David Sills Quotes

If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that.

David Sills

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• I was born in New York City. But my family moved when I was still an infant. Except for a year and half when we lived in Youngstown, Ohio, I grew up in small towns in Pennsylvania. I graduated from high school in Farrell, Pennsylvania.

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Up
  • Family
  • School

• The digital revolution has also meant a revolution in access to information. This puts more power and knowledge into the hands of nonexperts.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Revolution

• Act because you love to act.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • You
  • Act

• Endurance in ministry is rooted in the eternal perspective. The absence of an eternal perspective makes you vulnerable to losing heart.

  

  C. J. Mahaney
  • Heart
  • Perspective
  • Losing

• When I am going out, I am in ponytail, jeans, tees. I am just like any girl-next-door. Beauty is not external; it's internal. When you are a happy soul, you would be beautiful any time.

  

  Rakul Preet Singh
  • Time
  • Happy
  • Soul

• As a filmmaker, you realize that places have character based on their history as much as a face does or an actor does.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Character
  • History
  • Face

• Christian, learn from Christ how you ought to love Christ. Learn a love that is tender, wise, strong; love with tenderness, not passion, wisdom, not foolishness, and strength, lest you become weary and turn away from the love of the Lord.

  

  Saint Bernard
  • Passion
  • Wise
  • Christ

• The trouble with conservatives is that too many of them come to Washington thinking they are going to drain the swamp, only to discover that Washington is a hot tub.

  

  M. Stanton Evans
  • Thinking
  • Trouble
  • Discover

• When we look at a thing, we must examine its essence and treat its appearance merely as an usher at the threshold, and once we cross the threshold, we must grasp the essence of the thing; this is the only reliable and scientific method of analysis.

  

  Mao Zedong

• I am a little shy of any assumption of moral indignation. There is always in it an element of self-satisfaction which makes it awkward to anyone who has a sense of humour.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Moral
  • Assumption

• Much of what the Bible demands can be comprised in one imperative: Remember!

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Remember
  • Bible

• An academic dialect is perfected when its terms are hard to understand and refer only to one another.

  

  Mason Cooley

• There are a lot of actors out there who don't have an arena to present their stuff.

  

  Joe Penny
  • Present

• I've chosen all my films very carefully. I know that I've had better parts in some films than in others. But the films I do are the ones I want to see when I read the screenplays. I guess you can basically say that I've just done things I loved when I read them.

  

  Mary Steenburgen
  • Done

• I'm not a big reggae dude. I have maybe two other reggae albums.

  

  Dave Willis

• As an actor, to go and see those shows - great plays like 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' and Clifford Odets's 'Golden Boy' - it's so exhilarating. I'd personally love to perform the role of Jerry in Edward Albee's 'The Zoo Story.' He's a transient, lost soul, and an example of humanity at its rawest.

  

  Keegan Allen
  • Great
  • Soul
  • Lost

• Each age tries to form its own conception of the past. Each age writes the history of the past anew with reference to the conditions uppermost in its own time.

  

  Frederick Jackson Turner
  • Time
  • History
  • Age

• I like to prepare for my roles well, so you can call me a method actor to an extent.

  

  Keerthy Suresh

• Everyone asks me, 'Why do you choose such subversive or shocking themes?' but when I'm alone in my office, I'm not like, 'OK I'm going to shock.' I want to write about a character who fascinates me, someone who I don't understand.

  

  Leila Slimani
  • Why
  • Character
  • Alone

• I met Jack Nicholson when I was about 10 at a party of my uncle's, and it wasn't so much that I knew his films because I was small, but he wore sunglasses inside at night and I thought that must mean he was very important and was suitably star struck by his charismatic presence.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • Important
  • Night
  • Small

• God, who was James Mason, to Noah 'Noah, stop what you're doing and build me an ark!' Noah, who was Sean Connery 'I'm working on a speed boat at the moment. Much more exciting. It'll really kick ass, give great photographs for the people in Bible.'

  

  Eddie Izzard
  • People
  • Great
  • God

• If you are sure that He is calling and you can be sure that He will also remove the barriers that would preclude your service, in His perfect timing. Rest in that.

  

  David Sills
  • Perfect
  • Calling
  • Missionary