Elvis Costello (Declan Patrick MacManus) Quotes

The wages of sin are an expensive infection.

Elvis Costello

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• Zoroastrians believe in one Great Almighty Spirit of Good who is in combat against evil forces, and Goodness prevails in the end. There is no self-flagellation or staring at the sun or snake-handling.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Good
  • Great
  • Believe

• A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Man
  • Thoughts
  • Product

• Is fear preventing you from taking action? Acknowledge the fear, watch it, take your attention into it, be fully present with it. Doing so cuts the link between the fear and your thinking. Don't let the fear rise up into your mind. Use the power of the Now. Fear cannot prevail against it.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Up
  • Thinking
  • Mind

• I know of no way of judging the future but by the past.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Future
  • Past
  • Judging

• The London property market has excellent investment opportunities.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Opportunities
  • London

• Reformed theology does NOT teach that God brings the ELECT kicking and screaming, against their will, into His kingdom. It teaches that God so-works in the hearts of the Elect as to make them willing and pleased to come to Christ. They come to Christ because they want to. They want to because God has created in their hearts a desire for Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Desire
  • Teach

• When I create music, the feeling that you get... I get first. You [the listener] have a delayed experience with the feeling I initially get when I have a creative insight. Not just the voice, but all the creativity - the production, the idea, the concept, the music involved. There is a high. There is an emotional experience that happens when everything comes together... I made music as consistently as I did, especially back in the day, because it made me feel so good... When everything is on, it's a wonderful feeling.

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • Good
  • Music
  • Experience

• If I obey Jesus Christ, the redemption of God will flow through me to the lives of others, because behind the deed of obedience is the reality of Almighty God.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Reality
  • Jesus

• Comrade Mao, whether he was crossing 'a sea of surging waves' or scaling 'a mountain pass impregnable as iron' always held unwaveringly to his course, setting a shining example for the Chinese Communist Party.

  

  Xi Jinping
  • Party
  • Sea
  • Chinese

• A life spent in the routine of science need not destroy the attractive human element of a woman's nature.

  

  Annie Jump Cannon
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Science

• Very often the Group actor is a critic when he's acting and an actor when he's criticizing.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Acting
  • Actor
  • Critic

• Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.

  

  Elia Kazan
  • Poetry
  • Direction
  • Prose

• Head knowledge without heart knowledge is worse than useless; but when head and heart join forces, it changes our lives forever.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • Heart
  • Knowledge
  • Forever

• Only by being both deity and humanity could Jesus Christ bridge the gap between where God is.

  

  David Jeremiah
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Humanity

• At Birkin Grif's left, his seat insecure on a scruffy packhorse, Theomeris Glyn, his only armour a steel-stressed leather cap, grumbled at the cold and the earliness of the hour, and cursed the flint hearts of city girls.

  

  M. John Harrison
  • Heart
  • Girl
  • City

• Ah, Aphrodite, if I sing no moreTo thee, God's daughter, powerful as God,It is that thou hast made my life too sweetTo hold the added sweetness of a song.There is a quiet at the heart of love,And I have pierced the pain and come to peace.

  

  Sara Teasdale
  • Heart
  • Song
  • Pain

• Part of show business is magic. You don't know how it happens.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • Business
  • Know
  • Magic

• For my part, if a man must needs be a knave I would have him a debonair knave... It makes your sin no worse as I conceive, to do it à la mode and stylishly.

  

  Anthony Hope
  • Men
  • Sin
  • Knaves

• The wages of sin are an expensive infection.

  

  Elvis Costello
  • Sin
  • Wages
  • Infection