A throne is only a bench covered with velvet. ~French Proverb
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The best thing a girl can be is a good wife and mother. It is a girl's highest calling. I hope I am ready. ~Nancy E. Turner
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Well, it's always nice to know the fans didn't forget what you did when you played in the NHL. ~Guy Lafleur
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Be happy while you are living, for you are a long time dead. ~Scottish Proverb
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The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter. ~Winston Churchill
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Theatre is where my heart is. It is where I can do my best work. And even if I do films and TV, that is what I want to come back to. ~Kelly Reilly
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That is what I try to do each and every week is give my best effort and not give up, no matter what comes at us. ~Kurt Busch
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If you want to be criticized, marry. ~Irish Proverb
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The glory is not in never failing, but in rising every time you fall. ~Chinese Proverb
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Government is at best useless, and at worst counter-productive. ~Kakha Bendukidze
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Courtesy does not exclude courage. ~Spanish Proverb
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We are dealing in a day and time when the courts are defining sin different than the church. ~Johnny Hunt
#quotes #johnny-hunt #christianity

Stories are the best democracy we have. We are allowed to become the other we never dreamed we could be. ~Colum McCann
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Seemed to me that drumming was the best way to get close to God. ~Lionel Hampton
#quotes #lionel-hampton #music

All good things must come to an end. ~English Proverb
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to not arm people to repress. ~Jean Bertrand Aristide
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The first assumption of an art critic is that the artist meant to paint something else. ~Robert Breault
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A mother understands what a child does not say. ~Jewish proverb
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No one was ever lost on a straight road. ~Indian Proverb
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Reality is not meant to be only creedal, though the creeds are important. Reality is to be experienced, and experienced on the basis of a restored relationship with God through that finished work of the Lord Jesus Christ on the cross. ~Francis Schaeffer
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If you are a patient in one moment of anger, you will escape a hundred days of sorrow. ~Chinese Proverb
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Absence makes the heart grow fonder. ~English Proverb
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When I am in situations where I break out of the pattern, it's hard on me. Once you get used to regular scripture study, you miss it if you don't have it. It's like food; you have to have it. I know that I need the scriptures like I need food. I don't miss a regular meal, and I don't miss regular scripture study. ~Henry B. Eyring
#quotes #henry-b-eyring

What bothers most critics of my work is the goofiness. One reviewer said I need to make up my mind if want to be funny or serious. My response is that I will make up my mind when God does, because life is a commingling of the sacred and the profane, good and evil. To try and separate them is fallacy. ~Tom Robbins
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Whenever armed forces are used, the idea of combat must be present. The end for which a soldier is recruited, clothed, armed, and trained, the whole object of his sleeping, eating, drinking, and marching is simply that he should fight at the right place and the right time. ~Carl von Clausewitz
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