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- Boughton says he has more ideas about heaven every day. He said, "Mainly I just think about the splendors of the world and multiply by…
- The Lord is more constant and far more extravagant than it seems to imply. Wherever you turn your eyes the world can shine like transfiguration.…
- I’m writing this in part to tell you that if you ever wonder what you’ve done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or…
- Memory can make a thing seem to have been much more than it was.
- It all means more than I can tell you. So you must not judge what I know by what I find words for.
- ...if you ever wonder what you've done in your life, and everyone does wonder sooner or later, you have been God's grace to me, a…
- I've developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by far, than…
- That odd capacity for destitution, as if by nature we ought to have so much more than nature gives us. As if we are shockingly…
- It is an amazing thing to watch people laugh, the way it sort of takes them over. Sometimes they really do struggle with it .…
- Everything that falls upon the eye is apparition, a sheet dropped over the world's true workings. The nerves and the brain are tricked, and one…
- Theologians talk about a prevenient grace that precedes grace itself and allows us to accept it. I think there must also be a prevenient courage…
- A little too much anger, too often or at the wrong time, can destroy more than you would ever imagine.
- There is more beauty than our eyes can bear, precious things have been put into our hands and to do nothing to honor them is…
- My family was pious and Presbyterian mainly because my grandfather was pious and Presbyterian, but that was more of an inherited intuition than an actual…
- One of the things about writing fiction is that you create people that you feel, more or less, as though you know.
- I was read to as a small child, I read on my own as soon as I could, and I recall being more or less…
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle