptions of literature. It put all these notions into our heads.
Charles Baxter
#23. Till you can rest in God's will you will never have rest.
Richard Baxter
#24. I wasn't afraid to fail. Something good always comes out of failure.
Anne Baxter
#25. [T]his is the strongest encouragement to them in sinning; and we have need to lay all our batteries against this bulwark of presumption (361).
Richard Baxter
#26. Any good music must be an innovation.
Les Baxter
#28. After all, addiction is just the last stage of consumerism.
Charles Baxter
#29. The devils never had a Savior offered to them, but you have; and do you yet make light of Him?
Richard Baxter
#30. [T]he astonishing purity of pain, how it will not be mixed with any other sensation.
Charles Baxter
#31. We're going to bollocks up our second chance at Eden, even before the paint has dried.
Stephen Baxter
#32. [W]hen the pleasure is at the sweetest, death is the nearest (461)[.]
Richard Baxter
#33. Beaverbrook is so pleased to be in the government that he is like the town tart who finally married the Mayor.
Beverley Baxter
#34. In the Vortex that lies beyond time and space tumbled a police box that was not a police box.
Stephen Baxter
#35. Men's giving can only be to a certain extent: but God's is without limit.
J. Sidlow Baxter
#36. Per ardua ad astra. Through adversity to the stars.
Stephen Baxter
#37. I am a lesbian, and it was a later in life recognition of that fact.
Meredith Baxter
#38. Needing something is not the same thing as being interested in the thing itself.
Charles Baxter
#39. Every door I pass is one way. So I may as well look around, and see what there is beyond the next door, and the next.
Stephen Baxter
#40. We do teach our kids the golden rule - Do as you would be done by.
Stephen Baxter
#41. The more they love each other, the more they participate in each other's griefs, and one or the other will be frequently under some sort of suffering.
Richard Baxter
#42. Overvalue not therefore the manner of your own worship, and overvilify not other men's of a different mode.
Richard Baxter
#43. [I]f thou loiter when thou shouldst labour, thou wilt lose the crown. O fall to work then speedily and seriously, and bless God that thou hast yet time to do it; and though that which is past cannot be recalled, yet redeem the time now by doubling thy diligence (260).
Richard Baxter
#44. Most (Christians) have an ungrounded trust in Christ, hoping that He will pardon, justify and save them, while the world has their hearts, and they live to the flesh. And this trust they take as justifying faith.
Richard Baxter
#45. When all the details fit in perfectly, something is probably wrong with the story.
Charles Baxter
#46. To live among such excellent helps as our libraries afford, to have so many silent wise companions whenever we please.
Richard Baxter
#47. Life is short, and we are dull, and eternal things are necessary, and the souls that depend on our teaching are precious.
Richard Baxter
#48. If life be long I will be glad, that I may long obey; if short, yet why should I be sad to welcome to endless day?
Richard Baxter
#50. Paganism attributes the creation of the world to blind chance.
Richard Baxter
#51. It is a contradiction to be a true Christian and not humble.
Richard Baxter
#52. He gave the impression of being clean and dry as though he had been pressed between two large blotters which had absorbed all his vital juices.
Charles Baxter
#53. As trait after trait swings into focus and fulfillment, can we write any other name under Isaiah's amazing portrait of the sublime Sufferer in Chapter 53 than Jesus of Nazareth?
J. Sidlow Baxter
#54. Dangers bring fears, and fears more dangers bring.
Richard Baxter
#55. You'll be amazed at how capable people think you are if they don't know you well. Don't waste that advantage.
Baxter Black
#57. But my middle daughter, Kate, is very involved in martial arts, and I was just at one of her competitions.
Meredith Baxter
#58. Of two duties we must choose the greater, though of two sins we must choose neither (556).
Richard Baxter
#59. Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.
Richard Baxter
#60. To his great relief she recommended no course of action. She listened. She didn't believe in giving advice, even when asked.
Charles Baxter
#61. My grandfather Frank Lloyd Wright wore a red sash on his wedding night. That is glamour!
Anne Baxter
#62. In necessary things, unity; in doubtful things, liberty; in all things, charity.
Anne Baxter
#63. O blessed be the grace that makes advantages of my corruptions, even to contradict and kill themselves (648).
Richard Baxter
#64. Well, that's the secret of commerciality, a simple style and you stick with it.
Les Baxter
#65. What to do when adversity strikes? There is only one thing to do. Stand steady and see it through. Stay steadfast, constant, and true. The real tragedy in the whirlwinds of life comes only when we allow them to blow us off our true course.
David S. Baxter
#66. Of all the preaching in the world, I hate that preaching which tends to make the hearers laugh, or to move their minds with tickling levity and affect them as stage plays used to, instead of affecting them with a holy reverence for the name of God.
Richard Baxter
#67. Evaded her, and she sensed they did not believe her
Stephen Baxter
#68. As an ex-footballer, sometimes surfer and wannabe rock star, Quentin had been fucked by cheerleaders, surfer girls and groupies, but he had never, ever been fucked like that.
Ros Baxter
#69. Open her heart to me, please, God. After the mess I've made of things, I can't do this on my own.
Karen Kingsbury
#70. I've never believed in cheapening music by going according to what some people think is public taste.
Les Baxter
#72. King said, "Come. Sit. Have some more drinks. Colonel Kalinski, will you sort that out? You
Stephen Baxter
#73. If thy meditation tends to fill thy note-book with notions, and good sayings, concerning God, and not thy heart with longing after him, and delight in him, for aught I know thy book is as much a Christian as thou (553).
Richard Baxter
#74. As one gets older, the story of Hansel and Gretel becomes more interesting only when told from the point of view of the witch.
Charles Baxter
#75. A great many persons are able to become Members of this House without losing their insignificance.
Beverley Baxter
#76. Oh! what a potent instrument for Satan is a misguided conscience(93)!
Richard Baxter
#77. Before I met Oscar, I was fine. But then I met him, and I knew him, and I loved him, and he died, and after that, in an Oscarless world, I couldn't go back to the way I was before I knew him, because I wasn't the same person anymore. He mutated me.
Charles Baxter
#78. It helps that in michigan everyone goes inside from november through april. but from may until october they are outside, on display, and all of a sudden if you are single, you have a window to heaven and no way at all to get in.
Charles Baxter
#79. His was the kind of beauty for which you would pay the price of a lifetime of sorrow and all the varieties of rage. Eventually, you would have to go to church to get rid of him.
Charles Baxter
#80. When I want 30 musicians in the orchestra, I get 30.
Les Baxter
#81. What a midwesterner he was, a thoroughly unhip guy with his heart in the usual place, on the sleeve, in plain sight.
Charles Baxter
#82. Lothness to displease men, makes us undo them (394).
Richard Baxter
#83. Till men are deeply humbled, they can part with Christ and Salvation for a lust, for a little wordly gain, for that which is less than nothing. But when God hath enlightened their consciences, and broken their hearts, then they would give a world for Christ.
Richard Baxter
#84. Regardless of who originally made it popular, any hit song becomes a challenge to the ingenuity and imagination of other musicians and performers.
Les Baxter
#85. To be the people of God without regeneration, is as impossible as to be the children of men without generation.
Richard Baxter
#86. If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).
Richard Baxter
#87. If every work of the day had thus its appointed time, we should be better skilled, both in redeeming time and performing duty (556).
Richard Baxter
#88. Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding having received truths, lays them up in the memory now, consideration is the conveyer of theme from thence to the affections (571).
Richard Baxter
#89. She missed her mum every day, and it never seemed to get any easier - not until she met Dale. He made her life brighter, making it easier for her to leave her troubled past where it belonged, behind her. The pain never went away , but it faded into the background when she was with him.
Kat Green
#90. We fear to trust our wings. We plume and feather them, but dare not throw our weight upon them. We cling too often to the perch.
Charles Newcomb Baxter
#91. Publicans and harlots do sooner come to heaven than Pharisees, because they are sooner convinced of their sin and misery.
Richard Baxter
#92. Passion occupies a space that is not vacated until another passion occupies it.
Charles Baxter
#93. I preached as never sure to preach again, and as a dying man to dying men.
Richard Baxter
#95. One of the signs of a dysfunctional narrative is that we cannot leave it behind, and we cannot put it to rest, because it does not, finally, give us the explanation we need to enclose it.
Charles Baxter
#96. The loss of innocence, and the arrival of knowingness, can become an addiction.
Charles Baxter
#98. and behind them the quivering mucosity of her tongue.
Charles Baxter
#99. In response to how he checked the weather, "I just whip out my blue card with a hole in it and read what it says: 'When color of card matches color of sky, FLY!'"
Gordon Baxter
#100. The very design of the gospel doth tend to self-abasing; and the work of grace is begun and carried on in humiliation. Humility is not a mere ornament of a Christian, but an essential part of the new creature: it is a contradiction to be a sanctified man, or a true Christian, and not humble.
Richard Baxter
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