"To depend partly upon Christ's righteousness and partly upon our own, is to set one foot upon a. rock and another in the quicksands. Christ will either be to us all in all in point of righteousness, or else nothing at all."

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Source : "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers". Book by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 541, 1895.

Thomas Erskine, 1st Baron Erskine

#Feet Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Christ Quotes

“Everybody in Spain is sick of me. But in America, there's curiosity about the new kid on the block who doesn't speak English very well. The attention makes me feel vulnerable, which is something I hadn't felt in a while. But I like it.”
“As a designer it's not my job to make people like me - I just want them to like my clothes.”

Source : Source: movieweb.com
“I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.”
“Ice dance should not be seen as a rigid conformist form of figure skating. There is a great deal of freedom and originality to be had.”

Source : "Cousins Continues to Entertain". Golden Skate Interview, goldenskate.com. December 6, 2003.
“I am she who lifts the mountains When she goes to hunt, Who wears mamba for a headband And a lion for a belt. Beware! I swallow elephants whole And pick my teeth with rhinoceros horns, I drink up rivers to get at the hippos. Let them hear my words! Nhamo is coming And her hunger is great. I am she who tosses trees Instead of spears. The ostrich is my pillow And the elephant is my footstool! I am Nhamo Who makes the river my highway And sends crocodiles scurrying into the reeds!”
“Reviving Spring, a toast to thy fresh lips! Thy blush is music, and e'en heaven lurks In thy thick perfumed hair that hangs about Thy flowered shoulders like enchanted rain; Thy sigh is song and thy soft breath a balm, Dispelling death -- soft loosing his cold grip, Unravelling darkness in the heart of pain, As o'er dank waters rings the laugh of dawn.”

Source : William Batchelder Greene (1888). “Cloudrifts at Twilight”
“I think my deepest criticism of the educational system . . . is that it's all based upon a distrust of the student. Don't trust him to follow his own leads; guide him; tell him what to do; tell him what he should think; tell him what he should learn. Consequently at the very age when he should be developing adult characteristics of choice and decision making, when he should be trusted on some of those things, trusted to make mistakes and to learn from those mistakes, he is, instead, regimented and shoved into a curriculum, whether it fits him or not.”
“I have theatre-training, I love doing theatre, I've done Broadway.”

Source : "Exclusive Interview – Stephen Tobolowsky" by Steve 'Frosty' Weintraub, collider.com. January 25, 2009.

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