Evelyn Underhill Quotes

The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

Evelyn Underhill

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• Mining is a dangerous profession. There's no way to make a mine completely safe: These are the words owners have always used to excuse needless deaths and the words miners use to prepare for them.

  

  Tawni O'Dell
  • Words
  • Dangerous
  • Safe

• I practice safe sex - I use an airbag.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Practice
  • Sex
  • Safe

• It's an old adage that the way to be safe is never to be secure... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

  

  Harold W. Dodds
  • Best
  • Safe
  • Insecurity

• Everybody after Fukushima had to reassess the safety of nuclear. When I set out to design a reactor, I knew it had to be passive and intrinsically safe.

  

  Taylor Wilson
  • Design
  • Safety
  • Safe

• I'm a very safe saver. I save everything. I save all my money and my parents raised me like that.

  

  Kat Dennings
  • Money
  • Parents
  • Like

• If you let your fear of consequence prevent you from following your deepest instinct, your life will be safe, expedient and thin.

  

  Katharine Butler Hathaway
  • Life
  • Fear
  • Safe

• Meat and poultry is safe. It's safer than it's probably ever been.

  

  Dan Glickman
  • Safe
  • Meat
  • Ever

• The federal government has invested billions in Metro, yet the system is not safe and is not reliable.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Government
  • System
  • Safe

• The Morganville in her wanted to tell people to go home and be safe, but she knew that was verging on crazy. The world these laughing people lived in was a very different place. She was in a very different place.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • People
  • World
  • Home

• And that, Claire thought, was why Morley had been right about this, even if he was a complete vampire about it. You had to save what you could. Amelie had understood that all along, Claire realized. That was why Morganville existed. Because you had to try.

  

  Rachel Caine
  • Why
  • Safe
  • Vampire

• Don’t be vain because you happen to have talent. You are not responsible for that; it was not of your doing. What you do with your talent is what matters.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Talent
  • Responsible
  • What Matters

• Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Trying
  • May
  • Mean

• We are the party of Roosevelt. We are the party of Kennedy. So don't tell me that Democrats won't defend this country. Don't tell me that Democrats won't keep us safe.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Country
  • Party
  • Safe

• We are on alert 24/7. And everything that you report will be investigated. We do it in private. We do it covertly. This could be a problem, it could simply be your neighbor having a bad day. But better be safe than sorry.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Bad
  • Sorry
  • Safe

• Judgment is such a useful shield, isn't it? We can hide behind it, rise above others on its crest, keep ourselves safe and separate.

  

  Lisa Unger
  • Judgment
  • Safe
  • Separate

• I hope that even if you remember not a single word of mine, you remember those of Seneca, another of those old Romans I met when I fled down the Classics corridor, in retreat from career ladders, in search of ancient wisdom: As is a tale, so is life: not how long it is, but how good it is, is what matters.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Life
  • Good
  • Long

• Of course, I started as a collector. A true collector. I can remember as if it were only yesterday the heart-pounding excitement as I spread out upon the floor of my bedroom The Edward G. Robinson Collection of Rare Cigar Bands. I didn't play at collecting. No cigar anywhere was safe from me.

  

  Edward G. Robinson
  • Heart
  • Remember
  • True

• And there's that one particular harbor Sheltered from the wind Where the children play on the shore each day And all are safe within...

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Children
  • Play
  • Wind

• Love is a sudden revelation: a kiss is always a discovery.

  

  Leonardo DiCaprio
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Kiss

• Discipline is the soul of an army. It makes small numbers formidable; procures success to the weak, and esteem to all.

  

  George Washington
  • Soul
  • Discipline
  • Army

• Maybe if I'd agreed to do the debutante thing like she wanted. Or taken up pageants instead of riding jump bikes with a bunch of grungy boys. I'd always tell her, why can't I do both? Who says you have to be either smart or pretty, or into girly stuff or sports? Life shouldn't be about the either/or. We're capable of more than that, you know?

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Taken
  • Sports
  • Smart

• How handy for the Islamo-fascists, the American-hating, Jew-killing, Israel-destroying, women-abusing, multireligious-intolerant Muslims. Oh! Excuse me. Did I say something not quite PC?

  

  Brigitte Gabriel
  • Muslims
  • Islamo-fascists
  • American-hating

• I have always admired the ability to bite off more than one can chew and then chew it.

  

  William C. DeMille
  • inspirational
  • Ability
  • Achievement

• The will is what matters---as long as you have that, you are safe.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Safe
  • What Matters