Evelyn Underhill Quotes

A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ...the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.

Evelyn Underhill

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• Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sad

• Consequences of linear thinking in Afghanistan and Iraq included overestimating indigenous forces' capabilities, underestimating the enemy, and the associated expectation that the coalition could soon reduce force levels and shift to an exclusively advisory effort.

  

  H. R. McMaster
  • Thinking
  • Effort
  • Enemy

• Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.

  

  Sam Kean
  • People
  • Done
  • Beautiful

• I'm not a singer. In 'Bye Bye Birdie,' I think I was the sad girl who sits on the park bench during 'Put on a Happy Face.'

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Happy
  • Girl
  • Sad

• A great ratatouille is one in which the vegetables interact with each other but are still discernible from each other. The trick is to cook them just right: not over, not under.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Great
  • Right
  • Vegetables

• I was a fan of Jon Jones. I thought he was great.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Great
  • Thought
  • Fan

• 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
  • Way
  • Feels
  • Watch

• I can paint pictures, but I cannot rule men.

  

  Fra Angelico
  • Men
  • Rule
  • Pictures

• We of Es Toch tell a little myth, which says that in the beginning the Creator told a great lie. For there was nothing at all, but the Creator spoke, saying, It exists. And behold, in order that the lie of God might be God’s truth, the universe at once began to exist.

  

  Ursula K. Le Guin
  • Great
  • God
  • Truth

• Even men who share their personal experiences find that, instead of empathy, they get the response Dear Abby gave this man: 'Women have it worse.' This belief is so strong that over the past quarter century, women’s old fantasy of marrying a man-as-protector has been tainted by women’s new nightmare of husband-as-batterer.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women
  • Past

• 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

• If you want your program to be readable, consider supplying the argument.

  

  Larry Wall

• He had seen Hyle shoot, and he had seen only one man he thought was as good ... just one. He'd seen Con Vallian down in the Bald Knob country that time, and Con was quick. He was almighty quick at a time when a man was either quick or he was dead.

  

  Louis L'Amour
  • Time
  • Good
  • Country

• I don't think about the gender thing very much. But when I speak at schools, I've had female students say to me afterwards, "I never envisioned myself being a director, since I've never seen women do it." But after seeing me, they can picture themselves directing, so maybe we'll see more female directors.

  

  Jennifer Yuh Nelson
  • Women
  • Picture

• If the scholar feels that he must know everything about any topic, he is in trouble - and will not publish with a clear conscience.

  

  Kenneth L. Pike

• I know from my own parents how important active older people are to a local community.

  

  Charles Kennedy
  • People
  • Important
  • Parents

• The difference between me and them is that I'll look at Jesse Jackson and I'll see four Jesse Jacksons, and they'll just see one, the clown ambulance chaser.

  

  Chris Matthews

• I made the record that my life had me make. Each one is like a diary.

  

  Lenny Kravitz
  • Life

• The bigotry is so virulent that it may be time to make Christians a protected class. Right now 'Christo-phobia' and 'Biblo-phobia' are at such a fever pitch among leftists and homosexual activists, and they need to be stopped before they get carried away in their zeal and do bodily harm to someone. Once again we must remind them our Constitution says, 'freedom of religion' and not 'freedom from religion.'

  

  E.W. Jackson
  • Christian
  • Needs
  • Class

• It's nice to collect stamps, but if it becomes obsessive, and you start stealing for your stamps, it becomes too much.

  

  Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones
  • Nice
  • Start
  • Obsessive

• Your people are losing your jobs to your machines. You put mechanizing everything and making it efficient above your people's happiness, and you wonder why they aren't happy.

  

  Ekaterina Sedia
  • Wonder
  • Happiness
  • Jobs

• There is nothing in this universe you need more desperately than Christ.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • Universe
  • Christ
  • Desperately

• I think a story should take as long to tell as it is appropriate to that particular story.

  

  Frank Darabont
  • Should
  • Particular
  • Appropriate

• A wise man has said: 'Only a Christian can live wholly in the present, for to him the past is pardoned and the future is safe in God.' ...the Christian life must be a life without regrets, without remorse.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • God
  • Christian
  • Safe