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Unfortunately, many young believers - and some older ones, too - do not know that there will be times in every person's life when circumstances don't add up - when God doesn't appear to make sense. This aspect of the Christian faith is not well advertised. James Dobson
Life God Faith Will Young Sense Older Christian Every Too Add Circumstances Some Know Well Make Up Times Person Unfortunately Aspect Many Appear Believers Christian Faith
All sacrifices of common sense, and all recourse to plausible political combinations, whether of individuals or of men, are uniformly made at the expense of the majority. James Fenimore Cooper
Political Made Men Sense Recourse Sacrifices Individuals Combinations Majority Expense Common Whether Common Sense Plausible
Imitation, if it is not forgery, is a fine thing. It stems from a generous impulse, and a realistic sense of what can and cannot be done. James Fenton
Sense Realistic Imitation Fine Stems Generous Forgery Done Impulse Cannot Thing
For poets today or in any age, the choice is not between freedom on the one hand and abstruse French forms on the other. The choice is between the nullity and vanity of our first efforts, and the developing of a sense of idiom, form, structure, metre, rhythm, line - all the fundamental characteristics of this verbal art. James Fenton
Today Art Freedom Age First Sense Other Our Characteristics Vanity Structure Poets Developing Between French Idiom Verbal Line Hand Efforts Any Form Rhythm Forms Choice Fundamental
One problem we face comes from the lack of any agreed sense of how we should be working to train ourselves to write poetry. James Fenton
Problem Face Sense Ourselves Poetry Write How Train Any Lack Should Working Agreed
I don't need a vacation in the traditional sense, like I would if I had a job I hated. James Franco
Job Sense Would Hated Had Like Traditional Traditional Sense Vacation Need
I will not allow people to impose rules on me that don't make sense to me. And I live and work very much outside the literary world and the literary system. What they think and what they believe and what their rules are mean nothing to me. James Frey
Work Me People World Will Sense Nothing Live Believe Think Rules System Allow Outside Make Impose Very Literary Mean Much
Acting is just common sense. It isn't hard if you put yourself aside and just do what the writer wrote. James Garner
You Yourself Sense Writer Put Wrote Just Common Common Sense Aside Acting Hard
Scientifically, information is a choice - a yes-or-no choice. In a broader sense, information is everything that informs our world - writing, painting, music, money. James Gleick
Music Writing World Money Sense Painting Our Everything Broader Our World Scientifically Information Informs Choice
It's weird, because American films in the 1930s and '40s, particularly melodramas, were made for woman, from Bette Davis to Joan Crawford to Barbara Stanwyck to Katherine Hepburn, and for some reason we've taken a step backward in this sense. James Gray
Woman Made Sense Films Joan Joan Crawford Backward Some Bette Bette Davis Davis Step Taken Weird Particularly Because Were American Barbara Reason Katherine Hepburn
In the more recently disclosed field of history in the ancient Near East, however, there has been no such sense of responsibility displayed by historians either in Europe or America. James Henry Breasted
History Responsibility Sense Field Ancient East Has-Been More However Been Historians America Either Europe Displayed Near Recently
When I'm with other people who inspire my silliness or sense of humor, I'm funny. When I sit down to write, it's hard not to be funny. James Howe
Funny Sense Of Humor People Inspire Humor Sit Sense Down Other Silliness Write Hard Who
Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality. James Joyce
Sense Poetry Most Always Revolt Artifice Against Fantastic Apparently Even Actuality
You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world. James L. Brooks
You World Become Sense Bad Bad Thing Obsessed Movie Whole Serve Thing
Maxims are the condensed good sense of nations. James Mackintosh
Good Sense Good Sense Condensed Maxims Nations
I've always wanted to be a winner, the best player, the one that everyone is talking about. I'm greedy in that sense. James Maddison
Best Winner Greedy Sense Everyone About Talking Always Wanted Player
There is a sense of emptiness when you finish any film because you're empty and you can't give anything more to it anymore. James Marsh
You Sense Give Finish More Emptiness Empty Because Any Anymore Anything Film
When I was younger, I was ambitious. Now I'm not ambitious anymore. I just want to be happy. Does that make sense? James McBride
Be Happy Happy Sense Make Does Ambitious Just Want Anymore Younger Now
My mother tried her best to give us a sense of self-esteem. James McBride
Best Mother Sense Tried Give Self-Esteem Us Her
Arthur Young's Reflexive Universe - fascinating but too schematic to fit into my scheme. The most I could hope for was a sense of the vocabulary and some possible images. James Merrill
Hope Young Sense Universe Too Possible Some Vocabulary Could Schematic Scheme Most Fit Arthur Fascinating Images
As I flew back from New Zealand to bury my mother, it occurred to me that no matter how harrowing her loss was and how keenly it will always be felt, there was, nevertheless, a sense of relief that my father, sisters and I could say a final goodbye after the longest goodbye and relief that my mum had finally been released. James Nesbitt
Me Mother Matter Father Will Sense Final Back Finally Harrowing Say Released Relief Could Had Goodbye Longest Nevertheless New Felt Always How Occurred Been Loss Sisters After New Zealand Bury Flew Zealand Mum Her
The basic architecture of Dodd-Frank makes sense. At the same time, as a number of regulators and legislators have observed, the act was a complex effort that produced thousands of pages of rules. James P. Gorman
Time Architecture Sense Complex Rules Thousands Observed Dodd-Frank Makes Effort Same Same Time Legislators Produced Act Pages Basic Number
I don't think architecture should be considered as an art form in the first instance. Whenever I say that, it makes people really angry. But this is a very political profession in the Grecian sense. I believe there have to be reasons for every building, and that the ideas should not be self-referential. James Polshek
Art Angry People Architecture Political First Building Sense Believe Every Think Considered Say Instance Ideas Makes Art Form Very Whenever Form Really Should Reasons Profession
Anyone who lives like a modern aristocracy, the last thing they exhibit is a sense of gratitude. Me, I'm very fortunate. James Ransone
Me Gratitude Sense Aristocracy Like Exhibit Very Modern Anyone Fortunate Who Lives Thing Last
What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us. James Russell Lowell
Time Book Old Sense Security Criticized Which Us
Being out of a job can erode people's confidence and their sense of possibility; and employers, often unfairly, tend to take long-term unemployment as a signal that something is wrong. James Surowiecki
Confidence People Job Sense Signal Possibility Out Something Tend Take Wrong Long-Term Employers Unemployment Often Unfairly Being
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