Essence Atkins Quotes

I am very happy. Extremely, blissfully so. Even in my pain, I'm happy. I like crying. It makes me feel alive. Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are. Not that I'm welcoming tribulation, but I find that it is beneficial.

Essence Atkins

• Opportunity
• Kind
• Pain
• Challenges
• Situation
• Cry
• Welcome
• Priorities

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• To be at ease is better than to be at business. Nothing really belongs to us but time, which even he has who has nothing else.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Time
  • Business
  • Better

• I used to love the feeling of running, of running too far. It made my skin tingle.

  

  Larry Bird
  • Feeling
  • Running
  • Far

• If you actually want to change your world, there is a better way of doing it than blowing yourself up.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Up
  • World
  • Change

• When I was 13, I started working in a nightclub with Ray Charles. That's the greatest school in the world, the school of the streets. Ray taught me how to read in Braille. He was only two years older than me, but it was like he was 100 years older.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • World
  • School
  • Greatest

• I will eat disgusting things, but only those with long established culinary traditions.

  

  Dana Goodyear
  • Long
  • Traditions
  • Culinary

• Some might consider me an unlikely advocate for gun rights because I sustained terrible injuries in a violent shooting. But I'm a patriot, and I believe the right to bear arms is a definitive part of our American heritage.

  

  Gabrielle Giffords
  • Believe
  • American
  • Gun

• Many occasions I've sat down with Israelis to say, where do you see your country in 10 years time, and work me back, so we can figure out the synergies and the connections between Israel and the rest of the Arab world. No Israeli has ever been able to answer that question.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • Time
  • World
  • Work

• I'm still a huge Yankees fan. Growing up, Jeter was my guy, but Bernie Williams was my favorite player.

  

  Action Bronson
  • Up
  • Guy
  • Growing

• I'm always in trouble with Twitter. I don't know what it is. Trying to shake it.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Trying
  • Know
  • Always

• Kosovo is too close to Europe. It is not only close to Albania, it is close to Greece, Italy, Germany and Switzerland, where there are still many Kosovo refugees. Spontaneous reactions could multiply.

  

  Fatos Nano
  • Europe
  • Italy
  • Switzerland

• There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Want
  • You
  • Three

• At times, I've referred to Christ's miracles, and have said, 'Well, Christ multiplied the fish and the loaves to feed the people. That is precisely what we want to do with the Revolution and socialism.'

  

  Fidel Castro
  • People
  • Revolution
  • Socialism

• I directed the men in our barque to approach near the savages, and hold their arms in readiness to do their duty in case they notice any movement of these people against us.

  

  Samuel de Champlain
  • People
  • Men
  • Movement

• My childhood did not prepare me for the fact that the world is full of cruel and bitter things.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • World
  • Childhood
  • Bitter

• In New York, everyone's really neurotic and talks about themselves all the time.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Time
  • New
  • New York

• My brain is good, but my body is deteriorating. I probably have another two or three years. Or I can pass tomorrow, but it doesn't make a difference to me.

  

  Ed Koch
  • Good
  • Brain
  • Tomorrow

• The torch relay is an excellent embodiment of all that the Olympic Games have come to symbolise - a celebration of the human spirit. Personally to me, it represents striving to be the best in whatever we do, never giving up despite the odds, and a commitment to health and fitness.

  

  Lakshmi Mittal
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Health

• But HBO is less interested in how many people are watching than in how much the people who are watching are liking the show. They didn't set up their business model to make writers happy. It's just a nice unintended consequence.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• There is a feeling within our system that defence equipment can't be made here and should be imported. I wanted to break this myth, so we spent our money and made a product to prove we have capability in this country, so don't just brush us aside.

  

  Baba Kalyani
  • Country
  • Money
  • Feeling

• I used to know all the lyrics to all the songs from 'The Phantom of the Opera.'

  

  Mallory Jansen
  • Know
  • Lyrics
  • Opera

• It was a woman's bedroom, actually a boudoir, and no man belonged in it except by invitation.

  

  Kathleen Winsor

• Life is supplied with a basic adequacy.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Life
  • Basic
  • Supplied

• They come to the arena to watch gladiators. Do they want to see a bunch of guys choking up on the bat against pitchers throwing 82 miles an hour or do they want to see the ball go 500 feet? They want to see warriors.

  

  Ken Caminiti
  • Up
  • Arena
  • Warriors

• I am very happy. Extremely, blissfully so. Even in my pain, I'm happy. I like crying. It makes me feel alive. Challenges, when you're in a tumultuous situation, are an opportunity to grow, an opportunity to get closer to God, an opportunity to find and kind of reform yourself, and to figure out what really matters and what your priorities are. Not that I'm welcoming tribulation, but I find that it is beneficial.

  

  Essence Atkins
  • Opportunity
  • Kind
  • Pain