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I spent six years in Bible study because I needed to get grounded. People really need to spend time in the Bible getting to know the God they claim to love.

Quote by Willie Aames about need, god, time, love, people

A good editor-and I don't claim to be one-can deduce the ideal elements of a writer's style and story and administer the necessary guidance to trick the writer into revealing it.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers, style, ideal, good, good luck

I'm a writer first and an editor second... or maybe third or even fourth. Successful editing requires a very specific set of skills, and I don't claim to have all of them at my command.

Quote by Lynn Abbey about writers

Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are equally free, they claim to be absolutely equal.

Quote by Aristotel about democracy, respect, man

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering...

For pleasures past I do not grieve, nor perils gathering near; My greatest grief is that I leave nothing that claims a tear.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about sadness, past, nothing

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly...

Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.

Quote by Taylor Caldwell about happiness

For centuries the death penalty, often accompanied by barbarous refinements, has been trying to hold crime in check; yet crime persists. Why? Because the instincts that are warring in man are not, as the law claims, constant forces in a state of...

Quote by Albert Camus about opinion, crime, criminals, force, law, state, death, man

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens...

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise.

Quote by Winston Churchill about war, rightness, contentment

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and...

Nietzsche claimed that his genius was in his nostrils and I think that is a very excellent place for it to be.

Quote by Federico Fellini about genius

Automatically multiply by 3 the number of drinks they...

Automatically multiply by 3 the number of drinks they claim to have had.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about medicine, numbers

A plea for justice is often a claim for injustice in...

A plea for justice is often a claim for injustice in one's own favor.

Quote by Edward A. Murphy about injustice, justice

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and...

Don't let anything stand in the way of you claiming and manifesting the life that you choose rather than the life you have by default.

Quote by Joy Page about life, contentment

Now obviously the propositions of the system have reference to matters of empirical fact, if they did not, they could have no claim to be called scientific.

Quote by Talcott Parsons

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

The Second World War claimed tens of millions of victims.

Quote by Jean-Marie Le Pen about war, victims, world

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until...

In my view you cannot claim to have seen something until you have photographed it.

Quote by Emile Zola about photography, contentment

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up, you'd be...

All sorts of computer errors are now turning up, you'd be surprised to know the number of doctors who claim they are treating pregnant men.

Quote by Isaac Asimov about computers, error, numbers, man, contentment

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then...

First our pleasures die - and then our hopes, and then our fears - and when these are dead, the debt is due dust claims dust - and we die too.

Quote by Percy Bysshe Shelley about life, death

I made no claims to inside stuff. I tried to give...

I made no claims to inside stuff. I tried to give information which could be documented, so the reader could check it for himself.

Quote by Isidor Feinstein Stone about work

I claim the right to manage, as I consider fit, in a very...

I claim the right to manage, as I consider fit, in a very short life, the solidarities and indifference.

Quote by Radu Mares about life, indifference, rightness

It is pointless is to ask what the soul does not require, ...

It is pointless is to ask what the soul does not require, it is pointless is to cast away what it claims as its own.

Quote by Mariana Fulger about soul, pointless

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