Anything that does not draw us closer to God takes us away from Him.
God knows how many things a man misses by becoming smug and assuming that matters will take their own course.
One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.
I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up.
The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught, to mount the first principles, and take nobody's word about them.
Knowledge born of the finest discrimination takes us to the farthest shore. It is intuitive, omniscient, and beyond all divisions of time and space.
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
There's a reason why bullying takes such a strong form online. People don't have to push back as much as they would in real life.
Everybody needs that one person that takes you to the right place to see all the positives in your life.
I think as an actor you're lucky to have any film take on a life of its own long after it's left the theater.
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
Take steps each day to be sure your life expresses commitment to Jesus.
I will always do stand-up, even if my acting career takes off. Stand-up is my life.
The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.
One has to take initiative in life to achieve what he or she wants.
Nothing in life is so hard that you can't make it easier by the way you take it.
Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.
Designis a revelation to me. It's like taking something that is not alive and giving it form, shape, substance, and life.
Work takes me away from my wife, Sue, and my life in Santa Barbara.
I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely.
There is no evidence that an animal can take on the sophisticated task of deciding to end his life and to communicate that decision to us.
