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If I had to summarize, most broadly, my concerns as a writer, I'd say the question 'How then must we live?' is at the heart of it, for me.
A new language requires a new technique. If what you're saying doesn't require a new language, then what you're saying probably isn't new.
If both factions, or neither, shall abuse you, you will probably be about right. Beware of being assailed by one and praised by the other.
There is faith in every serious doubt, namely, the faith in the truth as such, even if the only truth we can express is our lack of truth.
Eve, I know this continues to astound and baffle you, but I actually like to socialize." "I know. If it wasn't for that, you'd be perfect.
You can tell how much someone respects you by how much he respects your opinion. If he doesn't respect your opinion, he won't respect you.
If I say something about David [Bowie], I get 1000 tweets, if I say something about my business just a few! The more personal, the better.
If I give Susan a new Cuisinart then she'll be happy ... If she's thankful to me, my life will be better ... she will do something for me.
Because of the Shewing I am not good but if I love God the better: and in as much as ye love God the better, it is more to you than to me.
If you really want to diminish a candidate, depict him as the foil of his handler. This is as old in American politics as politics itself.
all we have is our deep and abiding love for each other. We can't loose that or we loose ourselves. If we don't help each other, who will?
We are part of a mystery, a splendid mystery within which we must attempt to orient ourselves if we are to have a sense of our own nature.
The only label I would choose for myself is Christian, but if you pushed me and you say, 'What sort of Christian are you?' I'm an Anglican.
If you love something - let. If it is yours - it will come back. I love you not because of who you are, but for who I am when I'm with you.
I knew my motivations for going to each place and what I was looking for. If I don't do that then I generally don't write about my travels.
I was Renee Zellweger's fat doppelganger. If she ever played in a movie where she needed to be fat, apparently I could be her stunt double.
If there's something more awaiting me in the future, I'd rather leave it up to God since what He creates is far better than my imagination.
If you read with empathy what Lincoln went through, then you realize what you're going through is nothing compared to what he went through.
If you have things and if you are a perfectionist, which I am, you have to really tend to them, and it takes energy away from other things.
Some woman are more interested in what they look like than what they are. If they more interested in what they are, they would look better.
They say if one understands himself, he understands all people. But I say to you, when one loves people, he learns something about himself.
Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
Life's short. Anything could happen, and it usually does, so there is no point in sitting around thinking about all the ifs, ands and buts.
Everyone said that if you want to be a real actor, go to New York. If you want to sell out, go to L.A. And I thought, "I want to sell out!"
The present always masquerades as a beginning; maybe we couldn't endure it if we realized at the time that it was a peak, or even an ending.
Perhaps if we say it straight, we suspect, if we express our sentiments too excessively or too directly, we'll find we're nothing but banal.
I always say that death can be one of the greatest experiences ever. If you live each day of your life right, then you have nothing to fear.
If I were a chocolate I'd eat myself. Seriously, we're all interested in ourselves and what other people are saying about us to some extent.
Become friendly with the present moment, because if you do not become friendly with the present moment you cannot become friendly with life.
If you're being attacked from all sides, it's possible you're doing something right; it's also possible that you are doing everything wrong.
If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can keep on doing it as long as we can.
If our friends do us a service, we think they owe it to us by their title of friend. We never think that they do not owe us their friendship.
You try to go where the great scripts are, if you can, or you go where the not great scripts are, because that's what's being offered to you.
We're nothing if we're not loved. When you meet somebody who is more important to you than yourself, that has to be the most important thing.
If a heart becomes attached to anything other than Allah, Allah makes him dependent on what he is attached to. And he will be betrayed by it.
You just have to work with what God sends, and if God doesn't seem to understand the concept of commercial success than that's your bad luck.
Now that I'm with RCA, they were able to get radio on board, and it's just really awesome to see their support and 'What Ifs' going to No. 1.
Well usually if I'm having a sh***y day, I don't post anything. I don't go out just to tell everyone I'm having a great day, even if I'm not.
Every sentient being values her/his life even if no one else does. That is what is meant by saying that the lives of all have inherent value.
If I did not love the things that I do, how could I spend my life doing this? You have to invest what you spend your life doing with pleasure.
If you remain always far, love will die. If you remain always near, love will die. Love can survive only in a continuous flowing relationship.
I don't take nothin' from no one. I do what I wanna do. And I'm gonna do that until the day I die. And if I can't do that, then I'll just die.
If you love something, set it free. If it comes back, it was, and always will be yours. If it never returns, it was never yours to begin with.
You have to feel confident. If you don't, then you're going to be hesitant and defensive, and there'll be a lot of things working against you.
Of men eternally dear! happy indeed If you have breathing-space From pain: blessed all the more If death should heal you of the pain you fear!
You can't always do the extraordinary, in between you have to do the ordinary. Because if you didn't, what would constitute the extraordinary?
If he'd looked like a cross between Mr. Clooney and, say, one of the hobbits, I probably would have been far more capable of coherent thought.
If you would get a contented life, do not grasp too much of the world, do not take in more of the business of the world than God calls you to.
I firmly believe that there is a God. I firmly believe that there is a Heaven. And I firmly believe that if you go there, it's gonna be great.
It was so kind of you to mention that I don't wear stays. What's the point? If you squeeze it in at one point, it only comes out at the other.