We must do our business faithfully, without trouble or disquiet, recalling our mind to God mildly, and with tranquility, as often as we find it wandering from him.


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I knew nothing of the real life of a musician, but I seemed to see myself standing in front of great...
LAWRENCE WELK
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel. If you were really sensible, you...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Perhaps our only sickness is to desire a truth which we cannot bear rather than to rest content with...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love l...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Guilt always hurries towards its complement, punishment; only there does its satisfaction lie.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two compani...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.
LAWRENCE DURRELL
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which ...
LAWRENCE DURRELL
Everything from airplanes to kitchen blenders and even chopsticks comes with an instruction manual. ...
LAWRENCE KUTNER
I just kind of opened up and said, 'I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
Technology has already opened the door a bit wider for filmmakers, with smaller digital cameras maki...
SHARON LAWRENCE
The dramatic modernization of the Asian economies ranks alongside the Renaissance and the Industrial...
LAWRENCE SUMMERS
Used as kites, these rigid stable aeroplanes are superior to the very best cellular kites I can make...
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE
You might see some of the movies that I'm in where there are shades of drama or whatever, but fo...
MARTIN LAWRENCE
I try to always step up to the plate, be professional, be good at what I'm doing and deliver on ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE
To each his own. You like what you like. If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ...
MARTIN LAWRENCE
If you want someone who's big-boned and you like that, ain't nothing wrong with having a lit...
MARTIN LAWRENCE
I wanted to trust in my partners and the directors and producers and do the best I can to deliver wh...
MARTIN LAWRENCE
I was a B.I.G. fan. I like all of his stuff. I don't really have a favorite song. They all are g...
MARTIN LAWRENCE
If somebody pisses me off and I understand it ain't personal then I'll go to another place a...
MARTIN LAWRENCE
We grew to know the meaning of love. That is what allowed me and my family to stay close together.
MARTIN LAWRENCE
You make due with the time you have here. Hopefully when you pass on, somebody can look back and say...
MARTIN LAWRENCE
Everybody has a Big Momma: the mother or the grandmother who tells it like it is, keeps it real with...
MARTIN LAWRENCE
I don't want to sound facetious, but humour is the key to the soul. You know what I mean?
MARTIN LAWRENCE
You can be cool and at the same time respect your woman, who will hopefully become your wife, who wi...
MARTIN LAWRENCE
No one is immune to the trials and tribulations of life.
MARTIN LAWRENCE
Over and over I marvel at the blessings of my life: Each year has grown better than the last.
LAWRENCE WELK
I had to learn how to chop wood actually - I don't think my dad would have let me go chop wood i...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
It's a curious thing that the mental life seems to flourish with its roots in spite, ineffable and f...
D.H. LAWRENCE
I like to write when I feel spiteful. It is like having a good sneeze."

(Letter to Cyn...
D.H. LAWRENCE
Mama is my chance to be a stand-up comedian. In my mind, it's my chance to be Chris Rock.
VICKI LAWRENCE
When you don't have anybody to take care of you, then you could go both ways: You could do whate...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
I want to play a character I've never been before-a crazy serial killer like Charlize Theron in ...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'A...
JENNIFER LAWRENCE
Constantly risking absurdity and death whenever he performs above the heads of his audience, the poe...
LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI
Even though I was in close proximity to everything, it never really dawned on me to pursue a career ...
VICKI LAWRENCE
I was with - he wasn't the president then, but - Barack Obama, when he was running, in Washingto...
LAWRENCE BENDER
Hillary Clinton would raise taxes on so-called rich people, corporations, capital gains, financial t...
LAWRENCE KUDLOW
A teenager's early experimentation might be minor, but it can still have a damaging effect on their ...
ANDREW LAWRENCE
By affecting basic brain functions, amphetamine may expose experimenting teenagers to an increased r...
ANDREW LAWRENCE
As well as activating the brain's reward system, which is involved in addiction, amphetamine also af...
ANDREW LAWRENCE
Although many teenagers experiment with drugs, most don't become regular users but may try the drug ...
ANDREW LAWRENCE
The wings are moved several times by hand to charge the crank chamber with mixture, which flows on t...
LAWRENCE HARGRAVE