Sue Monk Kidd Quotes

There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

Sue Monk Kidd

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• It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Play
  • Violence
  • Suffering

• It's kind of cool to have the whole country at your back. Not just a city, but the whole country is rooting for you.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Country
  • City
  • Cool

• When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • Family
  • Day
  • Week

• I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.

  

  Mahendra Singh Dhoni
  • Important
  • Country
  • She

• Well, I'm not trying to get rid of the unions, but I am saying that they appear to be an antiquated concept in today's economy.

  

  Jim DeMint
  • Trying
  • Today

• No one was ever called by God to greater suffering than God's only begotten Son.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Suffering
  • Son

• Let me be patient, let me be kind, make me unselfish, without being blind, though I may suffer, I'll envy it not and endure what comes cause he is all that I got

  

  Lauryn Hill Fugees
  • May
  • Make
  • Envy

• It's been a flood area for quite a long time, but the floods are getting deeper and more frequent.

  

  Larry Miller
  • Time
  • Long
  • Flood

• The paperless office is possible, but not by imitating paper. Note that the horseless carriage did not work by imitating horses.

  

  Ted Nelson
  • Work
  • Horse
  • Office

• I hate to be fatalistic about it, but alcoholism, it's just in your genes. We had some of it in my family, and it just got me.

  

  Barry Hannah
  • Family
  • Hate
  • Genes

• I cannot think of anything more difficult than to say something which would be worthy of this impressive and, for me, memorable occasion, and of the ideals and purposes which inspired the Nobel Peace Award.

  

  Lester B. Pearson
  • Peace
  • Inspired
  • Ideals

• ...All endeavours which are directed to a purely worldly end...contain within themselves the germs of their own corruption.

  

  T. H. White

• Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life

• Clearly, there's a real onus on you to do something correctly when everybody, at least in the United States, had a really clear, specific idea of what this guy looked like - and even more so, what he looked like as Clark Kent and as Superman. You have this whole vast audience of people who would be acutely aware of any deviation whatsoever and probably holding you to a slightly higher standard as a result.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Real
  • Guy

• There's a strange sort of quiet when you're dying. It's as if you're in a glass room, and the walls keep getting thicker and thicker.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • Wall
  • Dying
  • Glasses

• The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.

  

  Plotinus
  • Soul
  • Universe
  • Complete

• Time seemed to suspend itself, or cease altogether. Place faded away. There was only her self, the centre that endured through all times, all events, from the world, from its pain. Timeless, eternal.

  

  Lois Tilton
  • Time
  • World
  • Pain

• There is no place so AWAKE and ALIVE as the edge of becoming.

  

  Sue Monk Kidd
  • Alive
  • Becoming
  • Awake