Evelyn Underhill Quotes

The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?

Evelyn Underhill

• God
• Humanity
• Economy
• My Soul

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• I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.

  

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• If you're making comedies, they have to have a fun and a rhythm to them.

  

  Adam McKay
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• I didn't get anything published until I was thirty-three, and yet I'd written five novels and six or seven plays. The plays, I should point out, were dreadful.

  

  Edmund White
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• Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.

  

  Ted Deutch
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• The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.

  

  Randy Travis
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• I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.

  

  Jack Wild
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• One challenge in this industry is that you adopt a certain look for a movie, and then people don't get to see the movie for a year!

  

  Haley Joel Osment
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• We were fortunate to have the Russians as our childhood enemies. We practiced hiding under our desks in case they had the temerity to drop a nuclear weapon.

  

  Kary Mullis
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• Cate Blanchett is somebody who I could watch do anything. I love what an extraordinary chameleon she can be. There's something about the way she bends and transforms that feels otherworldly to me.

  

  Maggie Siff
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• Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

  

  Galen Rowell
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• Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Die

• We have Christians against Muslims against Jews. They're making incompatible claims on real estate in the Middle East as though God were some kind of omniscient real estate broker parsing out parcels of land to his chosen flock. People are literally dying over ancient literature.

  

  Sam Harris
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  • God
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• One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.

  

  Larry Wall
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• Love is like any other luxury. You have no right to it unless you can afford it.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• Our aim may be as high as the endless sky, but we should have a resolve in our minds to walk ahead, hand-in-hand for victory will be ours.

  

  Atal Bihari Vajpayee
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• Not only does democracy make every man forget his ancestors, but also clouds their view of their descendants and isolates them from their contemporaries. Each man is for ever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart.

  

  Alexis de Tocqueville
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• Chorus leader: Ye Children of Man! whose life is a span, / Protracted with sorrow from day to day, / Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, / Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay! (heavily rewritten tr. Frere 1839, p. 38)

  

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• 'Aha? You have been very clever, madame.' 'No, I haven’t really. It was a pure accident. I mean, I walked into a small café place and there the girl was, just sitting there.' 'Ah. You had the good fortune then. That is just as important.'

  

  Agatha Christie
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• I belong to that generation who, as students, had before their eyes, and were limited by, a horizon consisting of Marxism, phenomenology and existentialism. For me the break was first Beckett's Waiting for Godot, a breathtaking performance.

  

  Michel Foucault
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• I think more and more foundations are putting resources into food activism. But I think that given the state of the economy, foundations won't be giving as much in general. For me it's about working with these existing institutions in communities that people already go to, that people trust, that they know, and determining how best they can play a role in the creation of local food systems and address the ills that are right around them in the community.

  

  Bryant Terry
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  • Economy
  • Foundations

• Although he may not always recognize his bondage, modern man lives under a tyranny of numbers.

  

  Nicholas Eberstadt
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  • Tyranny

• I understand, and not knowing how to express myself without pagan words, I’d rather remain silent.

  

  Arthur Rimbaud
  • Words
  • Express
  • Pagan

• The wise are free from perplexities; the virtuous from anxiety; and the bold from fear.

  

  Confucius
  • Free
  • Fear
  • Anxiety

• The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • God
  • Humanity
  • Economy