Sidney Morgenbesser famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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To explain why a man slipped on a banana peel, we do not need a general theory of slipping.
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You think we shouldn't anthropomorphize people?
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If there were nothing you'd still be complaining!
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Why is God making me suffer so much? Just because I don't believe in him?
-- Sidney Morgenbesser
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He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back
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God never can use any man very much till he has grace enough to forget himself entirely while doing God's work; for He will not give His glory to another nor share with the most valued instrument the praise that belongs to Jesus Christ alone.
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I cannot understand how any man or woman can believe in the Lord's coming and not be a missionary, or at least committed to the work of missions with every power of his being.
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The soul of the slave, the soul of the "little man," is as dear to me as the soul of the great.
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Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose, But young men think it is, and we were young.
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How, then, find the courage for action? By slipping a little into unconsciousness, spontaneity, instinct which holds one to the earth and dictates the relatively good and useful. By accepting the human condition more simply, and candidly, by dreading troubles less, calculating less, hoping more.
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If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go
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A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation.
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I cannot bear not to know the end of a tale. I will read the most trivial things – once commenced – only out of a feverish greed to be able to swallow the ending – sweet or sour – and to be done with what I need never have embarked on. Are you in my case? Or are you a more discriminating reader? Do you lay aside the unprofitable?
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I don't want to abandon one work for the other, and I don't think I need to sacrifice anything to put my all into either one of them.
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