John Nelson Darby Quotes

Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

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• I grew up with injustice and could do nothing about it. But once in America, I had freedom of choice.

  

  Zainab Salbi
  • Up
  • America
  • Freedom

• It's very important that every movie I do makes money because I want the people that had the faith in me to get their money back.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Important
  • Money

• A novelist can never be his own reader, except when he is ridding his manuscript of syntax errors, repetitions, or the occasional superfluous paragraph.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Never
  • Own
  • Errors

• I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • School
  • Film
  • Student

• When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.

  

  Faith Hill
  • People
  • Children
  • Mom

• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Someone
  • Biology

• Do we exert our own liberties without injury to others - we exert them justly; do we exert them at the expense of others - unjustly. And, in thus doing, we step from the sure platform of liberty upon the uncertain threshold of tyranny.

  

  Frances Wright
  • Liberty
  • Step
  • Tyranny

• I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Reality
  • Past
  • Alone

• The more deeply connected you are with the people that you're working with, the better the work and the character, and then, I think, that really translates to life. It will help you in life to be more grounded and genuine.

  

  Cameron Mathison
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Always
  • Charming
  • Rehearsals

• If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Writing
  • Lose
  • Sight

• Well, I'm not a critic, I'm just a worker. So, I'm always grateful for anything the critics say - good or bad.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Grateful

• What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Art
  • Decisions
  • Invite

• I actually think one of my strengths is my storytelling.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Think
  • Storytelling

• I always find Victoria's Secret models a bit weird.

  

  Edie Campbell
  • Always
  • Weird
  • Find

• Act happy, feel happy, be happy, without a reason in the world. Then you can love, and do what you will.

  

  Dan Millman
  • World
  • Love
  • Happy

• I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.

  

  Edgardo Osorio
  • Love
  • Reality
  • Turn

• I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.

  

  Patrick O'Brian
  • Family
  • Reading
  • Years

• They started out with the best intentions, but they didn't want to be known as a poor town.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Best
  • Poor
  • Intention

• In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Time
  • Children
  • Black

• I joke around sometimes and say that the DP [director of photography] is like a shrink for the director, but there's some truth in there.

  

  Reed Morano
  • Truth
  • Like
  • Photography

• I don't really know how my family and friends will react to seeing me on screen in a cinema. I'm sure it'll be an odd experience for them, just like I'm sure it will be for me.

  

  Ben Hardy
  • Family
  • Experience
  • Friends

• While foreign competitors, French or Japanese or German, merrily bid for contracts abroad, American companies find themselves tangled in a web of legislation designed to express disapproval, block trade in certain commodities, or perhaps deny resources to disfavored or hostile regimes.

  

  Elliott Abrams
  • American
  • German
  • Japanese

• Among the children of God, it was they who were most able to rightly divide the word of truth.

  

  John Nelson Darby
  • God
  • Children
  • Truth