Wes Bentley Quotes

#1. It is your very essence, and it is immediately accessible to you as the feeling of your own presence, the realization I am that is prior to I am this or I am that.

Eckhart Tolle

#2. Sometimes, there's so much beauty in the world, I feel like I can't take it. Like my heart's going to cave in.

Wes Bentley

#3. Our civilization has evolved through the continuous adjustment of society to the stimulus of new knowledge.

John Boyd Orr

#4. To mourn is to wonder at the strangeness that grief is not written all over your face in bruised hieroglyphics. And it's also to feel, quite powerfully, that you're not allowed to descend into the deepest fathom of your grief - that to do so would be taboo somehow.

Meghan O'Rourke

#5. I've focused on making sure we have talented teachers and principals in our schools through proposals like the GREAT Teachers and Principals Act and the Presidential Teachers Corps.

Michael Bennet

#6. I wanted fame, but I thought it would be incremental, and I became afraid of the overnight-sensation thing.

Wes Bentley

#7. Will hated Christmas, for the obvious reason: people knocked on his door, singing the song he hated more than any song in the world and expected him to give them money.

Nick Hornby

#8. Marvin Miller, I suspect, is the most effective union organizer since John L. Lewis.

Studs Terkel

#9. History's best thinkers eventually concluded that our flaws were too powerful to trust with freedom. Thus we've been groomed as hamsters in a wheel that benefits a laughing few. No more great works will be accomplished under the regime, because beauty is not democratic or profitable.

D.B.C. Pierre

#10. It is easy now to communicate with people through abstraction, and particularly so in sculpture. Since the whole body reacts to its presence, people become themselves a living part of the whole.

Barbara Hepworth

#11. Politicians have often declared that unbridled competition among financial intermediaries promotes failures that will harm the public. Although the evidence that competition does this is extremely weak, it has not stopped the state and federal governments from imposing many restrictive regulations.

Frederic S. Mishkin

#12. Then my extended family, there are preachers and evangelists, former priests. So I have quite a bit of history with Church, religion and spirituality.

Wes Bentley

#13. Both my parents are Methodist preachers, I grew up in a church.

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#14. I grew up in the church and had religion in my life for a long time. I'm not really a church goer, but I definitely have a hunger for a spiritual connection to the world and for my soul to be healed.

Wes Bentley

#15. After 'Four Feathers,' I quit then because I just lost faith. I didn't like how the business was.

Wes Bentley

#16. A reflection of an exact image is the closest thing to you-so that you can see it-but it's far enough away so that you really understand it. There is real life in this movie, but it hovers just an inch above reality.

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#17. You treat characters like people you meet in life-friends or mentors.

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#18. Apparently the Republican base got radicalized first, and Democrats picked up the ball later. Or something.

Kevin Drum

#19. But as a kid, I loved 'Monty Python.' My Dad was a devout watcher. We used to watch it when we ate dinner!

Wes Bentley

#20. When a woman is fit and healthy, everything else falls into place. We are conditioned to put others first, that 'burnt chop syndrome' we observed in our mothers. It takes discipline to pay attention to our diets, to exercise, to leave time for refreshment of mind, body and spirit.

Quentin Bryce

#21. I like TV in the way that it moves quickly, I like the pace of TV because I'm that type of actor. I like to go-go-go. I don't have to do 50 million takes of something. I guess I'm not that patient. I really like the pace of it.

A. J. Cook

#22. I still consider myself a very spiritual person but the structure of the church isn't really for me.

Wes Bentley

#23. War is a matter of vital importance to the state; the province of life or death; the road to survival or ruin. It is mandatory that it be thoroughly studied.

Sun Tzu

#24. It is a cliche these days to observe that the United States now possesses a global empire - different from Britain's and Rome's but an empire nonetheless.

Robert D. Kaplan

#25. I didn't know anything about Opus Die except from pop culture, like Dan Brown novels, which I knew wasn't really knowing anything about Opus Die.

Wes Bentley