No good poetry is ever written in a manner twenty years old, for to write in such a manner shows conclusively that the writer thinks from books, convention and cliché, not from real life.
EZRA POUNDThe acid test of our love for God is obedience to His Word. The greatest ability is dependability. The test of your character is what it takes to stop you. Trust God as if it all depends upon Him, and work as if it all depends upon you.
More Bob Jones, Sr. Quotes
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Barack Obama and Jimmy Hoffa are like Tweedledum and Tweedledee, Lady Gaga and hype, the ‘Jersey Shore’ cast and hairspray: inseparable. The president can no more disown the Teamsters Union’s leader than he can disown his own id.
MICHELLE MALKIN -
In Paris, everything’s for sale: wise virgins, foolish virgins, truth and lies, tears and smiles.
EMILE ZOLA -
I have no writing habit. I work when I feel like it, and I work when I have to – mostly the latter.
BARBARA MERTZ -
You think about people like Hank Williams, who stood on that spot of wood, and Mr. Acuff, and, of course, George Jones.
ALAN JACKSON -
And after Brexit, we will be free to determine our economic future, with control over our money, laws and borders.
LIZ TRUSS -
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there’s a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
HELEN KELLER -
Getting healthy isn’t just about losing weight. It’s not limited to adjusting our diet and hoping for good physical results. It’s about recalibrating our souls so that we want to change – spiritually, physically, and mentally. And the battle really is in all three areas.
LYSA TERKEURST -
All of us who are worth anything, spend our manhood in unlearning the follies, or expiating the mistakes of our youth.
PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY -
It is correct that I overlooked the contamination of the party, not just now but also in the past.
BELA KUN -
I got a boss mentality.
LIL BABY -
Do to me, O Allah, what is worthy of Thee; And not what is worthy of me.
SAADI -
Such is the audacity of man, that he hath learned to counterfeit Nature, yea, and is so bold as to challenge her in her work.
PLINY THE ELDER -
In our society, the women who break down barriers are those who ignore limits.
ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER -
But remember that if the struggle were to resort to violence, it will lose vision, beauty and imagination. Most dangerous of all, it will marginalize and eventually victimize women. And a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.
ARUNDHATI ROY -
There are a couple of times I would’ve liked to have married. I think I made a mistake, especially once.
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