Edmund Clowney Quotes

We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.

Edmund Clowney

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• The sole ultimate factor in human decisions is physical force. This we must learn, however repugnant the idea may seem, if we are to protect ourselves and our institutions. Reliance on anything else is fallacious and ruinous.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • May
  • Learn
  • Human

• Honestly speaking, I don't like my films. When I watch them, I see a lot of scope for improvement, so if I were to see any of my films, like 'Dhoom,' I might say... 'It would have been better if...' or 'had it been...' and this is all about evolving.

  

  Abhishek Bachchan
  • Better
  • See
  • Improvement

• Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Character
  • Lost
  • Suffering

• I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • People
  • Money
  • Spiritual

• Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.

  

  Barry McGuigan
  • Boxing
  • Very
  • Both Sides

• Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Great
  • Career
  • Choices

• South African literature is a literature in bondage. It is a less-than-fully-human literature. It is exactly the kind of literature you would expect people to write from prison.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • People
  • Literature
  • Prison

• I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.

  

  Laura Mennell
  • Beautiful
  • Dream
  • Like

• Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.

  

  Larry King
  • Money
  • Love
  • Fame

• Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.

  

  Laure Manaudou
  • People
  • Time
  • Goal

• I came to running late. It was something I had always wanted to do, but I always end up getting hurt. It didn't occur to me that I could actually slow down and walk a little bit!

  

  Veronica Webb
  • Up
  • Running
  • Hurt

• I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Education
  • College
  • Wrestling

• My screenwriting credits in my career are probably not dissimilar to some other ones in the sense that a lot of the scripts you write don't get made, and the ones that do get made are certainly - as a writer, they're not your vision.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Career
  • You
  • Vision

• Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.

  

  Adam Levine Maroon 5
  • Me
  • Amazing
  • Nobody

• I never like to be the same, whether it be comedy or drama, funny or serious.

  

  Faith Prince
  • Funny
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• Liberty is the most jealous and exacting mistress that can beguile the brain and soul of man. She will have nothing from him who will not give her all. She knows that his pretended love serves but to betray. But when once the fierce heat of her quenchless, lustrous eyes has burned into the victim's heart, he will know no other smile but hers.

  

  Clarence Darrow
  • Heart
  • She
  • Soul

• 'Pasadena' erred on the side being too dark. That was probably the one thing about it, in retrospect, why it didn't get picked up.

  

  Mark Valley
  • Up
  • Why
  • Dark

• A cocktail done right can really show your guests that you care.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Done

• People in the fashion industry have used the press a lot more than people in the film industry, because you have nothing to sell except for the image: The image is everything.

  

  Elle Macpherson
  • People
  • Fashion

• You don't need your eyes to love. You just feel it inside you.

  

  R. J. Palacio
  • Eyes
  • Eye
  • Needs

• Lord God, let us never hesitate or play the coward, let us never forget the duty which we have taken upon us.... We are all proud that through God's powerful aid we have become once more true Germans.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • Forget
  • Hesitate
  • Lord God

• One time, I came off stage and a guy named Roman Decare, God rest his soul, he was a comic. 'Louie, if you do that family stuff, and you're a clean comic on stage, you'll become famous.' And, for some reason, a switch clicked, and I started doing the family stuff, and it became a giant part of my life.

  

  Louie Anderson
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• We worship so that we live in response to and from this centre, the living God.

  

  Edmund Clowney
  • God
  • Worship
  • Response