When I was growing up, I never heard anyone pray, “Give me this day my daily bread.” It was always, “Give us this day our daily bread.” That stuck. We’re all in this together.
BILL MOYERSI bet, of course, but that’s misleading. One must encourage bloodstock breeding.
More Baron Ballantrae, Bernard Fergusson Quotes
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It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing’s going to change.
ANDY STANLEY -
Laughter keeps you healthy. You can survive by seeing the humor in everything. Thumb your nose at sadness; turn the tables on tragedy.
BEL KAUFMAN -
Worrying that banning flag desecration would inhibit free speech reveals a misunderstanding of the flag’s fundamental nature.
ADRIAN CRONAUER -
To find love in Paris you must go down among those classes where the absence of education and of vanity, and the struggle for bare necessities, have allowed more energy to survive.
STENDHAL -
This was due to a kind of increased existential awareness that resulted from this confrontation with the death of another. And I think it brought them in touch with their own death, so they began to experience a kind of preciousness to life that comes with an experience of its transiency.
IRVIN D. YALOM -
I’m a father, a son, and a grandson, and if anyone messed with my wife, mom, or grandmother, and if the law didn’t care about it, what would I do? Would I be defined by that action?
JASON MOMOA -
Search others for their virtue, and yourself for your vices.
BUCKMINSTER FULLER -
If I walked on water, my accusers would say it is because I can’t swim.
BERTI VOGTS -
Character is like a tree and reputation its shadow. The shadow is what we think it is and the tree is the real thing.
ABRAHAM LINCOLN -
Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.
RUMI -
We may not have chosen the time, but the time has chosen us.
JOHN LEWIS -
I have an intense curiosity. And it would be a shame if I lose the ability to do that.
ADRIEN BRODY -
The American war is over, but this is far from being the case with the American Revolution.
BENJAMIN RUSH -
They may kill me, but they cannot kill my ideas. They can crush my body, but they will not be able to crush my spirit.
BHAGAT SINGH -
My fake plants died because I did not pretend to water them.
MITCH HEDBERG -
Dressing well is a form of good manners.
TOM FORD -
I have died too many deaths that were not mine.
AUDRE LORDE -
Faith is an act of trust in the unknown.
ALAN WATTS -
It was true, she thought, that the big things awe us but the little things touch us.
BESS STREETER ALDRICH -
A republic properly understood is a sovereignty of justice, in contradistinction to a sovereignty of will.
REINHOLD NIEBUHR -
The flow of time cleanses the past and heals the wounds in people’s hearts. But there are wounds we cant speak of.
AI YAZAWA -
In the old days, the media is who held people accountable when they lied in politics. That isn’t happening anymore.
RUSH LIMBAUGH -
Emancipation of women has made them lose their mystery.
GRACE KELLY -
Wilson’s doctrine of self-determination gave a boost to the idea that wherever there dwelled a people, there should be a state.
MADELEINE ALBRIGHT -
Revolution is Tupac showing a young artist that he can scribble in a notebook and it’s worth a lot.
AFENI SHAKUR -
A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.
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