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“It is quite deplorable to see how many rational creatures, or at least who are thought so, mistake suffering for sanctity, and think a sad face and a gloomy habit of mind propitious offerings to that Deity whose works are all light and lustre and harmony and loveliness.”

Thinking Mind Light Faces Suffering Mistake Sadness Habit Creatures Harmony Rational Offering Deities Gloomy Sanctity Loveliness Habits Of Mind Sad Face

Author:Sydney, Lady Morgan

“We find that the child who does not yet have language at his command, the child under two and a half, will be able to cooperate with our education if we go easy on the "blocking" techniques, the outright prohibitions, the "no's" and go heavy on "substitution" techniques, that is, the redirection or certain impulses and the offering of substitute satisfactions.”

Ifs Children Doe Two Able Certain Language Easy Half Discipline Satisfaction Heavy Technique Command Block Impulse Substitutes Offering Prohibition Substitution Redirection

Author:Selma Fraiberg

“A fast is not necessarily something we offer God, but it assists us in offering ourselves”

Offers Offering

Book:7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

Source: 7: An Experimental Mutiny Against Excess

“If we are truly created equal than truly the love we commit to one another must be equal as well, this ruling will strengthen all of our communities by offering to all same sex couples the dignity of marriage across this great land.”

Ifs Love Wells Sex Community Land Couple Equal Dignity Commit Offering Ruling Our Community

Author:Barack Obama

“The world can use more light and less noise. More solvers and fewer blamers. More folks showing a better way and fewer folks complaining about how much better things used to be. More folks offering help and fewer folks wringing their hands about the problems. More hope bringers and fewer hope killers.”

World Way Helping Use Problem Hands Light Used Folks Complaining Noise Used To Be Fewer Offering Killers Better Ways

Author:Steve Goodier

“Nothing is as fast as the speed of trust. Nothing is as fulfilling as a relationship of trust. Nothing is as inspiring as an offering of trust. Nothing is as profitable as the economics of trust. Nothing has more influence than a reputation of trust.”

Influence Economics Speed Reputation Offering Fulfilling Profitable

Author:Stephen Covey

“If I'm doing something as an offering unto the Lord, I want to give God my best.”

Ifs Want Giving Lord Offering

Author:Stephen Kendrick

“Companies watch what consumers are doing like a hawk. Just as one letter to a politician can signal an insipient problem, for companies, a trend where people are beginning to switch away from one of their key products to a rival offering on the basis of either claims or real improvements on performance, that's significant.”

People Real Problem Company Watches Products Keys Politician Letters Performances Bases Claims Improvement Significant Consumers Trends Offering Signals Rivals Hawks

Author:John Elkington

“I'd rather enjoy the money, and then be buried, offering my body back to the flora and fauna of which I have dined my whole life.”

Whole Body Enjoy Whole Life Buried Offering Flora Flora And Fauna

Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson

“Procrastination is something you do yourself. You know: "I gotta sharpen these pencils before I start. I got 20 pencils, they're looking kinda dull." Well, the pencils aren't calling you and alluring you and inviting you and offering you anything. They're just sitting there. You're the one who's procrastinating.”

Knows Wells Calling Sitting Dull Offering Procrastination Pencils Inviting Procrastinating Alluring

Author:Michael Chabon

“If those civil rights groups are going into those orphanages and offering to look after those children, then they have every right to make a stink about it. But they're not. They're not offering a solution.”

Ifs Looks Children Rights Groups Solutions Civil Rights Offering Stink Orphanage

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“I was always reticent about taking offerings from my father, and I think it was maybe because I felt the caveat was that I had to give something back, and I didn't like that position. But I've never felt incumbent on anyone to kind of keep them lifted or to support them, necessarily. I do that by wish or by option.”

Thinking Giving Kind Father Wish Felt Support Position Offering Incumbents

Author:Anjelica Huston

“If we were built, what were we built for? ... Why do we have this amazing collection of sinews, senses, and sensibilities? Were we really designed in order to recline on the couch, extending our wrists perpendicular to the floor so we can flick through the television's offerings? Were we really designed in order to shop some more so the economy can grow some more? Or were we designed to experience the great epiphanies that come from contact with each other and with the natural world?”

Ifs World Order Grows Natural Economy Television Built Senses Contact Collections Shops Offering Sensibility Consumerism Natural World Couches Wrists Epiphany Overconsumption Extending

Author:Bill McKibben

“True worship has less to do with offering sacrifices than with being a sacrifice ourselves.”

Faith Religious Sacrifice Worship Offering True Worship

Author:Mike Mason

“AT&T is now offering a new service that allows you to pay your bills through your TV screen by using your remote control. So instead of saying, "The check's in the mail," people are going to say, "Hey, I wanted to pay, but I couldn't find the remote."”

People Humor Wanted Funny Pay Tvs Bills Screens Checks Hey Mail Offering Remote Control

Author:Jay Leno

“The value of the sport and the value of sports in general, with the life lessons, the ups and downs. The depth of the life experience, what athletes are actually offering to us when they come out and play, if you look at a season and go moment by moment.”

Ifs Looks Play Moments Values Sports Lessons Seasons Depth Athlete Life Lesson Life Experience Offering Ups & Downs Sports In General

Author:Willi Smith

“When we approach legal reform work, we can ask questions like: Will this provide actual relief to people facing violence or harm or will it primarily be a symbolic change? Will this divide our constituency by offering relief only to people with certain privileged statuses (such as people with lawful immigration status, people with jobs, married people, etc.)?”

People Jobs Certain Asks Violence Approach Married Harm Immigration Reform Relief Etc Divides Offering Privileged Symbolic

Author:Dean Spade

“I do think that the long poem speaks for an inner need for continuity. We live in a time of so many losses, disruptions, and distractions, that the need for a sense of the ongoing is quite real. The long poem is very satisfying in offering the psyche a model of coherence.”

Thinking Needs Long Real Speak Loss Models Satisfying Distraction Offering Ongoing Continuity Disruption Coherence

Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming

“One of the unfortunate things about creative writing courses is that they make people impatient. People feel that they have prepared themselves and that they must now do it. In fact there are positive incentives for doing so - universities are offering degrees for writing novels.”

People Feels Writing Facts Courses Novel Creative Degrees Prepared University Offering Unfortunate Creative Writing Incentives Impatient Unfortunate Things

Author:Robert Dessaix

“I do love listening to singles casually, but that moment, the thing I'm mining the singles for, is something that makes me dig deeper and find a layered offering that allows for discovery after discovery.”

Moments Listening Discovery Deeper That Moment Offering Singles Mining Dig Deep

Author:Crowder

“Creating a high-functioning education system requires all the strategies involved in building high-functioning organisations anywhere. It requires a deliberate and aggressive strategy to ensure extraordinary talent at every level of the system, from the superintendentcy to district offices to principalships to classrooms. It requires building systems for accountability; offering parents the ability to choose their public schools is the ultimate form of this. It requires building a strong culture at the system and school levels based on high expectations for student achievement.”

“That's definitely true! It was before my father died, so I can't attribute it to an obsession with death. When I was seven, I loved those old Sherlock Holmes movies with Basil Rathbone. The Scarlet Claw was one of my faves. And I loved all the Halloween's and that film about the haunted house... Burnt Offerings, with Oliver Reed. Every birthday party was a slumber party and we'd watch horror films.”

“I have come with one medicinal herb that I am offering as a remedy to India's problems. And that medicinal herb is 'development'.”

Problem Development India Offering Remedy Herbs Medicinal Herbs

Author:Narendra Modi

“We do a stewardship series every Sunday...at offering time.”

Christian Leadership Church Series Sunday Offering Stewardship

Author:Johnny Hunt

“Prayer is the offering up of our desires to God in the name of Christ, for such things as are agreeable to his will. It is an offering of our desires. Desires are the soul and life of prayer; words are but the body; now as the body without the soul is dead, so are prayers unless they are animated with our desires.”

Soul Body Desire Names Christ Prayer Offering Animated

Author:Thomas Watson

“Remarkable marketing is the art of building things worth noticing right into your product or service. Not slapping on marketing as a last-minute add-on, but understanding that if your offering itself isn’t remarkable, it’s invisible.”

Ifs Art Lasts Understanding Minutes Building Products Add Marketing Invisible Remarkable Offering Noticing Last Minute Slapping Building Things

Author:Seth

“Like the theater, offering food and hospitality to people is a matter of showmanship, and no matter how simple the performance, unless you do it well, with love and originality, you have a flop on your hands.”

People Wells Matter Hands Simple Performances Theater Originality Offering Hospitality Showmanship

Book:Delights and Prejudices

Source: Delights and Prejudices

“I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.”

People Should Stills Age Film Roles Offers Grateful I Realized Offering Be Grateful

Author:Candice Bergen

“If it be the pleasure of Heaven that my country shall require the poor offering of my life, the victim shall be ready, at the appointed hour of sacrifice, come when that hour may. But while I do live, let me have a country, and that a free country!”

Ifs May Country Heaven Hours Pleasure Poor Sacrifice Ready Let Me Victim Offering Free Country

Author:John Adams

“Whilst America hath been the land of promise to Europeans, and their descendants, it hath been the vale of death to millions of the wretched sons of Africa... Whilst we were offering up vows at the shrine of Liberty... whilst we swore irreconcilable hostility to her enemies... whilst we adjured the God of Hosts to witness our resolution to live free or die... we were imposing on our fellow men, who differ in complexion from us, a slavery, ten thousand times more cruel than the utmost extremity of those grievances and oppressions, of which we complained.”

“Now that rates are moving up, we're seeing more aggressive offerings from banks.”

Moving Seeing Rate Aggressive Offering Aggression Moving Up

Author:Robert Hughes

“The basic paradox about sex is that it always seems to be offering more than it can deliver. A glimpse of a girl undressing through a lighted bedroom window induces a vision of ecstatic delight, but in the actual process of persuading the girl into bed, the vision somehow evaporates.”

Seems Girl Sex Process Vision Bed Window Delight Paradox Offering Bedroom Glimpse Ecstatic Persuading Undressing

Book:The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders

Source: The Misfits: A Study of Sexual Outsiders

“In the '90s, we are all our own gurus, offering truth to each other. My message is that we all have a truth inside of us that we must tell. The synchronicity of life is all about becoming clear, knowing what that truth is, watching and taking advantage of the opportunity to express that truth, and knowing how to present it.”

Life Is Opportunity Knowing Clear Becoming Truth Is Messages Advantage Offering Guru Synchronicity Taking Advantage

Author:James Redfield

“There are people who are younger than I who are more uptight than I am. It's not necessarily an age thing. I mean nobody is offering me 20-year old leads any more.”

People Years Mean Age Offering Uptight

Author:Ewan McGregor

“TV is such a success nowadays because it gives back in a way that features can't. If you go to a film, you only get two hours of great storytellers and performers, and you pay top dollar for that. If you're subscribing to premium channels and you're getting all of these amazing TV shows, and you're watching them as you want, where you want, when you want, on what you want, I think that is the "the golden era of TV" in what television shows are offering to audiences. We're giving them a lot more. It's quality.”

“I'm sure at one point I will do some acting again, but it would have to be the right thing. I'm not going to do it just because people are offering it to me. Not for those box-office, bullshit, money, noncreative people. But I'll do it when it's right to do it.”

People Acting Office Boxes Right Thing Offering Bullshit Creative People Box Office

Author:Lenny Kravitz

“All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.”

Offering

Author:John Vianney

“When I came to know Mrs. Marcet personally; how often I cast my thoughts backward, delighting to connect the past and the present; how often, when sending a paper to her as a thank you offering, I thought of my first instructress.”

Knows Firsts Past Paper Casts Offering My Thoughts

Author:Michael Faraday

“It doesn't matter what product or service you're offering; there is unlimited ability to improve the quality of anything.”

Matter Ability Quality Products Offering Unlimited

Author:Tom Peters

“The plant kingdom covers the entire earth, offering our senses great pleasure and the delights of summer.”

Earth Pleasure Summer Plant Delight Senses Kingdoms Offering

Author:Carl Linnaeus

“African films should be thought of as offering as many different points of view as the film of any other different continent. Nobody would say that French film is all European film, or Italian film is all European film. And in the same way that those places have different filmmakers that speak to different issues, all the countries in Africa have that too.”

Way Should Different Country Film Speak Views Issues Point Of View Filmmaker Italian Offering Continents Different Points Of View

Author:Elvis Mitchell

“The problem with Wal-Mart is that it's a business model premised on offering the customer low prices at any cost - any cost to society, any cost to workers. They've got a lot of competition and have influenced people to follow their model through simply providing a model that is so successful at making profits.”

People Problem Successful Cost Models Lows Competition Workers Profit Customers Offering Providing Business Models

Author:Liza Featherstone

“In art and life we're always reading bodies and behaviors (and skies and skylines or whatever), constructing brief and shifting coherences, and I guess I want to capture that process of characterization and re-characterization instead of offering up a few stable, easily-summarized individuals.”

Want Art Body Reading Individual Process Sky Behavior Capture Offering Stable Shifting Coherence Characterization Skylines Art And Life

Author:Ben Lerner

“I can think of few more worthy achievements than keeping a library alive and well for a century. As far as I am concerned, one of the absolute backbones of a free society and a democracy is the library offering access to a treasure house of information to all.”

Thinking Wells I Can House Democracy Alive Century Information Achievement Concerned Absolutes Library Worthy Access Treasure Offering Free Society Backbone

Author:Gillian Roberts

“Corporatism trying to redeem itself through charity is akin to a serial killer offering to pay a fine for his crimes.”

Trying Pay Crime Fine Charity Offering Killers Serials Serial Killer Corporatism

Author:Dean Cavanagh

“Be generous with your heart! The more we spontaneously give, the more connected and enriched we will feel. What if we use each other as our living temples, and put our best offering foot forward to see what direction life points us? I believe that if we live in a state of offering - even if we think we have nothing to offer - life blesses us and we feel more at peace with who we are and what we have.”

Ifs Thinking Giving Feels Believe Heart States Use I Believe Feet Offers Connected Generous Who We Are Temples What If Bless Offering

Author:Agapi Stassinopoulos

“I'm offering myself up. I'm saying that if I have the background, the capability and the concern to do this and I'm doing this for the right reasons... but I'm not particularly interested in running for president, but I think I'd make a good president. Nowadays, the process has become much more important than I think it used to be.”

Ifs Thinking Important Reason Running Used Process President Concern Backgrounds Used To Be Capability Offering

Author:Fred Thompson

“You can’t really innovate for the past (your offering won’t be innovative and will be beaten easily by competitors). If you innovate for the future, then adoption will be slow until customers become ready. The trick is to task your insights team to provide guidance for the future present.”

Ifs Past Team Ready Tasks Insight Customers Tricks Guidance Offering Adoption Beaten Competitors Innovative

Book:Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire: A Roadmap to a Sustainable Culture of Ingenuity and Purpose

Source: Stoking Your Innovation Bonfire: A Roadmap to a Sustainable Culture of Ingenuity and Purpose

“Why? Why should the bond between a people and their baseball team be so intense? Fenway Park is a part of it, offering a physical continuum to the bond, not only because Papi can stand in the same batter's box as Teddy Ballgame, but also because a son might sit in the same wooden-slat seat as his father.”

People Should Might Father Team Son Baseball Boxes Intense Parks Seats Offering Teddy Continuum Ballgame Baseball Team Fenway Park

Book:Inside Baseball: The Best of Tom Verducci

Source: Inside Baseball: The Best of Tom Verducci

“Ultimately, the main reason that you want more women in the sciences is the same reason you want more gay men in the sciences. It's the same reason you want more Latinos or African Americans; it's because if you come at a problem from a different perspective, you will be offering a creative vision that wasn't there before.”

Ifs Men Want Different Reason Problem Vision Creative Perspective Gay African American Offering Latino Gay Men Different Perspective Creative Vision

Author:Cara Santa Maria

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