Quotes about "Faith & Spirituality"

I don't trust the people when they say, 'There's pressure when you're top.' I prefer the pressure of being top of the table. ”

If you trust in an idea of football, and you trust in the team, it's important to have a squad with good balance. ”

I like to call it a 'sacred fire' when you have it inside you: the will to win every game. ”

I am lucky, that is all. Lucky because there are a lot of people - producers, directors, people who buy tickets - who put confidence in me. ”

I spent my junior year in Switzerland. On the way back home, I spent some time in England, and I remember going to Hyde Park Corner. And there was a Roman Catholic priest in his collar, standing on a soapbox, preaching the Catholic faith and being heckled by a group. And I thought, 'My goodness.' I thought that was admirable. ”

In treating of the oak, I have considered that the species of it growing in warm climates is superior to that which is produced in cold countries. But we must not imagine this to be the case with all woods; on the contrary, the fir timber grown in cold countries is superior to that produced in warm ones, where its growth is rapid. ”

In our world, in which religious images are losing their meaning, in which our customs are getting more and more secular, we are losing our sense of the eternal. I think it's a loss that has done a great deal of damage to modern art. Painting is a return to origins. ”

There's not a lot of things that I'm confident about in life, but the way I feel about food is my one thing that I really feel such a strong connection to. ”

There's only a handful of people I trust completely, and I know who they are. Other than that, I pretty much don't trust people. ”

I have often heard the statement made by foreign singers, as a demonstrated fact, that the German artists are artists in feeling indeed, and serious in their devotion, but that their singing is crude. ”