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• I have become convinced that if God stands a child before you, for even just a minute, it is a divine appointment.

  Wess Stafford

  Children, Divine, Minutes

  Wess Stafford (2013). “Just a Minute: In the Heart of a Child, One Moment ... Can Last Forever.”, p.17, Moody Publishers

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• I will not be making appointments to a committee that is not bipartisan.

  Nancy Pelosi

  Committees, Bipartisan

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• If I wrote a book about England I should call it What About Wednesday Week? which is what English people say when they are making what they believe to be an urgent appointment.

  Claud Cockburn

  Believe, Book, People

  Claud Cockburn (1967). “I, Claud ...: the autobiography of Claud Cockburn”

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• To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Wise, Waiting, Timing

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• I can't sit around having coffee. I have all these appointments, and a lot of my friends sit around having coffee talking about the jobs they didn't get.

  Eva Marie Saint

  Jobs, Coffee, Talking

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• You have an appointment with life, an appointment that is in the here and now.

  Nhat Hanh

  Here And Now

  Thich Nhat Hanh, Sherab Chodzin Kohn (2012). “You Are Here: Discovering the Magic of the Present Moment”, p.9, Shambhala Publications

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• The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.

  Charles Dickens

  Night, Doctors, Two

  Charles Dickens, George Cruikshank (2015). “Oliver Twist, Volume 2 (of 3) (Illustrations)”, p.48, RICHARD BENTLEY

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• The clock is a conspiracy & a crime against humanity
  and I would not own one
  except I miss appointments without it.

  Brian Andreas

  Time, Freedom, Missing

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• Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.

  Max O'Rell

  Work, Failure, Mean

  Max O'Rell (1902). “'Tween You An' I: Some Little Problems of Life”

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• There's an interesting study that says wealthy people get up three hours before their first outside appointment.

  Brian Tracy

  People, Interesting, Three

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• We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

  Aesop

  Witty, Government, Political Will

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

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• Somewhere in the world is a doctor who is worse than all other doctors...and someone has an appointment with him in the morning.

  George Carlin

  Morning, Doctors, World

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• She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

  Debbie Macomber

  Said, Interruptions, God's Will

  Debbie Macomber (2014). “Choir of Angels: Shirley, Goodness and Mercy\Those Christmas Angels\Where Angels Go”, p.339, Harlequin

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• After all the highways, and the trains, and the appointments, and the years, you end up worth more dead than alive.

  Arthur Miller

  Years, Alive, Ends

  Arthur Miller (2015). “Death of a Salesman”, p.82, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• In the zone of perdition where my youth went as if to complete its education, one would have said that the portents of an imminent collapse of the whole edifice of civilization had made an appointment.

  Guy Debord

  Civilization, Youth, Made

  "Panegyric (Volume 1)". Book by Guy Debord, 1989.

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• Chocolate is cheaper than therapy, and you don't need an appointment.

  Jill Shalvis

  Yummy, Chocolate, Needs

  Jill Shalvis (2015). “Lucky Harbor Collection 2: Lucky In Love, At Last, Forever And A Day”, p.116, Hachette UK

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• Never plan a picnic' Father said. 'Plan a dinner, yes, or a house, or a budget, or an appointment with the dentist, but never, never plan a picnic.

  Elizabeth Enright

  Father, House, Picnics

  Elizabeth Enright (2015). “The Four-Story Mistake”, p.180, Macmillan

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• I have to hit the gym. I have beauty appointments. I have to work toward my next job and maintaining my image, just like an athlete.

  Linda Evangelista

  Jobs, Athlete, Next

  "Supermodel Linda Evangelista takes Salma Hayek's husband to court demanding $46,000 support a month - and an armed guard - for their lovechild". www.dailymail.co.uk. August 03, 2011.

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• The muse holds no appointments. You can never call on it. I don't understand people who get up at 9 o'clock in the morning, put on the coffee and sit down to write.

  Glen Hansard

  Morning, Coffee, Writing

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• A lot of times I'm traveling or have appointments, so I don't get to work out every day, but I try to get to the gym as much as I can.

  Brody Jenner

  Work Out, Trying, Gym

  Seventeen Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 8, 2008.

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• Watch out Mr. Bush! With the exception of economic policy and energy policy and social issues and tax policy and foreign policy and supreme court appointments and Rove-style politics, we're coming in there to shake things up!

  Tom Toles

  Issues, Style, Energy

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• A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

  Stendhal

  Happiness, Wise, Yield

  "De L'Amour (On Love)". Book by Stendhal (Chapter 60), 1822.

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• The genius of Republican liberty, seems to demand on one side, not only that all power should be derived from the people; but, that those entrusted with it should be kept in dependence on the people, by a short duration of their appointments; and, that, even during this short period, the trust should be placed not in a few, but in a number of hands.

  James Madison

  Hands, Republican Government, Numbers

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, Quentin P. Taylor, John Jay (1998). “The Essential Federalist: A New Reading of the Federalist Papers”, p.73, Rowman & Littlefield

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• The appointment of senators by the state legislatures . . . is recommended by the double advantage of favoring a select appointment, and of giving to the state governments such an agency in the formation of the federal government, as must secure the authority of the former.

  James Madison

  Government, Agency, Giving

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• We all have appointments with the past.

  W. G. Sebald

  Military, Past

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