devo Quotes and Quotations
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devo Quotes and Quotations
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An infallible method of conciliating a tiger is to allow oneself to be devoured. Konrad Adenauer | top
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You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7. Joan Van Ark | top
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I have devoted my energies to the study of the scriptures, observing monastic discipline, and singing the daily services in church; study, teaching, and writing have always been my delight. Venerable Bede | top
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For a devotee or lover, the being, worshipped or loved, will always be the only one for her or him. Lionel Blue | top
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A man cannot make a pair of shoes rightly unless he do it in a devout manner. Thomas Carlyle | top
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The average person puts only 25% of his energy and ability into his work. The world takes off its hat to those who put in more than 50% of their capacity, and stands on its head for those few and far between souls who devote 100%. Andrew Carnegie | top
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I have moved from certainty to doubt, from devotion to rebellion. Phil Donahue | top
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The devout have laid out gardens in the desert. Robert Duncan | top
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In every religion there is an element of the supernatural, varying with the influence of pure reason over its devotees. Charles Eastman | top
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I am happy for people to talk about my pictures, but I wish devoutly that I was not expected to talk about them myself. Howard Hodgkin | top
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I further value this gift as it gave me an opportunity to accept this distinguished honor in a country so devoted to this cause and whose history marks a wonderful chapter in world development. Frank B. Kellogg | top
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O blessed Saviour, give me grace like Thee, to make Religion my first, and chiefest care, and devoutly to observe, all solemn times, and all holy Rites, which relate to Thy worship. Thomas Ken | top
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Now our whole activity is devoted to God, and our whole life, since we are bent on progress in divine things. Origen | top
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He came by a leap to the goal of purpose, not by the toilsome steps of reason. On the instant his headlong spirit declared his purpose: this was the one being for him in all the world: at this altar he would light a lamp of devotion, and keep it burning forever. Gilbert Parker | top
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The work of art, just like any fragment of human life considered in its deepest meaning, seems to me devoid of value if it does not offer the hardness, the rigidity, the regularity, the luster on every interior and exterior facet, of the crystal. Pope Paul VI | top
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To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted. George Ripley | top
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I can think of nothing less pleasurable than a life devoted to pleasure. John D. Rockefeller | top
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I know of nothing more despicable and pathetic than a man who devotes all the hours of the waking day to the making of money for money's sake. John D. Rockefeller | top
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I never force myself to be devout except when I feel so inspired, and never compose hymns of prayers unless I feel within me real and true devotion. Franz Schubert | top
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Obscenity, which is ever blasphemy against the divine beauty in life, is a monster for which the corruption of society forever brings forth new food, which it devours in secret. Percy Bysshe Shelley | top
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Anyone who devotes time and attention to what makes people tick, to me, is a smart person. Ron Silver | top
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When we contemplate the heroes of Christianity, and compare our feeble efforts with their astonishing performance and self devotion, we should fall into despair, were there not a few softening features, by which they are brought back to the ranks of humanity. John Strachan | top
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It is difficult to describe in short the enthusiasm and devotion provoked by and given to my research. We lived almost in poverty. I used pencils, two for a nickel, and could not buy a fountain pen, when I lost mine. Immanuel Velikovsky | top
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I'm quite sure that most writers would sustain real poetry if they could, but it takes devotion and talent. Marguerite Young | top
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Those who seek to satisfy the mind of man by hampering it with ceremonies and music and affecting charity and devotion have lost their original nature. Zhuangzi | top