Quotes with alms-taking

Quotes 61 till 80 of 218.

  • Joseph Stowell God has marvelous ways of taking our worst tragedies and turning them into His most glorious triumphs.
    Joseph Stowell
    American Christian author
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  • Billy Sunday Going to church doesn't make anybody a Christian Any more than taking a wheelbarrow into a garage make it an automobile.
    Roger Biles, The human tradition in urban America (2002)
    Billy Sunday
    American athlete and evangelist (1862 - 1935)
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  • Candace Bushnell Growing up, nobody I knew even knew a writer. So it was a big adventure and something that I've wrestled with my whole life. I think it's a journey worth taking, really finding out who you are and what you do well.
    Candace Bushnell
    American author and journalist (1958 - )
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  • Joseph Conrad Hang ideas! They are tramps, vagabonds, knocking at the back-door of your mind, each taking a little of your substance, each carrying away some crumb of that belief in a few simple notions you must cling to if you want to live decently and would like to die easy!
    Joseph Conrad
    In Poland born English writer (1857 - 1924)
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  • Orson Welles Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.
    Orson Welles
    American film maker (1915 - 1985)
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  • Ronald Laing Human beings seem to have an almost unlimited capacity to deceive themselves into taking their own lies for truth.
    The politics of experience
    Ronald Laing
    unorthodox Scottish psychiatrist (1927 - 1989)
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  • Bruce Dickinson I am taking a break, but not a huge break because the Maiden record is actually happening right now, and I am recording it as we speak, well not right as we speak, but close.
    Bruce Dickinson
    English singer and songwriter (1958 - )
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  • Busy Philipps I find it to be strange that people get obsessed about how fast actresses and celebrities are taking off their baby weight. I guess people like to look to them and feel better about themselves or feel worse about themselves.
    Busy Philipps
    American actress and writer (1979 - )
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  • Ezra Pound I have always thought the suicide should bump off at least one swine before taking off for parts unknown.
    Ezra Pound
    American poet (1885 - 1972)
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  • John Sculley I have found that I always learn more from my mistakes than from my successes. If you aren't making some mistakes, you aren't taking enough chances.
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  • Ben Hecht I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt.
    Ben Hecht
    American writer, playwright (1894 - 1964)
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  • Buzz Aldrin I remember it was hard to believe that I was taking a step onto the lunar surface.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Lady Mary Wortley Montagu I sometimes give myself admirable advice, but I am incapable of taking it.
    Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
    English writer (1689 - 1762)
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  • Burt Bacharach I started playing piano with a little band in high school. I was terrible. I thought I had absolutely no talent. I couldn't keep time. I only got into McGill, which was a lousy music school, because they were taking American music students.
    Burt Bacharach
    American composer, songwriter and pianist (1928 - 2023)
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  • Adam Osborne I take what I see work. I'm a strict believer in the scientific principle of believing nothing, only taking the best evidence available at the present time, interpreting it as best you can, and leaving your mind open to the fact that new evidence will appear tomorrow.
    Adam Osborne
    British-American author and publisher (1939 - 2003)
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  • Buffalo Bill I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.
    Buffalo Bill
    American soldier, bison hunter, and showman (1846 - 1917)
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  • Barbara Hershey I'm afraid of being lazy and complacent. I'm afraid of taking myself too seriously.
    Barbara Hershey
    American actress (1948 - )
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  • Bethenny Frankel I'm always in my pajamas, unless I know for a fact that people are taking my picture.
    Bethenny Frankel
    American reality television personality, entrepreneur, and author (1970 - )
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  • Beck I'm just taking one step at a time. I could zigzag one way, but it's not usually on purpose.
    Beck
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1970 - )
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  • Buzz Aldrin I'm not in favor of just taking short-term isolated situations and depleting our resources to keep our climate just the way it is today.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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