Chris Prentiss Quotes

The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the distress and the difficulty we experience. Not only that, but when we label events as ‘bad,' we fail to perceive the benefit that is waiting for us.

Chris Prentiss

• Experience
• Universe
• Mistakes
• Benefit
• Difficulties

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• When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.

  

  Harlan Coben
  • Good
  • Why
  • Pretty

• I think I'm a lot funnier and goofier than people were able to see on 'Dancing With the Stars.'

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • People
  • Think
  • Stars

• The Oscar or the Emmy says you've reached a level of competence in this business, and I would love to have one.

  

  O. J. Simpson
  • Business
  • Level
  • Reached

• Who cares about the clouds when we're together? Just sing a song and bring the sunny weather.

  

  Dale Evans
  • Together
  • Song
  • Relationship

• In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Energy
  • Product
  • Quantity

• It's funny: when I set out to create the world of 'California,' I didn't give the type of apocalypse much thought... I simply set my two characters, Cal and Frida, in a depleted world and moved through it intuitively.

  

  Edan Lepucki
  • World
  • Funny
  • Thought

• I am aware that in presenting myself as the advocate of the Indians and their rights, I shall stand very much alone.

  

  Sam Houston
  • Alone
  • Rights
  • Indians

• I took a whole stunt course and pretty much got certified as a stunt driver. It's ridiculous how easy it is once you understand the car and know how to do it.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Pretty
  • Know
  • Car

• Part of any solution to get our economy going should include steps to free up our small businesses by peeling back unnecessarily burdensome regulations, ending the continual threats of tax hikes, and addressing the cloud of federal debt that hangs over our economy.

  

  Sam Graves
  • Up
  • Free
  • Small

• The honest truth is no, I don't feel like I arrived. I don't feel like I'm worthy. My publicist says I'm not supposed to say that, but I don't feel I'm there yet.

  

  Adam Green
  • Truth
  • Feel
  • Truth Is

• An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Leaving
  • Outside
  • Washington

• So far, 44 States, or 88 percent of the States, have enacted laws providing that marriage shall consist of a union between a man and a woman. Only 75 percent of the States are required to approve a constitutional amendment.

  

  Jack Kingston
  • Man
  • Marriage
  • Woman

• Will Generation X and the Millennials do a better job running the world than the boomers have? Let's hope so.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • World
  • Job
  • Hope

• Most of us are at war with ourselves, are our own worst enemies. We expect a great deal of ourselves, yet we do not put ourselves in a condition to achieve great things. We are either too indulgent to our bodies, or we are not indulgent enough.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Great
  • War
  • Achieve

• My mom got me into some commercials, and I basically, I guess, just got out of my shell I was in at the time because I can't remember. I've just been blessed ever since.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Mom

• I feel I'm an actress who sings a bit.

  

  Bea Arthur
  • Feel
  • Actress
  • I Feel

• In the beginning I just wanted to survive. For the first three years, we made zero revenue. I remember many times when I was trying to pay up, the restaurant owner would say, 'Your bill was paid.' And there would be a note saying, 'Mr. Ma, I'm your customer on the Alibaba platform. I made a lot of money, and I know you don't, so I paid the bill.'

  

  Jack Ma
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Money

• Economic disasters or foolish wars are hardly guaranteed to bring about large-scale individual self-examination or renew the appeal of truly participatory democracy.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Democracy
  • Individual
  • Renew

• The press don't wake up in the morning simply to be a mouthpiece for pols - they're out to uncover and expose news. That often is at odds with what politicians are setting out to do - it's both symbiotic and antagonistic. They need each other, they work in concert with one another, they work against one another.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Up
  • Work
  • Morning

• There's no reason to think that you'll be capable of loyalty to a diet until you address your basic disloyalty toward yourself.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Reason
  • Loyalty
  • Address

• I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Animal
  • Species
  • Copying

• Everything turns on pain; the rest is accessory, even nonexistent, for we remember only what hurts. Painful sensations being the only real ones, it is virtually useless to experience others.

  

  Emil Cioran
  • Real
  • Experience
  • Remember

• I like the idea of everybody knowing each other; you know why you're doing things.

  

  Daniel Woodrell
  • Why

• The Universe doesn’t make mistakes. Everything is happening just as it should. It’s only our perception of difficulties that causes us the distress and the difficulty we experience. Not only that, but when we label events as ‘bad,' we fail to perceive the benefit that is waiting for us.

  

  Chris Prentiss
  • Experience
  • Universe
  • Mistakes