Evelyn Underhill Quotes
No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.
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For 120 minutes, 'Birdman' floats from comedy to surrealism to high drama to quiet brilliance. I felt so inspired by watching this movie. It reaches for the sky and never comes back down to earth.
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I got all my boyhood in vanilla winter waves around the kitchen stove.
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I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
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The experience of making a movie is far removed from watching the end result. It's exciting, but it still makes me squirm.
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Too often, when you are close to people in power, you're trying to make them happy; you're trying to tell them what they want to hear. But I find that really good leaders don't want that. They want the truth. And you do them a service, and yourself a service, by just being honest and straightforward.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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If there's something dangerous, sauces are dangerous for the body.
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I don't want to be one of those guys that you see who made $4 million, invested $3.5 million, and now you work at Wendy's.
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'Orange Is the New Black' was by far the most watched show in both France and Germany and, in fact, all of the markets that we launched.
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When the American people get through with the English language, it will look as if it had been run over by a musical comedy.
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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
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Alice: It's the only way to leave. "I don't love you anymore. Goodbye." Dan: Supposing you do still love them? Alice: You don't leave.
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Any more would have been less.
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A positive state of mind is not merely good for you, it benefits everyone with whom you come into contact, literally changing the world.
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If I choose to bless another person, I will always end up feeling more blessed.
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Jesus Himself stresses that only those who grant forgiveness will receive it.
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Dude, do anything you want.
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Our ability to most fully experience the divine is directly linked to our ability to most fully experience relationships with other human beings.
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For these beings, fall is ever the normal season, the only weather, there be no choice beyond. Where do they come from? The dust. Where do they go? The grave. Does blood stir their veins? No: the night wind. What ticks in their head? The worm. What speaks from their mouth? The toad. What sees from their eye? The snake. What hears with their ear? The abyss between the stars. They sift the human storm for souls, eat flesh of reason, fill tombs with sinners. They frenzy forth. Such are the autumn people.
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The more we can get together and talk about various perspectives, feelings, beliefs, the better.
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I realize anew that, just as we must learn to obey God one choice at a time, we must also learn to trust God one circumstance at a time. Trusting God is not a matter of my feelings but of my will. I never feel like trusting God when adversity strikes, but I can choose to do so even when I don’t feel like it. That act of the will, though, must be based on belief, and belief must be based on truth.
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No metaphysician has yet shaken the ordinary individual's belief in his own existence. The uncertainties only begin for most of us when we ask what else is.
