Lawrence Dale Bell famous quotes

Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I'll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
-- Lawrence Dale Bell

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When we give children advice or instant solutions, we deprive them of the experience that comes from wrestling with their own problems.

Concentrate all your thoughts upon the work at hand. The sun's rays do not burn until brought to a focus.

To be present - really, truly present - in art and life requires empathizing with uncertainty and wrestling with risk.

All my life I've been aware of the Second World War humming in the background. I was born 10 years after it was finished, and without ever seeing it. It formed my generation and the world we lived in. I played Hurricanes and Spitfires in the playground, and war films still form the basis of all my moral philosophy. All the men I've ever got to my feet for or called sir had been in the war.

This is our high calling, to represent Christ, and act in His behalf, and in His character and spirit, under all circumstances and toward all men.

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same position with creeping.

When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory.

You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.

Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

It used to be that you kind of got pigeonholed into one thing - you're either a stage actor or a TV actor or a movie actor. Today, there's a lot of crossover with film actors doing television, which never happened before, so those lines are a little bit more blurred than they used to be.