John Flavel Quotes
No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. 'In all our afflictions, He is afflicted.' He feels all our sorrows, wants, and burdens as His own. Whence it is that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.
Quotes to Explore
-
I am neither a Bengali nor am I from Delhi's St Stephen's. I am an Allahabad boy.
-
Commitments the voters don't know about can't hurt you.
-
I always focused on being an actor. I did stand-up briefly, but I also did a lot of dramatic work. But since I've been on 'The Daily Show,' people think I'm a comedian. That's not how I see myself.
-
Shakespeare doesn't really write subtext, you play the subtext.
-
I designed all the characters, anyway, and Frank Doyle was doing all the writing. I didn't have any more input on what direction they were going to go with Josie.
-
I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
-
I'm just going to have fun. Maybe that will be the most important thing to do.
-
Life may not always fall into neat chapters, and you may not always get the satisfying ending you're looking for, but sometimes a good explanation is all the rewrite you need.
-
Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
-
I have no pretension that I belong in D.C. I mean, I have to be cautious on how we do our restaurant.
-
Good acting is good acting, however you learn it. Some people who haven't studied are amazing. Some people like Leonardo DiCaprio are naturally gifted - he's learned technique by working with people early on.
-
I was an umpire at little league softball games. I only lasted a few games because I wasn't one hundred percent clear on all the rules.
-
I'm glad that I just played baseball, because I'm sure I had a much longer baseball career than I would've had a football career. I did miss football, but I didn't miss some of the injuries from football.
-
You cannot have adoration without being criticized.
-
I'm not hiding anything. What you see is what you get.
-
The greatest compliment a writer can be given is that a story and character hold a reader spellbound. I'm caught up in the story writing and I miss a good deal of sleep thinking about it and working out the plot points.
-
You say 'African music' and you think 'tribal drumming.' But there's a lot of African music that's like James Brown, and a lot, too, that sounds very Hispanic.
-
America is not a wily, sneaky nation. We don't think that way. We don't think much at all, thank God.
-
One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.
-
It always helps to have a bit of prayer in your back pocket. At the end of the day, you have to have something, and for me, that is God, Jesus, my Catholic upbringing, my faith.
-
Dance has always been my number one. I started when I was seven years old and I've had the opportunity to work with some really amazing artists.
-
I can go anywhere. In fact, for 'Three Billboards,' I was just getting on trains around America. I wrote everywhere from New York to New Mexico. I always write with pencil and paper.
-
Effective storytelling is the key to getting users to understand and adopt your product as well as imperative to recruiting team members and future investors.
-
No friend sympathizes so tenderly with his friend in affliction as does Jesus. 'In all our afflictions, He is afflicted.' He feels all our sorrows, wants, and burdens as His own. Whence it is that the sufferings of believers are called the sufferings of Christ.
