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Related When you send out a powerful thought into the universe, you send out ripples to all parts of it whic... STEPHEN RICHARDS Members of the Senate and House, if they want to send troops into war, should be forced to send a fa... WILL FERRELL I think slavery is the next thing to hell. If a person would send another into bondage, he would, it... HARRIET TUBMAN Our days are numbered. One of the primary goals in our lives should be to prepare for our last day. ... BILLY GRAHAM Give me five minutes with a person's checkbook, and I will tell you where their heart is. BILLY GRAHAM How often we commit our burdens to the Lord and then fail to trust Him by taking matters into our ow... BILLY GRAHAM I can tell you that God is alive because I talked to him this morning. BILLY GRAHAM Theology never changes. A man's heart is the same. The Gospel is the same. There have been no additi... BILLY GRAHAM If you want to write, write it. That's the first rule. And send it in, and send it in to someone... ROBERT B. PARKER You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want... CRAIG GROESCHEL News is becoming more of a conversation. You can express opinions online in real time. You don't sen... GEORGE JOHNSON With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advanc... FELIX DENNIS Sometimes, God doesn’t send you into a battle to win it; he sends you to end it. SHANNON L. ALDER A good face they say, is a letter of recommendation. O Nature, Nature, why art thou so dishonest, as... HENRY FIELDING For the multifold secret to work only one thing is necessary. You must take action. You must give. Y... JOHN KREMER [The manned launch is] sort of economic advertising, which says if our technology is reliable enough... DEAN CHENG Money is my military, each dollar a soldier. I never send my money into battle unprepared and undefe... KEVIN O'LEARY Prayer is simply a two-way conversation between you and God. BILLY GRAHAM A war is justified if you're willing to send your son. If you're not willing to send your so... JESSE VENTURA I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES If you want to send a message, try Western Union. FRANK CAPRA The IRS will send a letter if they disagree or question anything. JEAN MAPLES We're coming or you whether the Muggles like it or not, you can't miss the World Cup, only Mum and D... J.K. ROWLING I encourage people who are interested to send a letter. DOMINGO GARCIA They send stuff to you all the time. They send it to all the students. HANNA HARRIS I hate those men who would send into war youth to fight and die for them; the pride and cowardice of... MARY ROBERTS RINEHART When she's away at college we want to be able to send her a letter that says we love you and do it i... JAY SEATON Everyone with chest pains gets an EKG. Whether to send it is our discretion, but if there is any que... MIKE HUGHES If these men decided that they have to go in there and fight, I want them to send their own children... F. MURRAY ABRAHAM Protectionism is a very real danger. It is understandable that in times of a severe downturn protect... MANMOHAN SINGH Typing and read receipts make a lot of sense for messaging. You write a letter, you put it in an env... EVAN SPIEGEL We do clearly want to send a message to would-be illegal operators that it is simply not worth your ... IAN MACDONALD Getting on a plane, I told the ticket lady, "Send one of my bags to New York, send one to Los Angele... HENNY YOUNGMAN It is interesting the way you create something and send it out into the culture, and then the cultur... MARK FROST If you want to get an email to Robert Redford, you send it to his assistant, and she prints it out. ... TAYLOR SHERIDAN If you ever record it, send it to me. ARMEN KETEYIAN That can send the condition into a wild state of flare-up. FRED KAPLAN If you want a thing done, go. If not, send. The shortest answer is doing. ENGLISH PROVERB Send one plane it's a sortie; send two it's a flight; send four and it's a test of airpower. RICHARD KOHN If you really want to wind up Piers Morgan, send him a pic of Jeremy Clarkson. KATHERINE RYAN They will send an agent to our office. We had 400 liens this year (2005). BOB CHIDLOW Crypto today is a libertarian paradise. If you send your money to the wrong place, it's gone. If... GIL PENCHINA A legitimate charity will not send you an unsolicited e-mail asking for money -- that's not how a pr... CHRIS GREEN I do still get the odd fan letter about The Good Life, clearly written by somebody aged 18, who says... FELICITY KENDAL Send them into everlasting Coventry. RALPH WALDO EMERSON The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. GEORGE SAND The artist vocation is to send light into the human heart. ROBERT ALEXANDER SCHUMANN It is asking a lot to send them in against India and players who play spin-bowling very well. DUNCAN FLETCHER Ill send my letter separate. GARY FULLER To ask for a release you need to send a formal letter - I haven't done anything like that. GREG WILLETT A lot of people here are saying we're doing to this to send a message to Washington. That's not the ... CLAIRE GUTHRIE GASTANAGA You can create a brochure out of the database, with access to the full range of PDF functions. Then ... RYAN ROSENBERG If people are working together on a project and one person starts the document using Word, then othe... MICHAEL CHERRY If you shake the box and you can hear things move, you want to repack it. And truly, the earlier you... JOANNE VETO To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ROBERT SCHUMANN To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ROBERT A. SCHUMANN She made one of her productions, 'Electra,' into an off-Broadway performance and it was so difficult... FELICIA LONDRE If you carry this resolution and follow out all its implications and do not run away from it, you wi... ANEURIN BEVAN All that we send into the lives of others comes back into our own EDWIN MARKHAM Well, the Internet is this miracle. It is an absolutely extraordinary idea that you can press a send... BARRY DILLER I had been asking the universe and God to send me a way for me to help me. Show business has been so... LOUIE ANDERSON Think not I came to send peace on the earth; I came not to send peace but a sword. BIBLE The county wants to make this right. I had my engineer send a letter to tell the county that it was ... DARRELL SMITH As far back as history records people thinking, thinking people
have been befuddled by the mysteries... LEWIS N. ROE We could send some individuals into the playoffs. JEFF TRACY And We did not send any apostle but that he should be obeyed by Allah's permission; and had they, wh... QURAN We're asking them to send the money where the people are, not where the trash is. MARK VIATOR When we fought for freedom, for the establishment of a Jewish state, we didn't send a questionna... YITZHAK SHAMIR Dear God, Please send to me the spirit of Your peace. Then send, dear Lord, the spirit of peace from... MARIANNE WILLIAMSON Sometimes shit's gotta be done and I just fuckin' do it! MANUEL MONGRAIN Being able to approach or confront the person or send them a letter is so important. If they're dead... BUD WELCH In the real world, they told you who to be, not the other way around. RHODA BELLEZA We have to send a message here to the world, BEN NELSON If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it... CRAIG GROESCHEL If you want a nation to have space exploration ambitions, you've got to send humans. NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON He said he talked to Jesus all the time. Even when he was driving his car. That killed me. I just se... J.D. SALINGER Going from having an Atari to a laptop changed everything. It allows me to work anywhere I want and ... CARY FUKUNAGA When you express gratitude for the blessings that come into your life, it not only encourages the un... STEPHEN RICHARDS I throw a spear into the darkness. That is intuition. Then I must send an army into the darkness to ... INGMAR BERGMAN A thorough inspection of someone you believed to be loveable will send you back into your shell if a... MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON Solitude, at first is scary. All you have is yourself. After a while its comforting, it knows the re... NIKKI ROWE If we can send a spaceship into orbit, we can definitely guide a bike across the gym floor with a ch... RICHARD KLEIN You don't have to live a lie. Living a lie will mess you up. It will send you into depression. I... GILBERT BAKER To send light into the darkness of men's hearts - such is the duty of the artist. ROBERT SCHUMANN It will send a signal to the Israelis. YOSSI ALPHER We have to send a message to the world that our society rejects extremism and is united against it, SHAUKAT AZIZ To send a letter is a good way to go somewhere without moving anything but your heart. PHYLLIS THEROUX You raise taxes during an economic crisis time, as we did in - back in the time of Herbert Hoover, y... JOHN MCCAIN We'll try to get a photo taken with her and send it to you. KARLA HOLLENCAMP If you'd have it done, Go: if not, Send BENJAMIN FRANKLIN This is extremely convenient if there's like a birth in the family that you want to send meals to. DIANE CHEEK Alongside my 'no email' policy, I resolve to make better use of the wonderful Royal Mail, an... TOM HODGKINSON Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for... ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Clark told me to send boiled peanuts and some rain. I said I can get boiled peanuts, but I don't kno... PATRICIA ANDERSON Once your poems are completed, you send them into the world. You don't write for a coterie of ot... EDWARD HIRSCH This makes a lot of sense. Our group [the American Association of Attorney-CPAs] needs greater acces... E. MARTIN DAVIDOFF Zinzendorf and the Moravians proved that an entire communion of believers (call it a church or a den... JAMES REAPSOME I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one. GOODMAN ACE I would have answered your letter sooner, but you didn't send one GOODMAN ACE We are all so impressed with the book The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, that a petition has been circula... LONE STAR
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STEVEN WRIGHT I guess my first digital movie was 'Tintin' because 'Tintin' has no film step. There... STEVEN SPIELBERG Well, luckily with animation, fantasy is your friend. STEVEN SPIELBERG Nothing is cooler and more attractive than a big comeback, and that'll be me. STEVEN ADLER It's hard to find five musicians who know what the other is going to do before they do it. And t... STEVEN ADLER I'm not gonna be a slave. I'm a rock n' roller. STEVEN ADLER You can have all the riches and success in the world, but if you don't have your health, you hav... STEVEN ADLER I just had lunch with Slash two days ago. He loves Axl. He holds no grudges towards him. Twenty year... STEVEN ADLER The only thing I want to be satisfied in life is to do one reunion tour with Guns N' Roses. I wo... STEVEN ADLER