Bill Amend Quotes

When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.

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• When human beings live together, conflict is inevitable. War is not.

  

  Daisaku Ikeda
  • Live
  • War
  • Together

• I remember praying for peace all the time as a kid.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Peace

• All students should have the opportunity to receive their high school diplomas and be fully prepared for college or the workplace.

  

  Magic Johnson
  • School
  • High
  • Opportunity

• I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Work
  • College
  • Movies

• I've never been good at saying no.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Good

• Mix sheer hypocrisy with mediocrity, You play it safe every time.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Time
  • Safe
  • Plays

• Faith by its very nature must be tried, and the real trial of faith is not that we find it difficult to trust God, but that God's character has to be cleared in our own minds. Faith in its actual working out has to go through spells of unsyllabled isolation. Never confound the trial of faith with the ordinary discipline of life. Much that we call the trial of faith is the inevitable result of being alive.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Life
  • God
  • Real

• Once upon a time, an angel and a devil held a wishbone between them. And its snap split the world in two.

  

  Laini Taylor
  • Time
  • World
  • Devil

• On the day long after childhood when I suddenly heard of his death, the sky grew dark above my head. I was walking on a Southern highway, and a friend driving in a pony carriage passed me, stopped and said, "Have you heard that Charles Dickens is dead?" It was as if I had been robbed of one of my dearest friends.

  

  Margaret Elizabeth Sangster
  • Long
  • Friends
  • Death

• When I black out, it's the happiest time of my life.

  

  Artie Lange
  • Life
  • Time
  • Black

• My own view, which does not rely solely on religious faith or even on an original idea, but rather on ordinary common sense, is that establishing binding ethical principles is possible when we take as our starting point the observation that we all desire happiness and wish to avoid suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Faith
  • Desire
  • Wish

• it’s difficult to be curious and unhappy at the same time. Re-igniting

  

  Mark Williams
  • Time
  • Unhappy
  • Curious

• I love love. I love having a lover and being one. The insularity of passion. I love it. I love the way it blurs the distinction between everyone who isn't one's lover.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Way
  • Passion
  • Lovers

• Jesus of Nazareth ushers in not simply a new religious possibility, not simply a new ethic or a new way of salvation, but a new creation.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Jesus
  • Religious

• Here we have 40 million Russian citizens involved in the sphere of agriculture one way or another. This is very important.

  

  Vladimir Putin
  • Important
  • Citizens
  • Agriculture

• Against war it may be said that it makes the victor stupid and the vanquished revengeful.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • War
  • Stupid
  • Revengeful

• Say what you will, but you’re never prepared for the surprise attack.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Attack

• I wrote my first book when I was 15 years old. And my second book '1,2,3 Publish Me!' shows everyone how writing a book is done in just the three secret editing levels I discovered!

  

  Manika
  • Writing
  • Book
  • Secret

• It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • Fall
  • Water
  • Tree

• Lust is a monstrous sin which altereth, marreth, and drieth the body, weakening all the joints and members, making the face bubbled and yellow, shortening life, diminishing memory, understanding, and the very heart.

  

  Claude C. Hopkins
  • Life
  • Heart
  • Understanding

• When you're not allowed to stay up late, the secret is to just wake up really, really early.

  

  Bill Amend
  • Secret
  • Stay Up