Matthew Simpson Quotes

Human nature is the same now as when Adam hid from the presence of God; the consciousness of wrong makes us unwilling to meet those whom we have offended.

Matthew Simpson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: June 21, 1811 - June 18, 1884

Topics

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I've always been sort of drawn to storytelling, and I was always very playful growing up.

Megan Boone

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Ensuring all kids have access to an effective, talented teacher needs to be a national priority.

Michael Bennet

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Music was very influential on me as a kid.

Steve Earle

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I haven't run across anyone in Georgia who is not regretful and repentant of man's inhumanity when you talk about owning one another.

Sonny Perdue

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I'm a driven perfectionist, very self-critical.

Marya Hornbacher

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After high school, I worked as a messenger boy at a local bank. I was miserable. I felt like Robin Hood chained in the Sheriff of Nottingham's dungeon. As a would-be writer, I thought it was a catastrophe. As a bank employee, I could barely add or subtract and had to count on my fingers.

Lloyd Alexander

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Hypersegregated inner-city schools - in which one finds no more than five or ten white children, at the very most, within a student population of as many as 3,000 - are the norm, not the exception, in most northern urban areas today.

Jonathan Kozol

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A little tough talk in the midst of a campaign or as part of a presidential debate cannot obscure a record of 30 years of being on the wrong side of defense issues.

Dick Cheney

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When you're making something big, whether it's long-form fiction or a big piece of software, whatever that is, you're having a very intimate and extended conversation with the work materials themselves.

David Wroblewski

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I've always been fascinated with the stealing of innocence. It's the most heinous crime, and certainly a capital crime if there ever was one.

Clint Eastwood

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There is one person who can help solve 'writer's block'. His name is Mr. Johnnie Walker.

Ashwin Sanghi

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You won't see a picture of me rolling around in a gutter, but I sometimes have a photo taken when I'm leaving a club looking tired, and there'll be headlines saying, 'She's out of control'. You can't prepare yourself for those things; you just have to shrug them off.

Pixie Lott

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