Leslie Earl Maxwell (L. E. Maxwell) Quotes

As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.

Leslie Earl Maxwell

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• People say, 'Oh, politics is so polarized today,' and I'm thinking... '1861, that was polarized.'

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Today

• The greatest glory in living lies not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Time
  • Fall
  • Failure

• I came from two harsh dictatorships, Nazi and Stalinist. I never thought of becoming a writer as such, yet in a lucid moment, I recognised what I had to do.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Never
  • Thought
  • Moment

• I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'

  

  Nate Berkus
  • She
  • Mother
  • House

• People said I couldn't gig, and I proved them wrong.

  

  Kate Bush
  • People
  • Said
  • Wrong

• I definitely use my music to kind of alleviate my stress and get me through specific moments in time where I'm just being really tough on myself.

  

  Idina Menzel
  • Time
  • Music
  • Moments

• At least international media can see how I am trying to change the typical orthodox mindset of people who don't want to come out of their shells of false beliefs and old practices.

  

  Qandeel Baloch
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• Everyone who has sarcoidosis is affected differently.

  

  Karen Duffy
  • Everyone
  • Who
  • Differently

• I used to get some ego thing out of saying I wasn't a star, just an actress. Forget it. I'm a star. I wanted it. I worked for it. I got it.

  

  Valerie Harper
  • Star
  • Forget
  • Ego

• It's fair to say that I have a side that is prudent and a side that is not.

  

  Iggy Pop
  • Say
  • Fair
  • Prudent

• With high underemployment - currently over one million part-time workers in the UK want to work more hours - sanctioning clients who cannot increase their hours seems to be both unworkable and unfair.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • Time
  • Work
  • High

• I gravitate towards happy music. I love the Beach Boys.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Music
  • Love
  • Happy

• I could sit right here and have a 15-minute conversation with somebody and change their whole life.

  

  Young Jeezy
  • Life
  • Change
  • Conversation

• I don't mind being goofy and silly. I love to make people laugh and I'm not self-conscious.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Laugh

• Every American poet feels that the whole responsibility for contemporary poetry has fallen upon his shoulders, that he is a literary aristocracy of one.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • American
  • Responsibility
  • Poetry

• I will repeat again that females are the symbols of nonviolence. Another thing I would say is that a female is more compromising. A female can talk with anyone easily.

  

  Yingluck Shinawatra
  • Talk
  • Again
  • Symbols

• I've had people turn up to book signings with knives, with guns.

  

  Patricia Cornwell
  • People
  • Up
  • Book

• Nature magically suits the man to his fortunes, by making these the fruit of his character.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Character
  • Nature

• I am Albanian by birth. Now I am a citizen of India. I am also a Catholic nun. In my work, I belong to the whole world. But in my heart, I belong to Christ.

  

  Mother Teresa
  • World
  • Heart
  • Christ

• Eventually I want to be a full-time mother who works occasionally - and being an actor you have that freedom.

  

  Carrie-Anne Moss
  • Mother
  • Want
  • Actors

• I don't know if people consciously get in the way of their own success. In fairness, people have a lot of pride, and they fall back on what they know to be safe and correct. Anybody, including me, struggles with change.

  

  Marcus Lemonis
  • People
  • Success
  • Fall

• The cry of the oppressed has entered not only into my ears, but into my soul, so that while I live, I cannot hold my peace.

  

  Elijah Parish Lovejoy
  • Live
  • Soul
  • Peace

• It will by the time we're done today.

  

  Chad Knaus
  • Time
  • Done
  • Today

• As soon as the Cross ceases to be to us, first of all, the place of utmost shame and contempt, we make the Cross of Christ of none effect.

  

  Leslie Earl Maxwell