Evelyn Underhill Quotes

Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

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• My father is a Marine. My brother is a Marine. I almost became a Marine. I'm no stranger to fight training. I used to do jujitsu and boxing as a kid. I was a running back in football for my high school and my college. I played ice hockey as well as did theater. So, there's always been a physical nature to me.

  

  Zach McGowan
  • School
  • Nature
  • High

• It is typical of women to fester and ferment over disappointments, slights, annoyances, angers, etc.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Women
  • Over
  • Disappointments

• I use loads of moisturising products and make sure I cleanse, tone and moisturise every day. It's just so important to always keep your skin moisturised.

  

  Abbey Clancy
  • Important
  • Day
  • Everyday

• You are, at this moment, standing, right in the middle of your own 'acres of diamonds.'

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • You
  • Moment
  • Diamonds

• I found my niche as a character actor, and I've never felt like a movie star or teen idol and never wanted to.

  

  Vincent D'Onofrio
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Star

• The death of Garang has unfortunately unleashed emotions of anger; some genuine, others cultivated by elements who wanted to pit one group of Sudanese against another.

  

  Salva Kiir Mayardit
  • Death
  • Emotions
  • Anger

• I love the Broadway audiences, who relish live drama and don't hesitate to display their enthusiasm.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Live
  • Drama
  • Enthusiasm

• Jack Benny: Where's that big glass star I told you to pack away last Christmas?

  

  Jack Benny
  • Star
  • Christmas

• Civilization rests on the fact that most people do the right thing most of the time.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • People
  • Time

• I learned five chords; I thought I knew it all.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks

• It is justice, not charity, that is wanting in the world.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft
  • World
  • Justice
  • Charity

• What I have noticed is that no two places in Calcutta are alike. I like the bylanes and the old places. This city has a lot of character.

  

  Barun Sobti
  • Character
  • City

• I want a pig. I want a pig on a leash. A baby pig on a leash.

  

  Kesha
  • Baby

• You can't value others until you value yourself.

  

  Caroline Ghosn
  • Value

• My high school coach was a bit of a jerk.

  

  Keith Hernandez
  • School
  • High

• One seeks to equip the child with deeper, more gripping, and subtler ways of knowing the world and himself.

  

  Jerome Bruner
  • World

• High-level actors can be all about their close-ups and the size of their trailers. I'd heard these horror stories of how a really powerful actor can come in and change your script.

  

  Neill Blomkamp
  • High
  • Powerful

• Usually, I think, every film I've made has been a book, and I've always read it.

  

  Kodi Smit-McPhee
  • Book

• There is no such thing as bad whiskey. Some whiskeys just happen to be better than others. But a man shouldn't fool with booze until he's fifty; then he's a damn fool if he doesn't.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Man
  • Fool
  • Whiskey

• I'm not ashamed to say that I want to be good. And I've found in my life that it has been critically important to establish this intention between me and the Lord so that I knew that HE knew which way I committed my agency. I went before Him and said, 'I'm not neutral, and you can do with me what you want. If you need my vote-it's there. I don't care what you do with me and you don't have to take anything from me because I give it to you-everything. All I own. All I am.' And THAT has made all the difference.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • My Life
  • Difference
  • The Lord

• I know I'm really good at writing for the theater. I can deny it all I want. Other people can fight me on it. It doesn't really matter. It's the thing I happen to know is my gift.

  

  Jason Robert Brown
  • People
  • Good
  • Writing

• A weapon is a tool," she repeated, a little breathlessly. "A tool for killing and destroying. And there will be times when, as an Envoy, you must kill and destroy. Then you will choose and equip yourself with the tools that you need. But remember the weakness of weapons. They are an extension--you are the killer and destroyer. You are whole, with or without them.

  

  Richard K. Morgan
  • Remember
  • Weapons
  • Destroying

• I want to focus on each scene. I'm a real perfectionist, and I don't want to feel like I didn't consider every possible variation of a scene. I come from a theater background, so I'm used to a lot of repetition, and I'm used to really attacking something over and over and over again.

  

  Michael Shannon
  • Real
  • Focus
  • Perfectionist

• Meditation is a half-way house between thinking and contemplating.

  

  Evelyn Underhill
  • Thinking
  • House
  • Meditation