Ravi Zacharias Quotes

Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

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• Cinema is changing every week, and multiplex audiences are demanding every week.

  

  Irrfan Khan
  • Week
  • Changing
  • Cinema

• My job as the actress playing Hanna Schmitz, as the actress playing any part, is to understand the character, and to ultimately love the character. And I did love Hanna, absolutely, because I understood her as profoundly as I did at the end of the day.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Character
  • Job
  • End

• I haven't a clue what's going to happen next, and I can't wait to find out.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Find
  • Happen
  • Wait

• I was a goody two shoes - a straight-A girl, and I took pride in my studies.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • Girl
  • Pride
  • Shoes

• Ultimately, education in its real sense is the pursuit of truth. It is an endless journey through knowledge and enlightenment.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Real
  • Truth
  • Knowledge

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• Non-violence and truth are inseparable and presuppose one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Truth
  • Violence
  • Another

• Cultural industries will be the next engine for growth after real estate, and Wanda will make cultural industries our long-term focus.

  

  Wang Jianlin
  • Long
  • Real
  • Focus

• Strange – I'm not much of a film person. I love watching films, but they don't stay with me the way books do. Stranger still, because my husband is a screenwriter!

  

  Dani Shapiro
  • Way
  • Film
  • Person

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• Before we had the kids, my husband and I were traveling a lot and working and really enjoying our lives and each other. We both love the theater and books and travel and so we were really having a lot of fun.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Kids
  • Fun
  • Travel

• Just know that as long as your family thinks you're amazing, then you really are amazing.

  

  Sabrina Bryan
  • Long
  • Family
  • Know

• I'm not interested in disposable music.

  

  Taraji P. Henson
  • Music
  • Not Interested

• I adored my father.

  

  Nancy Wake
  • Father
  • Adored

• One of the great things about Lanai is that the weather is always fabulous. Always 82 degrees and sunny. The problem is that, like California now, Lanai needs more water.

  

  Larry Ellison
  • Great
  • Water
  • California

• Forgiveness in any aspect of something that is complex is the greatest tool.

  

  Kate Hudson
  • Forgiveness
  • Greatest
  • Tool

• I get better roles in television. I'm not going to do a lesser role just to be in a feature film.

  

  Jaclyn Smith
  • Film
  • Better
  • Television

• It seems to me that, in every culture, I come across a chapter headed Wisdom. And then I know exactly what is going to follow: Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Culture
  • Wisdom

• Let us take things as we find them: let us not attempt to distort them into what they are not... We cannot make facts. All our wishing cannot change them. We must use them.

  

  John Henry Newman

• Und doch sehr oft, wenn wir uns von dem Beabsichtigten für ewig getrennt sehen, haben wir schon auf unserm Wege irgend ein anderes Wünschenswerthe gefunden, etwas uns Gemäßes, mit dem uns zu begnügen wir eigentlich geboren sind.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

• Jon Ronson makes me laugh. I've read all of his books.

  

  Bill Hader

• There are many things in life that you feel you need such as television, magazines, teachers telling that you have to make money and be successful, but if you have some kind of hope, something to hold onto, then all this will no longer be important. If you can make your next day better than the previous one, then you will see what it really means something to you and not everything that people think you need for your life.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • People
  • Life
  • Important

• The wonderful thing about television is the immediate impact of pictures of current events.

  

  Will McDonough
  • Television
  • Wonderful
  • Events

• Television has been the single greatest shaper of emptiness.

  

  Ravi Zacharias
  • Single
  • Television
  • Emptiness