Downplaying This World Quotes & Sayings

All the time, I've felt that life is a wager and that I probably was getting more out of leading a bohemian existence as a writer than I would have if I didn't. — Christopher Hitchens

When I want to know what France thinks, I ask myself. — Charles De Gaulle

I did four movies where I gained, like, fifty pounds. I had curly hair, and I had all of this facial hair. I had put on all this weight for these movies, and I did four or five of them back-to-back. Then I cut the weight and I got fit again. I cut my beard and I took away the mustache, and people were like, 'What are you doing?' — A. J. Bowen

Your importance is not in a title, it is in the excellence of your actions. — Patricia Brooks

While many ethnic and religious groups are mainly focused on the afterlife and downplaying this world, Jews view wealth and success as a blessing and gift from God. — H.W. Charles

The devil knows if he can capture your thought life he has won a mighty victory over you. — Smith Wigglesworth

Money can buy you everything to fill your time but it cannot buy time itself. And things are definitely not time. — Carew Papritz

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world — Alphonse De Lamartine

One must understand what people are thinking, feeling and believing in order to enchant them. — Guy Kawasaki