"with the true convert, holiness is woven into all his powers, principles, and practice."

-- Joseph Alleine

#Practice Quotes #Principles Quotes #Woven Quotes

“Even with the recent story about the nurse killing herself in King Edward Hospital, there's no blame placed on Kate Middleton, who was in the hospital as far as I could see for absolutely no reason. She feels no shame about the death of this woman, she's saying nothing about the death of this poor woman. The arrogance of the British royals is staggering, absolutely staggering. And why it's allowed to be I really don't know... It wasn't because of two DJs in Australia that this woman took her own life, it was the pressure around her.”
“How many gangsters you know, from Al Capone up to John Gotti, been gay?”
“There is plenty of blame to go around for the U.S. housing bubble, but not much of it belongs to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. The two giant housing-finance institutions made many mistakes over the decades, some of them real whoppers, but causing house prices to soar and then crater during the past decade weren't among them.”
“My mantra is: put your brain into gear and if you can add to what's on the screen then do it, otherwise shut up.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I stand up, sure of one thing and one thing only. That my father will come and get me. He won't give me a lecture, he won't try to teach me a lesson. He won't ask a thousand questions or ask me to apologize. He'll just come and get me. "Just tell me where you are.”

Source : Melina Marchetta (2003). “Saving Francesca”
“I have a pretty normal office day. I get to work at 10 in the morning and leave at eight or nine.”
“The closer you get to real matter, rock air fire and wood, boy, the more spiritual the world is.”
“Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.”

Source : Kurt Vonnegut (1999). “Breakfast of Champions: Or, Goodbye Blue Monday!”, CNIB, 197

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