H. S. Leigh Quotes

It's much easier to make people cry than to laugh.

We don't live to eat and make money. We eat and make money to be able to enjoy life. That is what life means, and that is what life is for.

I want to see a revolution of kindness, because what happens is, when you're kind and you give, it's infectious. You give one time, and it's a great feeling and you want to do it again and again.

Music is the medicine of the breaking heart.

We all experienced people putting us down and people saying we couldn't do it. We overcame it.

There are amazing people in this world that just need an opportunity.

Those who say in simple surrender 'Yes, Lord,' emerge from the experience spiritually rich, and become a source of grace and encouragement to others who are hurting.

English people don't have very good diction. In France you have to pronounce very particularly and clearly, and learning French at an early age helped me enormously.

One must conquer, achieve, get to the top; one must know the end to be convinced that one can win the end - to know there's no dream that mustn't be dared. . .

Things are simple when you're going to die.

Proud people keep others at arm's length. Broken people are willing to take the risks of getting close to others and loving intimately.

Comedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training, I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.

Instead of fixing all your problems, God may be wanting to use your problems to teach you to trust and obey Him.

Every time you and I bow our heads in surrender to the will of God, we embrace the cross and we manifest to the world the heart of Christ who bowed His head to the will of His Father.

I'll admit I never wanted to be in a band. Then, in X-Factor, they put me in this group and it's the best thing that ever happened to me.

God can be trusted. He keeps His promises. He doesn't make any mistakes.

Poetry is the breath of beauty.

Happy opinions are the wine of the heart.

For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.

Obedience is the pathway to blessing. It’s the means of protection. It’s the means of joy. It’s the means to finding God’s best in our lives.

Your second-hand bookseller is second to none in the worth of the treasures he dispenses.

One comes to bless the absolute bareness, feeling that here is a pure beauty of form, a kind of ultimate harmony.

There are two worlds: The world that we can measure with line and rule, and the world we feel with our hearts and imaginations.

Stolen sweets are always sweeter, Stolen kisses much completer, Stolen looks are nice in chapels, Stolen, stolen be your apples.

To struggle and to understand. Never the last without the first. That is the law.

We will stomp to the top with the wind in our teeth.

I think any classical training in the theatre is of enormous value.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

Never underestimate the capacity of another human being to have exactly the same shortcomings you have.

People think that if you look fairly reasonable, you can't possibly act, and as I only care about acting, I think beauty can be a great handicap.

The highest of the world's mountains, it seems, has to make but a single gesture of magnificence to be the lord of all, vast in unchallenged and isolated supremacy.

Classical plays require more imagination and more general training to be able to do. That's why I like playing Shakespeare better than anything else.

Dear Lord, I'm so grateful I'm still loved.

Whatever evil befalls us, we ought to ask ourselves... how we can turn it into good. So shall we take occasion, from one bitter root, to raise perhaps many flowers.

I need something truly beautiful to look at in hotel rooms.

The only thing certain about any negotiation is that it will lead to another negotiation .

Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche.

Goodbyes are sad, no matter what the promise of tomorrow is.

In order to dream, you need to have a springboard which is the facts... It gives it that touch of reality, and I think that's quite important... truth with fiction.

Gratitude has a big job to do in us and our hearts. It is one of the chief ways that God infuses joy and resilience into the daily struggle of life.

In this world we live in, racism is alive and well in all venues. We immediately categorize people, and that's just not right.

I have no interest whatsoever in being a high-fashion model, nor is it possible

Thinking of what Jesus did NOT say from the cross: not a bitter, angry, unkind, whining, profane, unnecessary word. There is none like Him!

I cannot let well enough alone. I get restless. I have to be doing different things.

Witchcraft to the ignorant, .... Simple science to the learned.

I don't know what it is I exude. But whatever it is, it's whatever I am!

Why do we travel to remote locations? To prove our adventurous spirit or to tell stories about incredible things? We do it to be alone amongst friends and to find ourselves in a land without man.

Half the charm of climbing mountains is born in visions preceding this experience - visions of what is mysterious, remote, inaccessible.

A lucky thing Eva Peron was. She died at 32. I'm already 45.

Where the mouth is sweet and the eyes intelligent, there is always the look of beauty, with a right heart.