Evenson And Jensen Quotes & Sayings

Someone has said that planning is the place where man shows himself most like God. Nothing is more godlike than the planner, the thinker, the organizer. He is the one who draws the blueprint for success. He is the one who builds the roadway on which accomplishment will travel. It is likely that our greatest opportunity is to have a good set of definitely worked-out objectives that are fully believed in and about which firm determinations have been made. — Sterling W. Sill

Few ever lived to old age, and fewer still ever became distinguished, who were not in the habit of early rising. — John Todd

If the Wise be the happy man ... he must be virtuous too; for, without virtue, happiness cannot be. This then is the true scope of all academical emulation. — Thomas Jefferson

Character actors aren't a brand in the same way that high-profile leading men are. — Alfred Molina

I always tried to play my hunches. — Gene Tierney

Big ideas, big ambitious projects need to be embedded within culture at a level deeper than the political winds. It needs to be deeper than the economic fluctuations that could turn people against an expensive project because they're on an unemployment line and can't feed their families. — Neil DeGrasse Tyson

The distance between what you know and don't is your mission.
The distance between what you do and should is your task.
The distance between what you say and ought is your responsibility.
The distance between who you are and should be is your assignment. — Matshona Dhliwayo

I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. — William Allen White

I never lie," I said offhand. "At least not to those I don't love. — Anne Rice

Sweet Honey of Dagda, now I was babbling. — Kevin Hearne

The greatest legacy is that which benefits the widest number of people for the longest period without limit to value. No one but the Prophet Muhammad was given that role as the seal of God's message. — Cat Stevens

Kept talking about how she's studying every holy book she can get her hands on, aiming to understand God's word. I quoted St. Augustine to her. 'If you understand it, it isn't God.' Gave her a cup of chamomile tea. — Jeanne DuPrau

Thank you to my wonderful actors, the triangle of man-love which is Colin Firth, Geoffrey Rush and me. — Tom Hooper

May all beings everywhere plagued with sufferings of body and mind quickly be freed from their illnesses. May those frightened cease to be afraid, and may those bound be free. May the powerless find power, and may people think of befriending each other. May those who find themselves in trackless, fearful wilderness- the children, the aged, the unprotected- be guarded by beneficent celestials, and may they swiftly attain Buddhahood. — Gautama Buddha