William Lyon Phelps Quotes

My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

William Lyon Phelps

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• That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Service
  • Own
  • Which

• When you write, you don't have the social constraints of having people in front of you, so you talk about abstract matters.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • People
  • You
  • Talk

• I thought I had to write literature and add my name to the list of great Southern storytellers. Fortunately for me, no one wanted to read any of those stories. They got rejected by everyone. Sometimes, I would get a note saying they liked the writing, but the story simply didn't work.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Work
  • Great
  • Writing

• I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.

  

  AJ McLean
  • People
  • Trying
  • Eye

• I'm under pressure with all my films. And the reason we are always under pressure is because it's only in our profession that months and even years of hard work is judged by the first show on Friday.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Work
  • Pressure
  • Hard Work

• Reason is the natural order of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Truth
  • Imagination
  • Meaning

• Life is about balance, and we all have to make the effort in areas that we can to enable us to make a difference.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Life
  • Effort
  • Balance

• When someone tells me about Malala, the girl who was shot by the Taliban - that's my definition for her - I don't think she's me. Now I don't even feel as if I was shot. Even my life in Swat feels like a part of history or a movie I watched. Things change. God has given us a brain and a heart which tell us how to live.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Life
  • God
  • Live

• 'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Character
  • Game
  • Balance

• I have absolutely no empathy for camels. I didn't care for being abused in the Middle East by those horrible, horrible, horrible creatures. They don't like people. It's not at all like the relationship between horses and humans.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • People
  • Relationship
  • Care

• Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.

  

  Damien Hirst
  • Sometimes
  • Better
  • Drunk

• While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.

  

  Gabourey Sidibe
  • Real
  • Story
  • Someone

• Having a credible existence in the private sector frees people to be able to be better public servants. You're less concerned with... toeing the party line and more concerned with doing what is right.

  

  Walker Stapleton
  • People
  • Party
  • Doing

• Probably the geekiest attribute that I have of them all is that I've always had a hard time meeting friends. Like no matter where I grew up and I moved around, I always had a hard time.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Up
  • Time
  • Friends

• When I was young, no one got married. Now, all the young people, they want to get married, they want security. Now that my children's friends are getting married, I go to more weddings than I ever did when I was young.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Children
  • Friends

• So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.

  

  Ian Anthony Dale
  • Good
  • Trying
  • Money

• You all look like happy campers to me. Happy campers you are, happy campers you have been, and, as far as I am concerned, happy campers you will always be.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Happy
  • Campers

• When I feel my blood sugar getting off, I drink a glass of kale juice. It's so disgusting you don't want to eat anything!

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Want
  • Feel
  • Blood

• This generation of filmmakers is very good. They're seasoned, for some reason.

  

  Dennis Farina
  • Good

• I think more and more today there are two ways to enjoy shopping: the first is the discovery, the feeling of searching and finding, and shopping with the eyes too, using all the senses and enjoying the moment - what I call the "slow shopping" experience; and then the second, of course, is e-commerce, which is contrary to the first but as enjoyable.

  

  Carla Sozzani
  • Feeling
  • Eyes
  • Shopping

• Everything's pretty consistent in the industry, you know. There's a couple of naysayers, whatever, people who don't agree. But for the most part a lot of people believe in the new class of MC's that coming to the game.

  

  Wale
  • People
  • Believe
  • Game

• If your body is damaged, wounded, it can be fixed, but if inside, mentally, you are wounded you cannot fix it, it's hard.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • You
  • Body
  • Fix

• When I work in the theater, you know you'll get this almost devotional, religious experience where you're breaking bread with everyone every day.

  

  Adam Rapp
  • Work
  • Experience
  • Religious

• My religious faith remains in possession of the field only after prolonged civil war with my naturally skeptical mind.

  

  William Lyon Phelps
  • Mind
  • War
  • Religious