Edward Joseph Young Quotes
High stations tumult, but not bliss create; None think the Great unhappy, but the Great.
Quotes to Explore
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Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.
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'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.
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I love the Army with every bone in my body.
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As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.
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I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.
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Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.
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When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.
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So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.
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I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.
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Ours was the first society openly to define itself in terms of both spirituality and of human liberty. It is that unique self-definition which has given us an exceptional appeal, but it also imposes on us a special obligation, to take on those moral duties which, when assumed, seem invariably to be in our own best interests.
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Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.
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Put it this way: singing is not my day job.
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Opportunity makes a thief.
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Over the course of the game, you can't let negativity get in your head. Any time a guy playing negative upon emotion, it's not going to be a great day.
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The more tools I have, the more freedom I have.
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The Patriot Act allows and provides a basis for an exchange of information.
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I'm happy to work when I've worked, and you've got to take the hard times with the good times. But there are times where I'm not as financially set as one might assume. So you have concerns about, 'Wow, I have this level of notoriety and... I better get a job.'
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I'm really interested in modern history, but to fulfill a History degree at Brown you have to do modern and pre-modern.
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What I like writing about are people's relationships, not necessarily great big dramatic things but the smaller things in life and how they affect characters and challenge and change the people that they are. I do like a happy ending, so my books have to have a happy ending.
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Every great human achievement is preceeded by extended periods of dedicated, concentrated effort.
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High stations tumult, but not bliss create; None think the Great unhappy, but the Great.
