"My favorite four-letter words are 'hard work'."
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"The fourth (of the four cardinal virtues) is supportiveness: this manifests as service to others without expectation of reward. (Paraphrased: Such service is not a mere conforming to some external rule of behavior, but instead a manifestation of your original nature)."
"It's better to buy one good pair of shoes than four cheap ones."
"All politics takes place on a slippery slope. The most important four words in politics are up to a point."
"Four tears in my face and you ain't never heard me cry/ I'm richer than all y'all, I got a bank full of pride"
"The universe, they said, depended for its operation on the balance of four forces which they identified as charm, persuasion, uncertainty and bloody-mindedness."
"When all the other children of Adam have had the privilege of receiving the Priesthood, and of coming into the kingdom of God, and of being redeemed from the four quarters of the earth, and HAVE RECEIVED THEIR RESURRECTION FROM THE DEAD, then it will be time enough to remove the curse from Cain and his posterity."
"My name is Four,” I say. “Call me ‘Stiff’ again and you and I will have a problem."
"Becoming fearless isn't the point. That's impossible. It's learning how to control your fear, and how to be free from it."
"It's the friend you call up at four o'clock in the morning that really matters."
"I have stage fright every single concert I've ever done. I have at least four or five minutes of it. It's absolute living hell."
"You know the puritan ethic that started out four centuries ago in this country, needless to say - at least for the moment - a thing of the past - from what I can tell."
"The Analytical Engine, on the contrary, can either add, subtract, multiply or divide with equal facility; and performs each of these four operations in a direct manner, without the aid of any of the other three."
"Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise."
"There are three hundred and sixty-four days when you might get un-birthday presents, and only one for birthday presents, you know."
"A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers."
"I could never just play in a pub in front of four people because I would have had all the press turn up. That way, you don't get to build up naturally. It makes the work feel unnatural, and puts a lot of unnatural pressure on you."
"Faith implies four things: self-renunciation, reliance with utter confidence on Christ, obedience, and a changed life."
"An expansive life, one not constrained by four walls, requires as well an expansive pocket."
"More belongs to marriage than four legs in a bed."