Dennis Edwards Quotes

My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

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• A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Good
  • Smile
  • Warm

• God doesn't want us to merely sit around dreaming about things we can do and be. That's a good place to start, but a poor place to stop. God wants us to turn our dreams into action.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • Good
  • God
  • Action

• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• I've never been a partier.

  

  Victoria Justice
  • Never
  • Been

• The personal ego already has a strong element of dysfunction, but the collective ego is, frequently, even more dysfunctional, to the point of absolute insanity.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Strong
  • Ego
  • Insanity

• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Pain
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Work
  • Study
  • Work Hard

• It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.

  

  Saad Hariri
  • People
  • Fall
  • Easy

• Given that external reality is a fiction, the writer's role is almost superfluous. He does not need to invent the fiction because it is already there.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • Reality
  • Need
  • Writer

• I am interested in shows that are not out-and-out gag fests: you see the truth of a broken heart behind them. That is what life is like: it's really funny, you see funny things as soon as you step out of the room, but underneath that is a whole bag of broken hearts. It's that real pain and that real hilarity that makes life so intriguing.

  

  Tamsin Greig
  • Life
  • Real
  • Heart

• I think the sidekick makes the number one look good.

  

  Jacob Batalon
  • Good
  • Think
  • Look

• A lot of things come with fame, whether it's losing friends or losing family.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Losing

• And my friends, you ain't seen nothin' yet.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Friends
  • You
  • Seen

• I'm not graceful.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Graceful

• There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • World
  • Good
  • Children

• Miracles are a retelling in small letters of the very same story which is written across the whole world in letters too large for some of us to see.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • World
  • Small
  • inspirational

• I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Know
  • Ends
  • Deny

• There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Always
  • Someone
  • Toy

• Though the day of my Destiny's over,And the star of my Fate hath declined,Thy soft heart refused to discoverThe faults which so many could find.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Heart
  • Star
  • Destiny

• I think that when a film does its job, it poses questions rather than gives answers. It should act as a frustrating counselor who, at your bidding for advice, says, 'What do you think?' I think that's some of what the culture critic Greg Tate meant by art leaving a 'metaphysical stain.'

  

  Aunjanue Ellis
  • Art
  • Job
  • Culture

• The conductor must breathe life into the score. It is you and you alone who must expose it to the understanding, reveal the hidden jewel to the sun at the most flattering angles.

  

  Charles Munch
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Understanding

• The soul is like an uninhabited world that comes to life only when God lays His head against us.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Life
  • God
  • Soul

• I think from the very beginning with 'We Are Young,' there was never any question about where we wanted the song to go and what we wanted it to sound like. And we knew that we wanted it to be big, we wanted it to be booming over the speakers at an arena or something.

  

  Andrew Dost Fun.
  • Song
  • Question
  • Beginning

• My whole life, I've been a Temptation.

  

  Dennis Edwards The Temptations
  • Life
  • Temptation