Top 100 Preston Ely Quotes
#1. Jesus came into our world as a man to embody grace. He left us, the church, to be the body of Christ, not a flock of parakeets that repeat Christian jargon but the ongoing in-the-flesh presence of His grace. We are the evidence that God's grace is more than just words.
Preston Sprinkle
#2. No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time.
Richard Preston
#3. For a man without hobbies, I stand in a wonderful spot, where what I do is my best hobby, and everything else is a poor second.
Robert Preston
#4. Traveling into the unfamiliar is quite an adventure for a blind person. It makes me feel like a real explorer.
Gretchen Preston
#5. Love all, trust a few. Do wrong to none. ~ William Shakespeare
Preston Grant
#6. I do believe that God has his hands on me and that he has work for me to do.
Billy Preston
#7. Very few people stutter when they are standing alone in a room speaking to themselves, so how much did Ted's blindness free him from reacting to the perceptions of others?
Katherine Preston
#8. It is a logical absurdity to equate democracy with freedom in the way that mainstream political philosophers and commentators typically do. A system where individuals and minorities are at the mercy of unconstrained majorities hardly constitutes freedom in any meaningful sense.
Keith Preston
#9. If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.
Preston Brooks
#10. ... tree has had a stroke, and its top dies. A redwood can deal with a stroke. It simply grows a new top in a few centuries.
Richard Preston
#11. Loving your enemy. Doing good things for evil people. Never taking vengeance. Responding to violence with nonviolent love - even if it brings suffering. These are not options, but the primary character traits of those who claim to follow a crucified God.
Preston Sprinkle
#12. Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not obvious that they are linked. Events in a forest occur with precision in the flow of tree time, like the motions of an endless dance. (p. 12)
Richard Preston
#13. The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.
Richard Preston
#14. Too often, preachers encourage us to worship Jesus, but Jesus simply invites us to follow him - his way of life, his way of experiencing God. We are invited to practice the spirituality of Jesus instead of a spirituality or religion about Jesus.
Preston Tama
#15. You will find scraps of paper all over the house when I am designing a new woodcut and woe betide the person who touches one of the scraps. When I have the exact design in my mind, I set the model up, pots and flowers, leaves and background, and begin work.
Margaret Preston
#16. As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did.
Reagan Gomez-Preston
#17. He had done the right thing and that was what counted. That was the best you could do in life. How others took it was beyond his control.
Douglas Preston
#18. The great god Ra, whose shrine once covered acres, is filler now for crossword puzzle makers.
Keith Preston
#19. To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.
Richard Preston
#20. You, sir, are as twisted as a twelve-string banjo. - Willie Nelson to Sheriff Preston Bank
Ray Palla
#21. Tie the knot with me. Be safe with me. Reckless with me. Be who you are with me. Be my wife, Rachel - marry me."
~ Malcolm Kyle Preston Logan Saint
Katy Evans
#22. Interesting people in all times and places tend to do two things well - they straddle boundaries, and they bend public perception.
Preston Lauterbach
#23. The heroines in 'That's What She Said' are flawed, messy, damaged, hilarious and culpable and not really concerned about being acceptable to the audience in any traditional sense, which for me is what makes them all the more gorgeous. And the fearless truth of that is what makes it funny.
Carrie Preston
#24. Still, when Fern fell asleep on Preston's shoulder during the reenactment of Lincoln's assassination at Ford's Theatre, Sam almost lost his lunch, even though they hadn't had lunch yet.
Jennifer Anne Kogler
#25. That's one of the tragedies of this life - that the men who are most in need of a beating up are always enormous.
Preston Sturges
#26. The Beatles did treat me as a member of the group. And that was a great honor, you know?
Billy Preston
#27. Film is the greatest educational medium the world has ever known.
Preston Sturges
#28. All that is required of you is an open mind and a little patience.
F.K. Preston
#29. That's the beautiful thing about food, it breaks down the barriers.
Matt Preston
#30. I loved all movies, literally. I certainly loved 'Shane' and 'Roxie Hart.' Later on, when I was less of a kid, I loved 'L'Avventura' and 'Persona' and all Fellini movies and like everybody else I loved John Ford. Then and now, I loved Preston Sturges, maybe above anyone.
Mike Nichols
#31. God rescues sinners, losers, victims - those who know they can't help themselves.
Preston Sprinkle
#32. I strongly believe as a mother, as does my husband, that there are certain contributing factors that lead to autism and some of it is very much the chemicals in our environment and in our food,
Kelly Preston
#33. But if we never hug a harlot, befriend a beggar, or forgive our enemy seventy times seven, then we confess grace with our lips but mock it with our lives.
Preston Sprinkle
#34. I have never done anything but my very best work for anyone, and to do this and retain my first fine enthusiasm over a period of thirty years has required a rather special set of working conditions.
Preston Sturges
#35. There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows.
Douglas Preston
#36. The mandalas were meant to be objects of contemplation, aids to meditation, their proportions magically balanced to purify and calm the mind. To stare at a mandala was to experience, if only briefly, the nothingness that is at the heart of enlightenment.
Douglas Preston
#38. I worked as a parking lot attendant for a while and a delivery boy and two or three other things, but none of them seemed just right.
Robert Preston
#39. Whatever happens to the great systems of nature will also be what happens to us.
Richard Preston
#40. I think the biggest lesson that I've learned is that no one owes you anything. It doesn't matter if you've worked with this person, or you have a piece of work that you think is great. It doesn't mean they're going to agree with you and give you money to do it.
Reagan Gomez-Preston
#41. JEAN
Boy, would I like to see you give some old harpie the three in one!
COLONEL
Don't be vulgar, Jane. Let us be crooked, but never common.
Preston Sturges
#42. There are things we cannot vocalise because the repercussions of particular thoughts have the power to break lives.
F.K. Preston
#43. If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
Richard Preston
#44. I once cured an amateur skydiver of acute acrophobia. Now you could say he was all right because he was able to jump, but you could also say he was not all right because he was so stoned he neglected to open his parachute.
Robert Preston
#45. Botanists have a tradition of never revealing the exact location of a rare plant. Contact between humans and rare plants is generally risky for the plants.
Richard Preston
#46. The analytical nature of science gives us the ability to perceive the anatomy of the universe and every molecule in it, but it is the human imagination that gives it life.
Louisa Preston
#48. There are bigger stars out there than me. But I went through my s-, as people do as they get older.
Reagan Gomez-Preston
#49. God pity the tortured hearts that will pant through this night! And the agony of the poor wife who has heard that her husband is really killed!
Margaret Junkin Preston
#50. The premieres are, kind of exciting, especially to Ella, who loves limousines.
Kelly Preston
#51. Everything he did, he did well, and as a result he was an accomplished asshole indeed.
Douglas Preston
#52. Preston Sturges is one of my favorites. I learned about dialogue and timing from him - louder, faster, funnier. But I do love Mel Brooks.
Clara Mamet
#53. He found Pendergast's cool gaze on him, and he fidgeted. He'd forgotten about those eyes. They made you feel like you had just been stripped of your secrets.
Douglas Preston
#54. Green darners never attack people, but they have been seen bringing down hummingbirds. They are the Bengal tigers of the microworld.
Richard Preston
#55. When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.
Richard Preston
#56. Human beings are disgustingly predictable, and this is as true of psychopaths as it is of grandmothers.
Douglas Preston
#58. I was actually lost in Beirut on the way home.
Kelly Preston
#59. Just be true to yourself and don't do anything that doesn't feel right.
Matt Preston
#60. As a result of listening to Aberhart, my father decided to leave the farm in 1927 to study at Calgary Prophetic Bible Institute, Aberhart's training school.
Preston Manning
#61. Grace is unconditional acceptance given to an undeserving person by an unobligated giver. It is one-way love.
Preston Sprinkle
#62. Nothing disturbs me more than superficiality and mere sloganizing on matters of public policy, and the suspicion that what the speaker is saying represents the full extent of his knowledge on the subject.
Preston Manning
#63. Hey, Margo, this looks like a big job. Why don't you send out for pizza? The best place in town is Antonio's. I recommend the green chili and pepperoni. Shall I fax the order now?
Douglas Preston
#64. You take the constructive criticism, because without the fans you would have no show.
Reagan Gomez-Preston
#65. We no longer view the world through the dim mist of justice and reward, but through the bright lens of resurrection, where suffering leads to glory and slaughtered lambs rule the earth.
Preston Sprinkle
#66. Everyone says that getting over somebody 'just takes time' and that one day it will stop hurting and the door will open for you to move on. We are also told that love is eternal; something extraordinary that will stay with you forever... The contradiction is immense.
Natasha Preston
#67. There is a mountain range behind the town, called the Sierra de Sangre de Cristo. It means the 'Blood of Christ Mountains' in Spanish.
Douglas Preston
#68. There is no success in this world without first conquering the battle within your mind.
Preston Ely
#69. The fact that we have in our head coach, Lone Star Dietz, an Indian, together with several Indian players, has not, as may be suspected, inspired me to select the name Redskins.
George Preston Marshall
#70. My strongest quality as an actor is taking direction. I will give my performance as a template and if the director gives any instruction, I take that information, process it and morph it into the next take. I love the feeling I get when nailing a scene through direction.
James Preston Rogers
#71. Dr. Albert Frock: Well, how goes the gradual extinction of the human race, Lieutenant?
Lt. Vincent D'Agosta: I'm doing what I can to keep it orderly.
Douglas Preston
#72. I love being a scientologist, as it's helped me in every single aspect of my life.
Kelly Preston
#73. There is nothing to me but you. I know it's pathetic but, oh darling, it's true.
F.K. Preston
#74. The United States owes a great debt to its inventors. Far from being grateful to them, it places every obstruction in their way and makes it enormously difficult to secure a patent.
Preston Sturges
#75. After I saw a couple of pictures put out by my fellow comedy-directors, which seemed to have abandoned the fun in favor of the message, I wrote Sullivan's Travels to satisfy an urge to tell them that they were getting a little too deep-dish, to leave the preaching to the preachers.
Preston Sturges
#76. C'mon, honey, don't be mad at me. I don't mean to lie, I just remember big. Buck Preston to CeeCee's neighbor, Miz Goodpepper, in Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
Beth Hoffman
#77. The Bears are front-runners. Quitters. They are not a second-half team, just a bunch of cry-babies.
George Preston Marshall
#78. The redwoods you can see in Muir Woods are nothing like the redwood titans that stand in the rainforest valleys of the North Coast, closer to Oregon. These are the dreadnoughts of trees, the blue whales of the plant kingdom.
Richard Preston
#79. I could feel the heat rising in my cheeks. 'We spent one night together.'
'You had sex then?'
'No we crocheted a quilt.' I cocked my head to side and gave him my nastiest glare. Lorelei Preston to Agent Brody-The Wild Hunt
Ashley Jeffery
#80. We are all trying to balance our careers and children and give as much of ourselves and our time to them. You work and have a husband, and projects, and friends. It is a balancing act.
Kelly Preston
#81. There are hundreds of Canadian communities that have given more thought to hiring their rink manager than they have to electing their member of Parliament.
Preston Manning
#82. The world didn't end with a whimper or a bang. Your life finished in complete silence. Gone in a blink. And then there was nothing.
F.K. Preston
#83. We're all Hitler inside. We're all Christ inside. I'm not keen on the idea, but it's true, isn't it? We've all got a little bit of the devil in us.
Jason Jack Miller
#84. Directing is definitely something that is in my life for keeps, and the more I do it, the more I realize how much I want to learn and how much I have to give. And it kind of bolsters my acting - it enhances it in a really wonderful way that I wasn't expecting.
Carrie Preston
#85. I do think there's a spiritual element in the world, yes. Have I experienced a ghost firsthand, per se? No. I guess I've experienced feelings or some kind of a presence. But I certainly haven't seen any kind of transparent entity running around.
Carrie Preston
#87. You're either the one that creates the automation or you're getting automated.
Tom Preston-Werner
#88. I would like to end world hunger and create world peace, stop corruption, stop drugs getting to kids.
Kelly Preston
#89. I have a recurring role on 'Person of Interest,' which is my husband's show. I play the love of his life. It was really fun to do that.
Carrie Preston
#91. I like your custom 1911," the man said, glancing at Pendergast's weapon. "Les Baer Thunder Ranch Special? Nice-looking piece.
Douglas Preston
#93. Wine is like many of the fine experiences in life which take time and experience to extract their full pleasure and meaning.
Douglas Preston
#94. J. P. Morgan once said, If you want something too much, you will not succeed in getting it.
Douglas Preston
#95. The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually good for Ebola because they help Ebola change, and as a result of this, as it jumps from one human body to the next, roughly half the time, it's got a mutation.
Richard Preston
#96. A football player is often bigger than a basketball player - more massive, that is. The basketball player is taller and more slender. So it is with redwoods. The tallest redwoods are often slender, and so they aren't the largest ones.
Richard Preston
#97. in the end we're all still searching for a Kingdom that is not of this world, how we are so desperate to be known, to be called.
Preston Yancey
#98. How many years and how many pictures does it take to win the confidence of Paramount? How many years before my fellow workers say, 'I know he is doing his best?'
Preston Sturges
#99. When the initial effort of political and business leaders to influence public opinion on an issue is to threaten rather than to engage and persuade, they further arouse public opposition rather than win support.
Preston Manning
#100. I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow.
Richard Preston
