Formed Quotes
849 quotes by 682 authors
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Is the Son of God praying in me, or am I dictating to Him?... Prayer is not simply getting things from God, that is a…
— Oswald Chambers
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Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
— William Gurnall
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Anyhow, all mankind's ideas and interests, all human aims and motives, are exhibited, fully formed, in a three-year-old child. The kid is just operating on…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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Originally, we were going to set up a cappuccino bar in the showroom, but we've been so busy, ... We decided when we're old and…
— Elizabeth Taylor
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When the general is weak and without authority; when his orders are not clear and distinct; when there are no fixed duties assigned to officers…
— Sun Tzu
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Know yourself and you will win all battles. Move swift as the Wind and closely-formed as the Wood. Attack like the Fire and be still…
— Sun Tzu
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Until you have learned to be tolerant with those who do not always agree with you; until you have cultivated the habit of saying some…
— Napoleon Hill
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Virtues are formed by prayer. Prayer preserves temperance. Prayer suppresses anger. Prayer prevents emotions of pride and envy. Prayer draws into the soul the Holy…
— Ephrem the Syrian
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The intrinsic brightness of theSun is fully 5,000 times as great as if the whole surface were formed of the molten steel just issuing from…
— Robert Stawell Ball
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Whatever is formed for long duration arrives slowly to its maturity.
— Samuel Johnson
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Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be…
— Hannah Arendt
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Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.
— Lord Byron
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Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if…
— Thor Heyerdahl
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Many animals even now spring out of the soil, Coalescing from the rains and the heat of the sun. Small wonder, then, if more and…
— Lucretius
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Beautiful things, when taste is formed, are obviously and unaccountably beautiful.
— George Santayana
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I was told that the privileged and the people formed two nations.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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A militia, when properly formed, are in fact the people themselves... and include all men capable of bearing arms.
— Richard Henry Lee
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When we come to judge others it is not by ourselves as we really are that we judge them, but by an image that we…
— W. Somerset Maugham
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In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism. They have formed their own 4-H Club -…
— Spiro T. Agnew
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Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice.
— Abraham Lincoln
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