Evelyn Underhill Quotes

Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.

Evelyn Underhill

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• Over the years to come, one thing is for certain: if the monarchy wishes to stay relevant and in power, it will have to change more.

  

  Kate Williams
  • Power
  • Change
  • Wishes

• Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Time
  • Great
  • Honesty

• Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.

  

  Utada Hikaru
  • Like
  • Deep
  • Lyrics

• I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Important
  • War
  • Taken

• All bad qualities centre round the ego. When the ego is gone, Realisation results by itself. There are neither good nor bad qualities in the Self. The Self is free from all qualities. Qualities pertain to the mind only.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Good
  • Mind
  • Bad

• I think I drift toward sad love songs.

  

  Benmont Tench Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
  • Sad

• As female artists, we have to be constantly criticized for the way that we look, the way that we dress, on a whole other level that men don't have to face.

  

  Kali Uchis
  • Men

• I write with teenagers in mind.

  

  Bernard Beckett
  • Mind

• Boxing makes you kind of tight, so it's really good to mix that with barre, Pilates, or something that'll stretch you out and make you longer. I'm not the person that loves to be in the gym so much. I like to mix it up as much as possible; otherwise, I'll get bored.

  

  Elsa Hosk
  • Up
  • Good
  • Bored

• I've been in rooms where people are discussing films that have yet to come out and saying delightedly, 'Oh, I've heard it's a disaster!' The jealousy is unseemly.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • People
  • Jealousy

• I do everything: I'll have a green juice, then a melted chocolate ice cream. I stay up very late, I get up very early.

  

  Li Lykke Timotej Zachrisson
  • Up
  • Green
  • Chocolate

• Some people are really nice about it. I get Saudi princes and famous people stopping me in L.A. and saying, 'You're Stifler's mom. Can I take a picture with you?' But then you get people like her putting their camera in your face without asking. They think they can do whatever they like.

  

  Jennifer Coolidge
  • People
  • Nice
  • Mom

• Every time somebody would ask me what I want to be when I grow up, I would always say, 'I want to be on Broadway!'

  

  Lilla Crawford
  • Up
  • Time

• I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.

  

  Frank Gehry
  • Book

• I do feel it's important to entertain people. I try to.

  

  Penny Marshall
  • People
  • Important

• When you don't understand the fashion world you're just grateful you get to wear good clothes.

  

  Anton Yelchin
  • World
  • Good
  • Fashion

• After Mason was born, I'd feel guilty doing anything that wasn't related to work.

  

  Kourtney Kardashian
  • Work
  • Guilty

• Their problem was how to adapt English principles and precedents to the new conditions of American life, and they solved it with singular discretion. They put as many obstacles as they could contrive, not in the way of the people's will, but of their whim.

  

  James Russell Lowell
  • People
  • Life
  • American

• Woe to those who call evil good and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!” (Isaiah 5:20).

  

  Walid Shoebat
  • Light
  • Sweet
  • Darkness

• Nick plays a corrupt politician, which is kind of a redundant statement.

  

  Alan Rudolph

• If I had my way, I would have sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll at least 4-6 hours a day. So long as there are going to be things in the way of that, we're going to have a revolution.

  

  Perry Farrell Jane's Addiction
  • Long
  • Rock
  • Sex

• I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now.

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Bad
  • Marriage
  • Feel

• Christianity is a religion which concerns us as we are here and now, creatures of body and soul. We do not "follow the footsteps of his most holy life" by the exercise of a trained religious imagination, but by treading the firm, rough earth, up hill and down dale.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Soul
  • Imagination
  • Religious