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Lyman Abbott Quotes

Religion is not a conclusion of the reason.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: author
Nationality: american
Birth: December 18, 1835 - October 22, 1922

Topics

Religion Reason Conclusion

For that story, I took as my subject a young woman whom I got to know over the course of a couple of visits. I never saw her having any health problems - but I knew she wanted to be married.

Health Woman Story Problems Young

We ought not to forget that the government, through all its departments, judicial as well as others, is administered by delegated and responsible agents; and that the power which really controls, ultimately, all the movements, is not in the agents, but those who elect or appoint them.

John C. Calhoun

Power Government Forget Responsible

I look for something that can challenge me or makes me ever so slightly afraid - fearful of how I am going to approach it - then I'll go for it. If the project appears linear or predictable, then I'll usually give it a miss. Anything that involves me being stretched as an actor, I go for.

Challenge I Am Me Look Go Actor

Modesty and unselfishness - these are the virtues which men praise - and pass by.

Men Praise Modesty Pass Virtues

All male roles are written in a way where you just hide what's going on inside you, and all female roles are written in a way where they expose everything.

Stellan Skarsgard

You Hide Way Inside Everything Just

I was in Hiroshima with my assistant, and I said to him, 'You know, I've done close to a thousand shows with Yes. I think I'm done. I don't think I can do another one.' I went back to L.A. and left the band and got into film.

Think You Back I Can Know Done

It just felt like the right time to focus on solo material.

Time Focus Right Time Right Solo

Even though it was six o'clock, there was no sense of approaching dawn.

Mary Higgins Clark

Dawn No Sense Sense Six Even Though

The music we do is weaved together through stories and life experiences. When people come to hear us, I hope they are are uplifted and that we give them a lot to take home.

Life Home Music Hope Together Take

I'll say initially acting was my first love, and that's what I pursued. But then, so far as even my first day on a film set, and just watching how things were set up, I just said, 'I think I want to be in charge.' I am very much type-A. I am a bit of a control freak.

Love Day I Am Control Think Acting

How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?

William Shakespeare

Patience Poor Did How Heal Degrees

It is an amazing feature in the French character that they will let themselves be led away so easily by bad counsels and yet return again so quickly. It is certain that as these people have, out of their misery, treated us so well, we are the more bound to work for their happiness.

Marie Antoinette

Work Happiness Character People Bad

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