Jonathan Edwards Quotes
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
Quotes to Explore
-
Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
-
It's like driving your car. If you drive too fast on the highway, you will topple, so you better maintain your speed. Life is similar to that, and that's the way you have to control your head.
-
I don't know about you, but I think blankets are the best, especially your own personal blanket.
-
A lot of labels are hiring a lot more accountants than people that know music.
-
When you have got an elephant by the hind legs and he is trying to run away, it's best to let him run.
-
Throughout my whole swimming career, I've never been disqualified once. I've never been warned once.
-
Well, I just wanted to be a person. I just wanted them to keep writing me as humanistic as possible.
-
I want to have an impact on my son.
-
The military executes policy decisions.
-
What is the purpose of public service? It's to solve problems for the people you represent and certainly in the United States Senate, thinking about your state and thinking about your country as well.
-
I've been into horses as far back as I can remember. There is a particular kind here in America called the 'quarter horse' that I'm very interested in.
-
The West hasn't reached its universal state as yet, although its close to it, but it certainly has evolved out of its warring state phase, which it was in for a couple of centuries.
-
Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
-
I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
-
It wouldn't bother me at all not to play on my own album.
-
I knew her work very well and I knew that if she offered me a role in her movie, it wouldn't be something stupid. So I agreed to do the film before I read the script.
-
Kids coming out of college want that urban core excitement more and more.
-
I think you can do science fiction, but you have to ground it in some realism. People need to identify with the characters, with their plights and their issues.
-
Only one thing registers on the subconscious mind: repetitive application - practice. What you practice is what you manifest.
-
On the one hand, the Republicans are telling industrial workers that the high cost of food in the cities is due to this government's farm policy. On the other hand, the Republicans are telling the farmers that the high cost of manufactured goods on the farm is due to this government's labor policy. That's plain hokum. It's an old political trick: "If you can't convince 'em, confuse 'em." But this time it won't work.
-
Travel writing is harrowing. You are in paradise, more or less, having to prove it is paradise. It is hard to have a good time trying to figure out a way to say you are having a good time, whether you are having it or not, even in paradise.
-
I certainly grew up seeing more movies and television than I read books, but when it came time to do the thing itself you don't have to hire a lot of people to sit down and write a book, so that was the story-telling medium that was available to me.
-
I once asked Aragon, the historian, how history was written. He said, 'You have to invent it.' When I wish as now to tell of critical incidents, persons, and events that have influenced my life and work, the true answer is all of the incidents were critical, all of the people influenced me, everything that happened and that is still happening influences me.
-
The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.
