H. S. Leigh Quotes

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

Are you building up your house, or are you tearing it down? Your 'house' is the sphere of relationships that God has placed you in.

When I was young I used to sit in the cinema thinking wouldn't it be great if you could have a film in which the characters were like real people instead of being like actors.

I will not be ignored.

We will never meet God in revival until we have first met Him in brokenness.

God's Will is what we would choose if we knew what God knows.

You know how to be a good boy?" Anna widened her eyes in surprise. "Why, Archer, I'm certain I never recognized that quality in you.

When moral courage feels that it is in the right, there is no personal daring of which it is incapable.

The word hospitality in the New Testament comes from two Greek words. The first word means love and the second word means strangers. Its a word that means love of strangers.

Don't wish for bricks when you can build from stone.

I try and create for the audience something that relates to real-life experience.

I don't need a reason to kill myself-I need a reason not to.

My money's on the lady," he drawled. "You don't tame a vixen, you just travel in her wake.

... we are the products of our past. ... a web of complexities.

Occupation is the necessary basis of all enjoyment.

I'm not young. What's wrong with that?

Na razrusha'ya. I am not ruined. E'ya razrushost. I am ruination.

My parents were French and Irish and our family even has Spanish blood-and I do so love the United States and consider myself part American.

If you don't parent, then don't cry about who your kid is becoming.

To receive a present handsomely and in a right spirit, even when you have none to give in return, is to give one in return.

If you become a Nun, dear, The bishop Love will be; The Cupids every one, dear! Will chant-'We trust in thee!'

If there's not someone in your social circle who doesn't look like you, then shame on you.

Brokenness is the STRIPPING OF SELF-RELIANCE AND INDEPENDENCE FROM GOD...but he is cast in total dependence upon the grace of God working in and through him.

Mark it down—your progress in holiness will never exceed your relationship with the holy Word of God.

Yuyeh sesh. Despise your heart. Ni weh sesh. I have no heart.

Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

I don't know what that Method is. Acting is life, to me, and should be.

Thank God there aren't 1.6 billion Trumps.

The same people who can deny others everything are famous for refusing themselves nothing.

They're not dogs [poodles], they're art.

I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to care about. In that sense, I would regard what I do as political.

Every single night I'm nervous. You never know how the audience is going to react.

If you need somebody to dig up rocks eight hours a day underwater, call me.

You can't act on an empty stomach, because you're breathing's all wrong.

Because it is there [famous explanation for wanting to climb Mount Everest].

I never found accents difficult, after learning languages.

The more we hold on to our hurts, anger and bitterness, the more we become slaves to unforgiveness.

When you stop knowing your kids' business and who they're hanging out with, you have stopped parenting.

It is important to find worth in yourself.

The Christian life is not about all the things we do for God--it's about being loved by Him, loving Him in return, and walking in intimate union and communion with Him.

God lives in the place of praise. If we want to be where He is, we need to go to His address.

If you are ever at a loss to support a flagging conversation, introduce the subject of eating.

To do any less than to make Him known is to fail to really love our neighbors.

Why climb Mount Everest? Because it's there.

I think I'm a million different faces

There may be some issue where God is calling you to surrender. I don’t know what you may be struggling with, but whatever it is, let me just encourage you: Don’t delay obedience.

Jesus died as He had lived-praying, forgiving, loving, sacrificing, trusting, quoting Scripture. If I die as I have lived, how will I die?

No matter what I have done, no matter how I have failed, no matter how week I have been, no matter how inadequate I am, God has not changed. He has not failed.

My work is about life as you and I experience it. You're either lucky or you're not lucky; either your relationship works or it doesn't.

Hey, our Founding Fathers wore long hair and powdered wigs - I don't see anybody trying to look like them today, either... But we do look to them as role models.