Saint Augustine Quotes
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
Quotes to Explore
-
My parents were self-made people, and they were a team.
-
I approach these people from a standpoint of love. How were they loved? How do they love? What's going on in their heart? There's that that I think about with every role.
-
Beethoven's importance in music has been principally defined by the revolutionary nature of his compositions. He freed music from hitherto prevailing conventions of harmony and structure.
-
I did Our Daily Bread for King and that made me popular in the Soviet Union; King was amused by that.
-
By now, you've probably caught on to something: my mother is always standing by with just the right Scripture or inspirational saying to get me through any tough situation.
-
In the South, we drink the Bible with our mother's milk.
-
Scriptures reveal the divine desires of the Lord in our behalf. Each of us should have a burning desire to search the scriptures diligently and daily to seek the will of the Lord in our life. For some, it may be necessary to develop the discipline to search the scriptures daily.
-
I think it's the responsibility of a major opera house not only to cultivate debate and get people thinking, but also to be interfaced with things that challenge them. To challenge its audience and not just deliver things that they know, even though some of those things are wonderful.
-
I kind of stumbled into comics in a roundabout way. One of the first films my father introduced me to was the 1989 'Batman,' the Tim Burton one.
-
I'm looking at doing things that challenge me.
-
We'll only be playing four new songs live, but all the material for the next album is basically finished.
-
Do you want to feel good, or do you want to do good?
-
I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
-
Life in the Middle East is quite different from other places.
-
I like other people's kids and being able to give them back when I want to.
-
In a vague way, I always knew neurosurgery was different - more delicate, more difficult, more demanding. After all, we say things like, 'I'm no brain surgeon,' for a reason.
-
Because Mr. Mandela's early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy, the singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
-
People who do not recognize their Owner and discover their Master are miserable and bewildered. But those who do, and then take refuge in His Mercy and rely on His Power, see this desolate world transformed into a place of rest and felicity, a place of exchange for the Hereafter.
-
I think in some ways, acting and writing are the same. You're getting inside the skin of someone else; you're creating their language and their actions. As a writer, you have to see the whole picture and the structure, and you have to understand every character.
-
Instead of complaining that God had hidden himself, you will give Him thanks for having revealed so much of Himself.
-
I'm not the sort to wallow in nostalgia about the good old days.
-
Medieval justice was a quaint thing.
-
Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'
-
Though in the order of nature angels rank above men, yet, by scale of justice, good men are of greater value than bad angels.
