Frederick William Robertson Quotes

Pray till prayer makes you forget your own wish, and leave it or merge it in God's will.

Frederick William Robertson

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: clergyman
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: February 3, 1816 - August 15, 1853

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I mean, it's fine when you're a kid and someone runs into the playground and goes, 'I've got this great game of pretend,' and you play... As an actor, getting to play, getting to use your imagination and be childish - it is weird but it's wonderful.

Max Irons

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Temperament can really take a toll on the voice. If you get tight in your body with the acting, then you can get tight in your voice. And then you can get tired, and you can damage yourself vocally.

Sondra Radvanovsky

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Allowing yourself to smile takes 99% of the effort.

Simon Travaglia

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Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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I ended up becoming so self-conscious that my songs stopped being about my life and started being about what people thought of my music. And that was really bad.

Liz Phair

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Thanks to former President George W. Bush - remember the compassionate conservative? - I have a good name for the fundamental principle that should guide the Democratic alternative: compassionate deficit reduction.

Christina Romer

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I think the blues is the best literature that we as blacks have created since we've been here. I call it our 'sacred book.' What I've attempted to do is to mine that field, to mine those cultural ideas and attitudes and give them to my characters.

August Wilson

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Every week in the Senate, I give a speech telling my colleagues it is time to wake up to the reality of a changing climate.

Sheldon Whitehouse

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I'm not interested in going to casting after casting, trying to get into that game. So there is a part of me that knows that I will do more characters, even if I have to produce those projects myself to get those projects out there. If the right characters come along, I would love to. I would jump at the chance.

Sharlto Copley

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I am aiming my books at anybody with no economics background.

Tim Harford

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Living is a sickness to which sleep provides relief every sixteen hours. It's a palliative. The remedy is death.

Nicolas Chamfort

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We only have so much energy for our work, for our relationships, for ourselves. A smart person understands this and guards it carefully. Meanwhile, idiots focus on marginal productivity hacks and gains while they leak out energy each passing day.

Ryan Holiday

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