Foolishly Quotes
85 quotes by 76 authors
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He has told us to pray, 'Thy will be done on earth, as it is in heaven' (Matthew 6:10). And if we have ever prayed…
— Tom Wells
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There are worse things than having behaved foolishly in public. There are worse things than these miniature betrayals, committed or endured or suspected; there are…
— Fleur Adcock
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To be hopeful in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only…
— Howard Zinn
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We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.
— Victor Hugo
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It must be obvious that liberty necessarily means freedom to choose foolishly as well as wisely; freedom to choose evil as well as good; freedom…
— Ben Moreell
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I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask…
— Ovid
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Instead of seeing all of this as God's extraordinary grace, we come to expect the comfort and joys that God gives us as the baseline,…
— R. C. Sproul, Jr.
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The longer I lived, the more beautiful life became - despite my personal tragedies, the fire, despite my third wife and her dreadful taste. My…
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Le Chiffre was serving a wonderful purpose, a really vital purpose, perhaps the best and highest purpose of all. By his evil existence, which I…
— Ian Fleming
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Part of the loot went for gambling, part for horses, and part for women. The rest I spent foolishly.
— George Raft
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The man who foolishly does me wrong, I will return to him the protection of my most ungrudging love; and the more evil comes from…
— Gautama Buddha
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When one is traveling, one must expect to spend a certain amount of money foolishly.
— Robertson Davies
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Adults...struggle desperately with fiction, demanding constantly that it conform to the rules of everyday life. Adults foolishly demand to know how Superman can possibly fly,…
— Grant Morrison
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If you foolishly ignore beauty, then you will soon find yourself without it.
— Frank Lloyd Wright
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Grace is what matters. In anything. Especially life, especially growth, tragedy, pain, love, death. About people, that's what matters. That's a quality I admire very…
— Jeff Buckley
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God, Who is by nature good and dispassionate, loves all men equally as His handiwork. But He glorifies the virtuous man because in his will…
— Maximus the Confessor
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If you teach a poor young man to shave himself, and keep his razor in order, you may contribute more to the happiness of his…
— Benjamin Franklin
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Return to the battle again, no longer trusting in the false and insufficient human resources which so foolishly we had taken into the battle, but…
— Alan Redpath
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Be foolishly in love, because love is all there is.
— Rumi
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Everybody knows something's broken in the world. But illogically, foolishly, we are looking for fixes from broken people with broken ideas in broken places.
— Matt Chandler
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