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

• I'm an 'in the shower' or 'in the booth' kind of singer. I can sing, but I need either nobody to be able to hear me, or for me to be able to redo it.

  

  T.I.
  • Me
  • Need
  • I Can

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

  

  Karen Horney
  • Action
  • Depression
  • Drive

• As far as being on a major label, some labels get it and get what they have to do, and some labels don't. I don't think the label I'm on necessarily gets it, but I think over time they're gonna have to.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Time
  • Think
  • Labels

• 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

• Listen, everything I did in my childhood was competitive. Everything we did my dad made it into a game to win. We used to drive my mum nuts.

  

  Lee Westwood
  • Game
  • Dad
  • Childhood

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

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

• Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction.

  

  Alveda King
  • Life
  • Mother
  • Baby

• God save us from seeing a Russian revolt, senseless and merciless. Those who plot impossible upheavals among us, are either young and do not know our people, or are hard-hearted men who do not care a straw either about their own lives or those of others.

  

  Alexander Pushkin
  • People
  • God
  • Men

• If men would as fervently seek after love and righteousness as they do after opinions, there would be no strife on earth, and we should be as children of one father, and should need no law or ordinance. For God is not served by any law, but only by obedience.

  

  Jakob Bohme
  • God
  • Men
  • Children

• When something becomes so important to you that it drives your behavior and commands your emotions, you are worshipping it.

  

  J. D. Greear
  • Important
  • Emotion
  • Behavior

• I'm going to make the playoffs. You can believe that. To never play in the playoffs, that will not be my legacy.

  

  LaDainian Tomlinson
  • Believe
  • Play
  • Legacy

• 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