Evelyn Underhill Quotes

I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!

Evelyn Underhill

• Hope
• Idea
• Christmas
• Eternity

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• We went to dinner and healed the wounds, at least to a certain degree. But I hope he understands the hurt he did to me. He put the boot into a pal and I don't think you should do that.

  

  Ian St. John
  • Hope
  • Hurt
  • Dinner

• You know what? At the end of the day, funny is funny. I hope to see the end of all the female cliches that are written in a lot of comedies that are named chick flicks.

  

  Wendi McLendon-Covey
  • Hope
  • Funny
  • Day

• At Christmas, I am always struck by how the spirit of togetherness lies also at the heart of the Christmas story. A young mother and a dutiful father with their baby were joined by poor shepherds and visitors from afar. They came with their gifts to worship the Christ child.

  

  Queen Elizabeth II
  • Heart
  • Mother
  • Father

• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• My hope for this country is that we remain a people who value freedom, who have the courage to face the realities with faithful hearts instead of anxious ones.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.

  

  Raha Moharrak
  • Mind
  • Me
  • Idea

• Good psychology should include all the methodological techniques, without having loyalty to one method, one idea, or one person.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • Good
  • Idea
  • Psychology

• When you're so passionate about cinema, the idea to direct your own film is really appealing.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Idea
  • Passionate
  • Cinema

• I propose to build for eternity.

  

  Filippo Brunelleschi
  • Eternity
  • Build
  • Propose

• Half of Syria's refugees are children, and we know what can happen to children who grow to adulthood without hope or opportunity in refugee camps. The camps become fertile recruiting grounds for violent extremists.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Children
  • Hope
  • Opportunity

• I quickly discovered that trying to go play golf while living in Manhattan was about as easy as trying to grab a taxi while standing out in front of Saks Fifth Avenue in the freezing rain on the last shopping day before Christmas.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Trying
  • Day
  • Golf

• One of the hardest things is to create hope.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Hope
  • Create
  • Hardest

• Kids take work, effort, love, blood, sweat and tears and are a full time job. You have to commit, for better or worse and then give your all and hope for the best. The one thing you can never, ever do is give up and say, 'Oooops, never mind, my bad, you can take this one back!'

  

  Dale Archer
  • Up
  • Time
  • Work

• I think it's important not to grow up too fast. I'm 26 now, and I still can't wait for Christmas Day. The inner seven-year-old isn't buried too deeply in me.

  

  Laura Haddock
  • Up
  • Important
  • Day

• We hope there is a sense of purpose in everything.

  

  Ozzie Smith
  • Hope
  • Purpose
  • Everything

• Even as the Internet has revived hope of a universal library and Google seems to promise an answer to every query, books have remained a dark region in the universe of information. We want books to be as accessible and searchable as the Web. On the other hand, we still want them to be books.

  

  Gary Wolf
  • Hope
  • Hand
  • Universe

• There are a lot of times that we feel like our hands are tied - 'I have no control over if I'm going to lose my job.' 'I have no control over if I'm going to be able to pay my bills.' You've got to realize that that's where your trust comes in. You have to trust God, and keep your hope, because your hope is what produces your faith.

  

  Victoria Osteen
  • God
  • Job
  • Hope

• My mother hoped I would meet a nice doctor or barrister or accountant who would marry me and take me to live in what is now called Fashionable Dublin Four. But she felt that this was a vain hope. I was a bit loud to make a nice professional wife, and anyway, I was too keen on spending my holidays in far flung places to meet any of these people.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • People
  • Mother
  • Hope

• I really hope acting is going to be my career to the end, but you don't know anything, really, do you?

  

  Kierston Wareing
  • Hope
  • Career

• There are Depeche Mode parties around the world where people listen to our music all night long. The more remixes we can give them, the more interesting those nights have got to be.

  

  Martin Gore Depeche Mode
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• One of the members of the group, I can't remember which one, found out we were making $3 - $5,000 a night. We were getting a hundred dollars a week a piece. Everybody got upset about it.

  

  Benjamin Earl King
  • Remember
  • Night

• In 'Requiem for a Dream,' the director Darren Aronofsky's adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s lower-depths novel, Jared Leto has lost so much weight, he looks like another person altogether.

  

  Elvis Mitchell
  • Dream
  • Lost

• I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Hope
  • Idea
  • Christmas