John Sterling Quotes

Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

John Sterling

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• My wife asked me if I ever thought I would ever retire from stand-up. And I thought about it, and I was like, 'No, because it's my job; it's what I do, and I enjoy it.' It's still the most challenging thing for me to do.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • Up
  • Job
  • Wife

• Well, we've faced very difficult decisions and challenges in our country, every one of us have, as we - since September 11th, as we fought the war on terror, all of those decisions that the President had to make to put young men and women in harm's way.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Men
  • Women
  • Country

• Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Girl
  • You
  • Waiting

• I want medical experiments on animals stopped. They don't do anything, and they don't work.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Work
  • Animals
  • Medical

• I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Trying
  • You
  • Promise

• I used to be six foot four. Now that I'm old, I slouch. So, I'm six foot three.

  

  Jack Palance
  • Old
  • Now
  • Three

• The sage does not hoard. The more he helps others, the more he benefits himself, The more he gives to others, the more he gets himself. The Way of Heaven does one good but never does one harm. The Way of the sage is to act but not to compete.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Good
  • Heaven
  • Act

• I don't know why people have divided the whole world into two groups, west and east. Education is neither eastern nor western. Education is education and it's the right of every human being.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Being
  • Most
  • Naked

• I personally like to do independent films.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Like
  • Independent
  • Films

• It's as simple as you can explain all of 'Dallas.' We're a dysfunctional family forced to stay together.

  

  Patrick Duffy
  • Family
  • Together
  • Simple

• What is morality in any given time or place? It is what the majority then and there happen to like, and immorality is what they dislike.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Time

• Love is the law, love under will.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Law

• If the moral good of fiction stems mainly from a habit of mind it inculcates in the reader, styles are neither good nor bad, and to describe some fictional enterprises as false is pointless.

  

  Mary Gordon
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I want to emphasize that character in our leaders does matter.

  

  Bill Haslam
  • Character

• Ignorance is bliss, or so we're told. Personally, I find ignorance is also destiny.

  

  Gayle Lynds
  • Destiny
  • Ignorance

• When I'm DJing for two hours, I might play two or three Smiths songs.

  

  Andy Rourke Pretenders

• Making music all the time was my dream.

  

  Kygo
  • Time
  • Music
  • Dream

• In my early 30s, I started to realise I was avoiding something on a personal level, but also as a writer. I was in denial about who I was, and was trying to be someone who I was not.

  

  Ayad Akhtar
  • Trying

• Life is God's art.

  

  Larry Norman
  • Life
  • God
  • Art

• Probably the worst time in a person's life is when they have to kill a family member because they are the devil. But otherwise it's been a pretty good day.

  

  Emo Philips
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Worthiness, in very simple terms, means I have found a way to let the Energy reach me, the Energy that is natural, reach me. Worthiness, or unworthiness, is something that is pronounced upon you by you. You are the only one that can deem yourself worthy or unworthy. You are the only one who can love yourself into a state of allowing, or hate yourself in a state of disallowing. There is not something wrong with you, nor is there something wrong with one who is not loving you. You are all just, in the moment, practicing the art of not allowing, or the art of resisting

  

  Esther Hicks
  • Art
  • Energy
  • Hate

• Mere curiosity adds wings to every step.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Curiosity
  • Step
  • Wings

• Pain has its own noble joy, when it starts a strong consciousness of life, from a stagnant one.

  

  John Sterling
  • Life
  • Pain
  • Consciousness