Peter Gzowski famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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We need spring. We need it desperately, and, usually, we need it before God is willing to give it to us.
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I'm still not sure what pulled me into the career I chose, even though, now, I can't imagine having done anything else. Mostly, I think I wanted to be a writer, or at least to try for a while.
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Everything in life, I have come to conclude, is about 15 minutes too long. Except for summer - summer never begins early enough and always ends too soon.
-- Peter Gzowski
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Loveliest of trees, the cherry now Is hung with bloom along the bough.
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There are going to be a lot of questions, not just in my country but across the Middle East: Is Israel going to continue to be 'Fortress Israel' — or, as we all hope, become accepted into the neighborhood? Which I believe is the only way we can move forward in harmony. And no matter what's happening in the Middle East — the Arab Spring, et cetera, the economic challenges, high rates of unemployment — the emotional, critical issue is always the Israeli-Palestinian one.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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Give me a land of boughs in leaf A land of trees that stand; Where trees are fallen there is grief; I love no leafless land.
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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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Aggressive Christianity is the world's greatest need.
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Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.
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Your inner voice is the voice of divinity. To hear it, we need to be in solitude, even in crowded places.
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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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