Denis Quotes & Sayings

All Jews, however, in proportion as they are one with the leaders and rulers of their race, will oppose the influence of the supernatural Life of Grace in society and will be an active ferment of Naturalism. — Denis Fahey

Life is not accountable to us. We are accountable to life. — Denis Waitley

Anthony Mackie in 'The Hurt Locker' is everything an actor can hope to be. So rock steady in his portrayal that you immediately forget every performance he may have previously given, and focus only on the character in front of you. — Denis Leary

I have performed for thousands when they found me exotic, the vogue, daring, but I have danced, at any given time, for about ten people ... They were the ones that left the theater forever different from the way they were when they came in. All of my long, long life, I have danced for those ten. — Ruth St. Denis

When you write about real life, there's always a chance that somebody involved is going to see it and get upset. — Denis Leary

Zeroes are important. A million seconds ago was last week. A billion seconds ago, Richard Nixon resigned the presidency. A trillion seconds ago was 30,000 BC, and early humans were using stone tools. — Denis Hayes

I think you cannot make films without choosing everything. — Claire Denis

The primary success factor is knowing how to learn from others and rely on yourself. — Denis Waitley

Shoes have a meaning. — Claire Denis

Start with scout locations first. — Claire Denis

I've always criticised American policy when I've disagreed with it. Just as I've criticised British policy. I was violently anti-Suez and pro-American in 1956, just as I was violently anti-Soviet on the invasion of Hungary which took place at the same time. — Denis Healey

The only limits on human achievement are self-imposed. — Denis Waitley

The greatest choice we have is to think before we act and then take action toward our life goals every day. Our problems result not only from our lack of action, but from our action without thought. — Denis Waitley

Anyone who takes it upon himself, on his private authority, to break a bad law, thereby authorizes everyone else to break the good ones. — Denis Diderot

You really want to have a back-up plan, so when you don't feel like acting, or you're getting older and settling down, you can produce your own stuff. So that's when I set about forming my own company and getting creative control. — Denis Leary

Everything that is past is either a learning experience to grow on, a beautiful memory to reflect on, or a motivating factor to act upon. — Denis Waitley

By thinking and acting affirmatively in this minute, you will influence the hour, the day, and in time, your entire life. — Denis Waitley

One composition is meagre, though it has many figures; another is rich, though it has few. — Denis Diderot

When science, art, literature, and philosophy are simply the manifestation of personality they are on a level where glorious and dazzling achievements are possible, which can make a man's name live for thousands of years. — Denis Diderot

Healey's First Law Of Holes: When in one, stop digging. — Denis Healey

It's pretty crazy. I was thinking about that today, how 'True Blood' has penetrated so much of the cultural zeitgeist. It's truly amazing; it's incredible! The cover of 'Rolling Stone' is major. What's next, the cover of 'Vanity Fair?' When I'm in a 'New Yorker' cartoon, then I will feel like I have made it. — Denis O'Hare

The United States is proud to be the first country to recognize the existence of a Jewish State - just 11 minutes after Israel's independence was declared. — Denis McDonough

The cinema should be human and be part of people's lives; it should focus on ordinary existences in sometimes extraordinary situations and places. That is what really motivates me. — Claire Denis

The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence. — Denis Waitley

People praise virtue, but they hate it, they run away from it. It freezes you to death, and in this world you've got to keep your feet warm. — Denis Diderot

THE GREATEST RISK IN LIFE IS TO WAIT FOR AND DEPEND UPON OTHERS FOR YOUR OWN SECURITY. — Denis Waitley

I really want to do a western film. It's one of my favorite movie genres of all time. — Denis Leary

There's no way around it - drama is very difficult to shoot. It's very heavy and something that you carry with you for the course of the day. — Denis Leary

But if you will recall the history of our civil troubles, you will see half the nation bathe itself, out of piety, in the blood of the other half, and violate the fundamental feelings of humanity in order to sustain the cause of God: as though it were necessary to cease to be a man in order to prove oneself religious! — Denis Diderot

My charity is in the business of helping firefighters in any way that we can. For instance, after 9/11 we were the second-fastest charity to raise and distribute money to the widows and surviving family members of the 343 firefighters who died that day. — Denis Leary

On my arrival in U.S.S.R. in 1934, I remember that I was struck by the enormous proportion of Jewish functionaries everywhere. In the Press, and diplomatic circles, it was difficult to find non-Jews ... In France many believe, even amongst the Communists, that, thanks to the present anti-Jewish purge ... Russia is no longer Israel's chosen land ... Those who think that are making a mistake. — Denis Fahey

You don't grow up naive in Africa. — Claire Denis

In the plays - that's where I go crazy. But my prose has a much lighter touch; it's not trying to thrill with language, just to be more truthful. I'm not concerned with the accuracy of anything. We don't get to the truth of anything with facts. — Denis Johnson

Whether you are buying a car or casting a ballot, choosing a job or planning a family, follow your moral compass. Don't let others define you. Don't let advertisers mold you; don't let zealots ensnare you; don't let conventional wisdom trap you ... you are part of a much larger whole. — Denis Hayes

Virtually nothing can stop a man who has a goal clearly in sight. — Denis Waitley

Fusing the doctrines of Plotinus and Proclus with the creeds and beliefs of Christianity, Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite combined the Neo-Platonic conviction of the fundamental oneness and luminous aliveness of the world with the Christian dogmas of the triune God, original sin and redemption. The universe is created, animated and unified by the perpetual self-realization of what Plotinus had called "the One," what the Bible had called "the Lord," and what he calls "the superessential Light. — Erwin Panofsky

The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media. — Denis Leary

The arts, like language, emerged spontaneously and universally in similar forms across cultures, employing imaginative and intellectual capacities that had clear survival value. — Denis Dutton

You can't teach somebody how to be funny. You're either funny, or you ain't. — Denis Leary

I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother. — Denis Johnson

Now he slept soundly through the nights, and often he dreamed of trains, and often of one particular train: He was on it; he could smell the coal smoke; a world went by. And then he was standing in that world as the sound of the train died away. A frail familiarity in these scenes hinted to him that they came from his childhood. Sometimes he woke to hear the sound of the Spokane International fading up the valley and realized he'd been hearing the locomotive as he dreamed. — Denis Johnson

I suppose I am interested in the variety of human life - how people live. I am most interested in individuals and how they respond to challenges or to difficulties or just to each other. I am curious about people. — Claire Denis

Physical expression was my first language: Before I was an actor, I was a dancer, an acrobat, a mime and a street performer. — Denis Lavant

I will lead you to the City Hall, clean out the police force, hang the Prosecuting Attorney, burn every book that has a particle of law in it, then enact new laws for the workingmen. — Denis Kearney

Personal development is the belief that you are worth the effort, time, and energy needed to develop yourself. — Denis Waitley

In my writing, I want to be laid bare as a human being. — Denis Johnson

Touch is the magic wand of intimacy. Love is keeping in touch. — Denis Waitley

I have 30 years of experience working with Leos Carax, so all the films of Leos Carax are unusual or unique. I look at them as a journey: a journey which is very personal to Leos. — Denis Lavant

Today, in 2014, Victoria is a better, stronger, more financially secure state than when we came to government four years ago. — Denis Napthine

Goals are like stepping-stones to the stars. They should never be used to put a ceiling or a limit on achievement — Denis Waitley

No woman can be completely happy at any one moment in time. They're always anticipating the next thing to argue or complain about. — Denis Leary

I've been acting for a long time, and I've done a lot of things, and I've been maintaining my anonymity pretty well. I get recognized once a week, at most, here and there, so I'm reluctant to give that up. — Denis O'Hare

Is one changing all the time, then?' she asks. 'Am I changing - without knowing it? — Denis Mackail

Evil is such a simplistic way to describe any character, be it Iago or Caliban, or any character from history. — Denis O'Hare

Mind what you do; if you deceive me once I shall never believe you again. — Denis Diderot

And therefore I looked down into the great pity of a person's life on this earth. I don't mean that we all end up dead, that's not the great pity. I mean that he couldn't tell me what he was dreaming, and I couldn't tell him what was real. — Denis Johnson

Most people spend most of their time on low-priority busywork because it requires no additional knowledge, skills, or imagination-or courage. In a word, it's easier. — Denis Waitley

Anybody who knows me has said, 'I had a Denis O'Hare moment.' I suppose in the kindest instance it means standing up for yourself. In the unkindest, it means the crazy guy in the street. — Denis O'Hare

Worrying about tomorrow is the best way to screw up today. — Denis Leary

"Yeah, well, if you eat red meat, it stays in your colon for fifteen years!" Good! I paid for it; I want it in my ass, okay? I want them to find a meat sweater from my esophagus to my asshole when they open me up in the end! "This guy's covered in meat! He's Meat-Man! He's Meat-Tracheotomy-Man!" — Denis Leary

Why do humans make art? It's how we evolved. — Denis Dutton

I was 'impressed' by Hugh Jackman for five seconds the first time I met him, but as soon as he opened his mouth and shook my hand, I felt comfortable. He made me feel like I was one of his friends. — Denis Villeneuve

I just think it's difficult for them to see the forest for the trees right now, which I can't blame them for, given the circumstances they found themselves in. — Denis Leary

We've got to have a dream if we are going to make a dream come true. — Denis Waitley

Sunday afternoons at a parish center - or a community center - is familiar territory for me. — Denis McDonough

American foreign policy is not understood by the vast majority of American people. And that this is due to a media that in this country is suppressed by Washington and by the owners of this media, who often tend to be corporate entities close to the [White House] and very often are arms manufacturers with a vested interest in chaos [in] the Middle East. And as a result Americans do not actually get both sides of the story. — Denis Halliday

I will not bond. I will not share. I refuse to nurture. — Denis Leary

If reason be a gift of Heaven, and we can say as much of faith, Heaven has certainly made us two gifts not only incompatible, but in direct contradiction to each other. In order to solve the difficulty, we are compelled to say either that faith is a chimera or that reason is useless. — Denis Diderot

It is better to read a little and ponder a lot than to read a lot and ponder a little. — Denis Parsons Burkitt

Happiness, wealth, and success are by-products of goal setting, they cannot be the goal themselves. — Denis Waitley

I think we should take Iraq and Iran and combine them into one country and call it Irate. All the pissed off people live in one place and get it over with. — Denis Leary

When I was doing 'Beau Travail,' I listened a lot to Benjamin Britten. — Claire Denis

Dad has shamelessly played the Mom card. Against which there is no defense. — Denis Markell

What has not been examined impartially has not been well examined. Skepticism is therefore the first step towards truth. — Denis Diderot

Nothing is more dangerous that the politician who uses politics as a surrogate for an unsatisfactory personal life. — Denis Healey

Generally, it's a great exercise to not get stuck in one medium too long because you begin to lose perspective on the peculiar drawbacks and strengths of the medium. For example, if I'm in the back of the stage and I want you to see my emotional change by a flicker of my eyelid, we're all going to be in for a long boring evening. — Denis O'Hare

The coyotes sounded like hurt dogs. They agitated plainly for Christ's return. May they not be heard. — Denis Johnson

Meaning can't change from person to person, and still be true — Denis Johnson

The latest report says the results of an investigation will be released in three or four weeks. That's a long time for fruit flies and the press. — Denis Boyles

It is not human nature we should accuse but the despicable conventions that pervert it. — Denis Diderot

Peter Falk and Denis Leary today walked into a Starbucks and shot 27 people, without any announcement whatsoever. — Denis Leary

You're under pressure when you produce facts. You're working with facts in journalism, but you're under all kinds of formal constraints; there are expectations. — Denis Johnson

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland. — Denis Leary

Listen up, you couch potatoes: each recycled beer can saves enough electricity to run a television for three hours. — Denis Hayes

People saying, 'Life didn't turn out the way I wanted it to.' Welcome to the club. I wanted to be the starting center-fielder for the Boston Red Sox, for chrissakes! — Denis Leary

Very early on, I was writing stories, and I was amazed at Spielberg's movies when I was young. Coming from the countryside, I was so impressed with the way he was able to tell stories and the way he was able to deal with le merveilleux - the wonders. Very quickly, he became for me a massive hero, and he introduced me to the world of a director. — Denis Villeneuve

Happiness is indeed a Eurydice, vanishing as soon as gazed upon. It can exist only in acceptance, and succumbs as soon as it is laid claim to. — Denis De Rougemont

All night the dreamer travels in this region and doesn't realize he's asleep. The differences between the logic of that world and the logic of this waking one are vast. But they feel the same. And isn't that how we recognize logic, by the way it feels? — Denis Johnson

Always give more in service, than you receive in payment, and customers will beat a path to your door. — Denis Waitley

Don't tell people they can do the impossible. Tell people that they can do the possible that they think is impossible. — Denis Waitley

I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what is too deep to find for words. — Ruth St. Denis

The single most outwardly identifiable trait demonstrated by a winning human being is that of positive self-expectation- which is pure and simple optimism. — Denis Waitley

Only a very bad theologian would confuse the certainty that follows revelation with the truths that are revealed. They are entirely different things. — Denis Diderot

It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the most grotesque and dangerous superstition ... regarding government, we would still be groaning under the bonds of feudal government ... regarding morals, we would still be having to learn what is virtue and what is vice. To forbid all these discussions, the only ones worthy of occupying a good mind, is to perpetuate the reign of ignorance and barbarism. — Denis Diderot

Bill Murray doesn't do anything. He barely shows up at the movies he says he's going to do. — Denis Leary

Optimism boosts your energy and focuses your sights on reaching your goals, rather than wallowing in your setbacks. — Denis Waitley

When you nominate for a seat, the expectation is that you serve that district and serve that seat if you are elected. — Denis Napthine

They started calling it The Rape, and it came to stand for everything: for coming together while falling apart; for loving each other and hating everybody else; for moving at breakneck speed while getting nowhere; for freezing in the streets and melting in the rooms of love. — Denis Johnson

How had they met? By chance, like everybody else. What were there names? What's it to you? Where were they coming from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Does anyone really know where they're going? — Denis Diderot

Wealth is only a source of happiness when it is used to do good for others — Denis Waitley