Francis Asbury Quotes

My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

Francis Asbury

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• I've never been conscious of having any real career plan, and I do not have a wish-list of actors, directors, screenwriters, or cameramen I'm hoping to work with. Life, I feel, has a way of leading us to the right situations and people, or at least to interesting ones.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Billionaires like the Koch brothers, casino mogul Sheldon Adelson, and political puppet master Karl Rove should not be able to buy our elections. Secret money should not be able to drown out the voices of the American people and sell our Democracy to the highest bidder.

  

  Hank Johnson
  • People
  • Money
  • American

• I'm very privy to the way bookstores work, and I think a lot about the ecosystem that my books have been published in. I think it's great to be aware of how publishing works.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Work
  • Great
  • Think

• I'm one of those people if you ask, 'What's your favourite song?' I'm going to give you five. I don't have just one favourite.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Song
  • You

• My sister's a singer, and she's on Twitter, and she has millions of followers. I wonder how that helps her. I think it does to an extent. I think she gets free things.

  

  Hannah Ware
  • She
  • Free
  • Wonder

• There is evidence that some of al Qaeda's nuclear efforts over the years met with swindles and false leads.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Years
  • Evidence
  • Over

• I do not want to be a long-term CEO.

  

  Osman Rashid
  • Long
  • Want
  • CEO

• One who doesn't throw the dice can never expect to score a six.

  

  Navjot Singh Sidhu
  • Never
  • Expect
  • Dice

• The person who grieves suffers his passion to grow upon him; he indulges it, he loves it; but this never happens in the case of actual pain, which no man ever willingly endured for any considerable time.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Time
  • Man
  • Pain

• I couldn't believe I was working with Michael Jackson. I thought, growing up as a kid, I thought Michael was a cartoon.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Growing

• Well, I'm a professional.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Professional
  • Well

• Cuba never had advisors in Vietnam. The military there knew very well how to conduct their war.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • War
  • Military
  • Cuba

• I haven't been hit since Leon Spinks hit me in '92.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Me
  • Hit
  • Leon

• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Great
  • Men

• Since I was very young, probably two or three, I had really good memorization skills. I would memorize stuff from TV and perform it for my family. I was the little performer for most of my early life. So eventually, my mom caught onto that and thought I might want to get into acting.

  

  Nathan Kress
  • Life
  • Good
  • Family

• I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

  Nastassja Kinski
  • Up
  • Wish
  • Never

• Your own barometer is all you have to go by, and often what makes a good director is knowing when not to say something. On occasions you can find yourself on a film set where the person who is wearing the director's hat is only trying to justify his position.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Yourself

• I'm upset by the happiness of all these men who don't know they're unhappy. ... Because of that, though, I love them all. Dear vegetables!

  

  Fernando Pessoa
  • Men

• Viewed up close, nobody is normal.

  

  Caetano Veloso
  • Up
  • Normal

• The light of love, the purity of grace, The mind, the music breathing from her face, 19The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,- And oh, that eye was in itself a soul!

  

  Lord Byron
  • Music
  • Mind
  • Heart

• How often I longed to lovingly administer release! ... to have the courage and the right, after the soul is fled, to stop the poor wretched machine, that exists only to suffer and cause suffering.

  

  Blanche Willis Howard
  • Soul
  • Suffering
  • Exists

• My soul is more at rest from the tempter when I am busily employed.

  

  Francis Asbury
  • Soul
  • Employed
  • Tempter