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

• I also think it's very important to consider how the food will feel to the person eating it.

  

  Sally Schneider
  • Important
  • Think
  • Food

• 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

• I think lots of men are like that. We sort of get dressed by our girlfriends.

  

  Ed Weeks
  • Men
  • Think
  • Like

• The alcohol had the code and mystery about it as a writer's drug, but I'm glad that's been debunked. But the trouble with the drinking, much as I hate to admit it, is it helped the work.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Work
  • Hate
  • Drug

• Moreover, the practical recommendations deduced from ecological principles threaten the vested interests of commerce; it is hardly surprising that the financial and political power created by these investments should be used sometimes to suppress environmental impact studies.

  

  Garrett Hardin
  • Power
  • Political
  • Financial

• A smile flickered across Coral’s face. “Have you ever noticed that once you have had a taste of certain sweets—raspberry trifle is my own despair—it is quite impossible not to think, not to want, not to crave until you have taken another bite?” “Lord Swartingham is not a raspberry trifle.” “No, more of a dark chocolate mousse, I should think,” Coral murmured. “And,” Anna continued as if she hadn’t heard the interruption, “I don’t need another bite, uh,night of him.

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Thinking
  • Night
  • Taken

• 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