Meisner Acting Method Quotes & Sayings

The pursuit of God is not a part-time, weekend exercise. If it is, chances are you will experience a part-time, weekend freedom. Abiding requires a kind of staying power. The pursuit is relentless. It hungers and thirsts. It pants as the deer after the mountain brook. It takes the kingdom by storm ... The pursuit of God is a pursuit of passion. Indifference will not do. To abide in the Word is to hang on tenaciously. A weak grip will soon slip away. Discipleship requires staying power. We sign up for duration. We do not graduate until heaven. — R.C. Sproul

An independent Ireland would see its own independence in jeopardy the moment it saw the independence of Britain seriously threatened. Mutual self-interest would make the peoples of these two islands, if both independent, the closest possible allies in a moment of real national danger to either. — Eamon De Valera

I think I've lived a pretty hard life. What I mean by hard is that ... I've been kind of reckless with things. I'm a passionate person. I'm a super passionate person. I think there's definitely been sorrow in my life, good and bad. I think it comes through. I hope it comes through in my writing because to me that's what artistry is. — Kip Moore

There is a paradox in fiction that was first noticed by Aristotle in the Poetics. We are drawn to fiction because fiction gives us pleasure. But most of what is actually in fiction is deeply unpleasant: threat, death, despair, anxiety, Sturm und Drang. — Jonathan Gottschall

The last madness I'll probably persist in is to believe myself a poet: it will be up to the critics to cure me. — Gerard De Nerval

The possibilities for immortality are endless. Here you sit reading these words, a butterfly resting on a flower! — Frederick Lenz

Government without a constitution, is a power without a right. — Thomas Paine

The last thing I have to say is that ice is the past tense of water. I've always wanted to write that sentence and now I have. — Rita Mae Brown

Anything to see. I want uniforms canvassing again in the — J.D. Robb

It is this, at its most basic, that makes science a humane pursuit; it acknowledges the commonality of people's experience. — John Charles Polanyi

The hardest part of the day is all the stuff after I open my eyes in the morning. — Jim Gaffigan

My 30 year attempt (and subsequent failure) to reach "normal" has brought me to ponder whether "normal" even exists, or if it is nothing more than delusional grandeur based in the sounds of those sweet sirens drawing my ship in all the wrong directions. — Dan Pearce

You're like, on another level of breathtaking," he whispers. "You destroy me." He leans down, and brushes my lips with his. If I destroy him, then Cooper has mangled my psyche beyond recognition. — Diana Gardin

You don't find cows with names any more and there aren't any farmers like Mr. Dakin, who somehow scratched a living from a herd of six milkers plus a few calves, pigs and hens. — James Herriot

We start off thinking the whole world is about us," Lucy said. "Once you learn how little it cares about you, that's when you stop taking things personal. — Edward W. Robertson