E. Stanley Jones Quotes
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
E. Stanley Jones
Quotes to Explore
-
Fashion and music have always played off each other and certainly do for me; I love both so much. But there are definitely those moments when you're playing the right song at the right time in the right place, and it feels like the best job in the world.
Harley Viera-Newton
-
Yes, I took up the guitar when I was about 14 or 15, in high school.
Beau Bridges
-
The only power you have is the word no.
Frances McDormand
-
I've always thought that I'd make a pretty good police officer, except maybe for the danger part. I have a rare medical condition that makes it difficult for me to risk getting shot, so probably I'd have to be one of those officers who work in 'do not shoot' areas.
W. Bruce Cameron
-
I think depression creates in me an urgent need to write, but I also believe that daily stress, and even the positive 'stress' of intense happiness, can compel me to express myself through the written word.
Francesca Lia Block
-
'FlashForward' was on the outs when I was approached with 'Happy Endings.' I literally got the script on a Friday, and on Saturday morning I met with David Caspe, Jamie Tarses, and the Russo brothers. I took the role on that Saturday, and on Monday I was doing a table read. It all happened very fast, but it was super exciting.
Zachary Knighton
-
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.
Parker Palmer
-
I have felt that connection and stewardship for Earth for as long as I can remember. And not just for Earth, but the whole universe.
Kalpana Chawla
-
I like the discipline of well-cut, impeccable clothes. I think it's a very healthy discipline.
Karl Lagerfeld
-
Love that is not jealous is neither true nor pure.
Victor Hugo
-
Our family had been shattered, but we now are more united, and the remains of my family and the majority of my mother's family are glad to know the truth about a horrible crime.
Sam Sheppard
-
Even Apple, notorious for keeping a tight grip on its products, allows fierce competitors like Google, Amazon, Spotify, and Microsoft to offer their apps on its phones and tablets.
Walt Mossberg
-
When you love somebody, and they have a child, you love their child. You just accept it as a part of who they are, and you care about them and theirs.
Nathan Parsons
-
I'm not a rock singer and I don't want to be a rock singer. I'm not interested. It doesn't seem to get across.
Van Morrison
-
I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
Eartha Kitt
-
You walk past people in streets, or they serve you in shops, and you know nothing about the horrors they may be living with.
Paddy Considine
-
I don't really like to talk about other people. I think people who have things going on in their lives, I think they have enough to deal with, they don't need, you know, Abigail Breslin weighing in on their lives.
Abigail Breslin
-
The harder I work, the luckier I get.
Samuel Goldwyn
-
The SAS Reserve tends to be made up of former paratroopers and commandos who still want a challenge, but it is open to civilians.
Bear Grylls
-
When I say 'capitalism,' I mean a full, pure, uncontrolled, unregulated laissez-faire capitalism-with a separation of state and economics, in the same way and for the same reasons as the separation of state and church.
Ayn Rand
-
Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very mighty. And she would control her kids a lot by giving them the eye, or the stare.
Vanessa Williams
-
Even I don't wake up looking like Cindy Crawford.
Cindy Crawford
-
I am not influenced by other human beings. But I am inspired.
Elaine Stritch
-
In the ordinary church, it is suppressed by respectability, by a desire to appear better than we really are.
E. Stanley Jones
