E. Stanley Jones Quotes

There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.

E. Stanley Jones

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• I write in a small office at home.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Home
  • Small
  • Office

• My father was a lawyer.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Father
  • Lawyer

• You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.

  

  Eddie Vedder Pearl Jam
  • Great
  • Myself
  • Environment

• I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Work
  • Art
  • Fashion

• I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.

  

  Sammy Davis, Jr.
  • War
  • Me
  • President

• The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Looks
  • Look
  • Distance

• I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Know
  • Fight
  • Adversity

• Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • World
  • Good
  • God

• I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.

  

  Gallant
  • Something
  • Loved
  • Very

• We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!

  

  Dan Burton
  • Guy
  • Lost
  • Dad

• I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.

  

  Caitlin Flanagan
  • Influence
  • My Own
  • Height

• I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!

  

  Manika
  • Guy
  • Know
  • Hard

• I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • People
  • Happy
  • Start

• When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • Trying
  • Book
  • Picture

• You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.

  

  Iain Glen
  • You
  • Small
  • Actor

• Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!

  

  Adam Lambert
  • You
  • Wait
  • Minute

• I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.

  

  Ian MacKaye
  • People
  • Funny
  • Thought

• In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Life
  • Moral
  • Thought

• Among the virtues and vices that make up the British character, we have one vice, at least, that Americans ought to view with sympathy. For they appear to be the only people who share it with us. I mean our worship of the antique. I do not refer to beauty or even historical association. I refer to age, to a quantity of years.

  

  William Golding
  • People
  • Character
  • Mean

• Because of the way tech is changing, and becoming cheaper and user-friendly, it's becoming easier to make films cheaply, maintaining quality.

  

  Lance Reddick
  • Way
  • Quality
  • Changing

• I've been a jealous person myself. I've been distrustful, convinced that somebody's having an affair with somebody else. If you believe it in your head, everything looks like a lie. When you're looking for it, you always see it - even the change of expression in their face.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Believe
  • Change
  • Myself

• If you're remarkable it's likely that some people won't like you.

  

  Seth Godin
  • People
  • Remarkable

• There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Want
  • Way
  • Two