Evelyn Underhill Quotes

God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

Evelyn Underhill

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• I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.

  

  Ted Danson
  • People
  • Love
  • Guy

• It's a fine balance for an athlete in enjoying the moment and being really satisfied, say, with a run, and with your day, and knowing you can make it better in the future.

  

  Hannah Kearney
  • Future
  • Day
  • Balance

• I think there was a time when I considered myself a work addict, but that's no longer accurate. My life has changed so dramatically over the last number of years, especially having a family now. My priorities have shifted.

  

  Edie Falco
  • Life
  • Time
  • Work

• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Funny

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • End
  • Hell
  • Champions

• You get to a new school, and you're the new guy, or you're the foreigner, or you're the guy with the funny accent. That first day at school was a whole new opportunity to create a new persona.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • School
  • Guy
  • Opportunity

• In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Color

• Always prefer the plain direct word to the long, vague one. Don't implement promises, but keep them.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Always
  • Promises

• Concern should drive us into action, not into a depression.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Action
  • Depression
  • Drive

• I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.

  

  V. E. Schwab
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Hate

• I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Bad
  • Science

• One can go to war alone, but you can't build peace alone.

  

  Jacques Chirac
  • War
  • Peace
  • Alone

• There are a billion songs that I've heard and said, 'I don't even care to have an opinion about it,' but if I have to hear a snippet of the refrain of 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' once, it'll get stuck in my head, and that drives me crazy.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Together
  • Crazy
  • Opinion

• The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

• I used to have a lovely wallet with lots of different compartments where I kept photographs of my grandmother, grandfather and friends. It was stolen one night when I was out in Edinburgh, and I never got it back.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • Different
  • Friends
  • Night

• I joined the Safe Climate Caucus because I believe in leaving a safer planet for future generations.

  

  Mark Pocan
  • Believe
  • Future
  • Leaving

• As an actress, I get plenty of drama in my professional life. When I'm at home, I want a peaceful life.

  

  Lysette Anthony
  • Life
  • Home
  • Drama

• I had a baby with no pain medicine, mainly because most people I talked to didn't think I'd be able to do it. So there!

  

  Busy Philipps
  • People
  • Pain
  • Baby

• I am somebody who is constantly hungry to nibble on something.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Hungry
  • Nibble

• Over the years, God and St. Therese have kept me going no matter how bad things were.

  

  Tara Lipinski
  • God
  • Bad
  • Me

• English never met a word it didn't like.

  

  Anu Garg
  • English

• God is always coming to you in the Sacrament of the Present Moment. Meet and receive Him there with gratitude in that sacrament.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • God
  • Moment
  • Gratitude