Easter Quotes - Page 11

• The regional security in the Middle East cannot be further compromised by an Iranian loose cannon.

  Russ Carnahan

  Middle East, Cannons, Iranian

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• People in San Francisco and the East Bay have shown interest, done interviews, and have come to shows. I guess that the news travels fast out of this island that we are on.

  Joanna Newsom

  Islands, San Francisco, People

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Today's global landscape is increasingly interconnected. China and the Middle East play critical roles towards international peace and security.

  Rick Larsen

  Play, Middle East, Roles

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• I am optimistic that peace can be achieved in the region because I believe that every society on earth can be free and that if freedom comes to the Middle East, there can be peace.

  Natan Sharansky

  Peace, Believe, Optimistic

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• Bill and Hillary will spend Easter with her brothers Hugh and Tony and Roger Clinton. They have a family ritual at all holiday dinners. After they sit down, they hold hands, close their eyes, and get their stories straight.

  Argus Hamilton

  Brother, Holiday, Eye

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• I moved up over Lower East Side and I was adopted by eight foster parents; I lived all over New York City with these parents, man, till I was about ten years old.

  Gregory Corso

  New York, Men, Eight

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• We thus see that the Greeks of the early ages knew little of any real people except those to the east and south of their own country, or near the coast of the Mediterranean.

  Thomas Bulfinch

  Country, Real, People

  Thomas Bulfinch (2015). “Stories of Gods and Heroes”, p.6, Thomas Bulfinch

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• The East India Company's domination of the Indian economy was based on its private army.

  Robert Trout

  Army, India, Economy

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• Amin knew that neither West nor East would criticize him for fear that he would support the other side. He felt he was untouchable and he said so openly.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  Support, West, Sides

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• We have to fight radical Islam wherever it exists. It’s in Afghanistan, it’s in Saudi Arabia, throughout the Middle-East in big numbers and it’s in the United States.

  Tom Tancredo

  Fighting, Numbers, Islam

  "An Interview With Congressman Tom Tancredo (R – CO)". Interview with John Hawkins, rightwingnews.com. February 2012.

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• There would be no Christmas if there had not been Easter. The babe Jesus of Bethlehem would be but another baby without the redeeming Christ of Gethsemane and Calvary, and the triumphant fact of the Resurrection.

  Gordon B. Hinckley

  Christmas, Baby, Jesus

  "The Wondrous and True Story of Christmas" by Gordon B. Hinckley, www.lds.org. December 2000.

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• We are going to set up a branch of the St Petersburg Mariinsky Theatre here [on the Far Easter]. We are also planning to open local branches of the Hermitage Museum and the Vaganova Academy of Russian Ballet.

  Vladimir Putin

  Museums, Ballet, Theatre

  Source: thesaker.is

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• We Christians do not believe that Jesus Christ was the only one that ever rose from the dead. We believe that every death-bed is a resurrection; that from every grave the stone, is rolled away.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Christian, Jesus, Believe

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• Was it not most meet that a woman should first see the risen Saviour? She was first in the transgression; let her be first in the justification. In yon garden she was first to work our wo; let her in that other garden be the first to see Him who works our weal. She takes first the apple of that bitter tree which brings us all our sorrow; let her be the first to see the Mighty Gardener, who has planted a tree which brings forth fruit unto everlasting life.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Garden, Apples, Tree

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• This, then, is the doctrine of the resurrection. We do not believe--at least I do not--that law has been rudely violated in one extraordinary and unparalleled episode. We believe that a universal law of life, overmastering death, and always superior to it, has had once a visible witness.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Believe, Law, Doctrine

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• How many there are ... who imagine that because Jesus paid it all, they need pay nothing, forgetting that the prime object of their salvation was that they should follow in the footsteps of Jesus Christ in bringing back a lost world to God.

  Lottie Moon

  Jesus, Missionary, Needs

  Lottie Moon, Keith Harper (2002). “Send the Light: Lottie Moon's Letters and Other Writings”, p.224, Mercer University Press

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• To Him I owe my life and breath, And all the joys I have; He makes me triumph over death, And saves me from the grave.

  Samuel Stennett

  Joy, Triumph, Graves

  Samuel Stennett (1824). “The works ...: now first collected into a body: with some account of his life and writings”, p.539

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• I said, 'The nice thing about Alzheimer's is you get to hide your own Easter eggs.'

  John McCain

  Nice, Alzheimer's, Eggs

  "McCain's humor often backfires" by Ben Smith, www.politico.com. July 17, 2008.

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• Russia is Germany's most important neighbor in the East, and it will remain so.

  Helmut Kohl

  Russia, Important, Germany

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• It would be so nice to have the luxury just to laze. So nice not to have to always get up and get dressed for some occasion. Always having to move from here to there, where everything is scheduled and even having lunch with my kids on their Easter break has to be slotted in. Maybe one day...

  Benazir Bhutto

  Nice, Moving, Kids

  "Destiny's daughter". Interview with Ginny Dougary, www.thetimes.co.uk. April 28, 2007.

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• So much of our attention is trained on the Middle East these days, but we cannot ignore East Asia.

  Lee H. Hamilton

  Middle East, Attention, Asia

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• Am I really gonna deny someone the opportunity of a lifetime just because they met me 5 easters early?

  Zach Braff

  Opportunity, Lifetime, Deny

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• We decided to set our direct-action program around the Easter season, realizing that, with exception of Christmas, this was the largest shopping period of the year. Knowing that a strong economic withdrawal program would be the by-product of direct action.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Inspirational, Strong, Years

  Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (2013). “The Essential Martin Luther King, Jr.: "I Have a Dream" and Other Great Writings”, p.88, Beacon Press

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• I think Easter is most profoundly about meaning, not mechanism.

  Katharine Jefferts Schori

  Thinking, Mechanism

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• When one of the down Easters boasted of not having any gray hair, but who was bald, Dad told the story of how St. Peter had given his choice of getting bald or getting gray and he chose the latter. Have never smoked, chewed nor used tea coffee or liquor except for medicinal purposes. The want of it is more than the worth of it.

  Hal Turner

  Dad, Coffee, Hair

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