Joseph Barber Lightfoot Quotes

But there is another danger besetting your path. I mean the error of regarding your own capacities instead of your work, of putting self-consciousness in place of God.

Joseph Barber Lightfoot

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: theologian
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 13, 1828 - December 21, 1889

Topics

WorkGodPathPlaceMeanOwn

I don't mind that I am not necessarily a household name, because I think my characters have outshined me. That was by design. And I'm not wanting for appreciation.

Jeffrey Wright

I AmAppreciationMindMeThink

British culture is very cynical sometimes of overt displays of sentimentality, and I think that becomes almost a suspicion of emotion, or a suspicion of someone making a grand statement. It is always easier to be ironic, or 'meta', or coolly postmodern. But I think there is such a thing as authentic sentimentality.

Matt Haig

CultureThinkSomeoneSometimes

We feel a special bond with Sicily and its people - in fact, our first campaigns were shot in Sicily, like the one shot in Vucciria Sicilian historical market We enjoyed showing the faces and the characters that crowd that beautiful market every day.

Stefano Gabbana

BeautifulDayPeopleBondFeel

Capitalism saved the world, and there is even a heretical theory now, moving up from the level of individuals to countries: countries that trade more and have more open economies are less likely to fight wars and less likely to have genocides.

Steven Pinker

FightMovingWorldCapitalismNow

The social media bit is really about documenting process. I like the dialogue if it's constructive, but I'm now at a crossroads. I've accumulated a lot of followers, and it's great, but I'm also at that teetering point where people are feeling themselves a little too much, commenting a little too much.

Toyin Odutola

GreatSocial MediaPeopleMediaNow

I'm an actor. And like a lot of actors, it's very important that everybody loves you all the time.

Romola Garai

TimeYouImportantActorLikeVery

The entire deaths of Vietnam died in vain. And they're dying in vain right this very second. And you know what's worse than a soldier dying in vain? It's more soldiers dying in vain. That's what's worse.

Mike Gravel

YouKnowMoreSoldiersRightDying

For so many people, television and movies may be the only way they understand people who aren't like them.

Michelle Obama

PeopleTelevisionMoviesUnderstand

Stay out of the loop, the club, the inner circle.

Michael Leunig

CircleClubOutStayLoopInner

My son, who is five, was adopted from Ethiopia. My daughter was adopted from Guatemala. Her parents died of typhoid and malaria. We got her from an orphanage. They are the lights of my life.

Lisa Kristine

LifeSonDaughterParentsMy Life

Film is not as exhilarating, not as physically, mentally, or spiritually challenging, as theatre.

Joseph Fiennes

TheatreFilmSpirituallyMentally

Francis Lawrence is an astonishing filmmaker, an incredibly gifted visual filmmaker. I have great respect for his work.

David Slade

WorkRespectGreatGiftedFilmmaker

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