Matthew Henson Quotes

It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.

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• I promised my mom that if, after a year of putting 150 percent into my career it didn't work out, I would go back to school. I never did go back.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Work
  • School
  • Career

• I think when you're dealing with very tenuous scenes and difficult and heavy subject matter, it's important to be close intimately with your cast as friends, and be able to diffuse a lot of that tension and trust each other with the work.

  

  Jack Falahee
  • Work
  • Important
  • Friends

• I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.

  

  Ed Miliband
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• I was a little, uh, incorrigible as a kid, so the kitchen was a good place to give me structure and balance. It taught me hard work, but then I grew to love it.

  

  Aaron Sanchez
  • Good
  • Work
  • Kid

• Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe was not engaged in subversive work; she was an apolitical project manager with the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of the Reuters news agency.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Work
  • She
  • News

• My best work is often almost unconscious and occurs ahead of my ability to understand it.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Work
  • Best
  • Understand

• I had a father and mother, who were devout and feared God. Our Lord also helped me with His grace. All this would have been enough to make me good, if I had not been so wicked.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Good
  • God
  • Mother

• I think great artists have no time to waste with having disproportionate egos and irrational requests. They're too focused on their work to actually lose themselves in hysterical spirals where they become monsters or tyrants.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Great

• Our works decay and disappear but God gentlest works stay looking down on the ruins we toil to rear.

  

  Walter Smith
  • God
  • Down
  • Looking

• There's something to be said in favor of working in isolation in the real world.

  

  A. R. Ammons
  • World
  • Work
  • Real

• A novelist's lack of awareness of and critical distance to his own body of work is due to a phenomenon that I have noticed in myself and many others: as soon as it is written, every new book erases the last one, leaving me with the impression that I have forgotten it.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Work
  • Book
  • Myself

• I am writing to all the churches to let it be known that I will gladly die for God if only you do not stand in my way... Let me be food for the wild beasts, for they are my way to God.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • God
  • Writing
  • Food

• Whatsoever is, is in God, and without God nothing can be, or be conceived.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • God
  • Nothing
  • Without

• Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.

  

  Rainer Werner Fassbinder
  • Work
  • Done
  • Learned

• I do hope to be an adult actor. But if it doesn't work out, I've been thinking about doing something in the medical therapy field, chiropractics or something like that. I've always been into the idea of helping people medically, but I can't stand blood or surgery. That freaks me out. So this would be a bloodless way to help people.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • People
  • Work
  • Thinking

• As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Up
  • God
  • Long

• I couldn't get that same feeling during the day, with my hands in dirty dish water and the hard sun showing up the dirtiness on the roof tops. And after a time, even at night, the feeling of God didn't last.

  

  Frances Farmer
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• If I do look back, I'll say that I'm blessed. I'm blessed, and I appreciate God for not only letting me live through everything, but to prosper.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • God
  • Live
  • Blessed

• I have to stay in shape for the physical endeavour stunts I do. I work out a lot. I have a personal trainer. I go two or three times a week. I'm on a diet where I photograph everything I eat and send it to her.

  

  Keith Barry
  • Work

• It used to be that if you had a pretty good record, you could stop by a station in Little Rock or Atlanta and let the DJ listen to it. No way something like that can happen now.

  

  Charley Pride
  • Good
  • Pretty
  • Stop

• I want my audience to leave the theatre with positive emotions through this sensorial journey in the world of precious and fragile teenage beauty. And also the idea that the difficulties that we have to go through help us reveal who we really are.

  

  Alante Kavaite
  • Theatre
  • Audience
  • Emotions

• If you are going to be serving a living thing, you have to honor that living thing with some kind of care and thought and preparation to rationalize the taking of that life in some way. Where if you're just grinding up hamburger at McDonald's, I see that as a bit of an affront to living things.

  

  Bryan Fuller
  • Life
  • Up
  • Honor

• Hast thou named all the birds without a gun; Loved the wood-rose, and left it on its stalk.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Gun
  • Rose

• It'll work, if God, wind, leads, ice, snow, and all the hells of this damned frozen land are willing.

  

  Matthew Henson
  • Work
  • God
  • Wind