"Let us hope, that a kind Providence will……" — Peter De Vries
"Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring."
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75 Quotes by Peter De Vries
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When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the…
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I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
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We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my…
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We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
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Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask.…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.…
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Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.
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Life is a crowded superhighway with bewildering cloverleaf exits on which a man is liable to find himself speeding back…
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Every novel should have a beginning, a middle, and an end.
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Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under…
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Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another…
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We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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The act of dying is one of the acts of life.
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Accustom yourself continually to make many acts of love, for they enkindle and melt the soul.
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What matters is to live in the present, live now, for every moment is now. It is your thoughts and…
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We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs.…
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A speculator is a man who observes the future, and acts before it occurs.
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Courage that grows from constitution often forsakes a man when he has occasion for it; courage which arises from a…
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The real 'action' in the liturgy in which we are all supposed to participate is the action of God himself.…
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Every individual acts and suffers in accordance with his peculiar teleology, which has all the inevitability of fate, so long…
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He who desires, but acts not, breeds pestilence.
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Most recently, terrorist forces have captured Israeli soldiers and fired rockets into Israeli cities - both unprovoked. These acts of…
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