Stiles Quotes

I long for a church that understands the dangers of entertainment and sees it for what is is: a lion crouching at the evangelical door, ready to devour us. We need a culture of evangelism that never sacrifices to the idolatry of entertainment, but serves up the rich fare found the gospel of Christ. ~ J. Mack Stiles

I worked on my book for about seven years and I had no idea it would be so timely when it was published. ~ T. J. Stiles

Never trust sheep. ~ Ryan Stiles

There is much room for humility when it comes to evangelism. We need to acknowledge that God is sovereign and can do as he wills to bring people to himself. There is no formula that dictates how God must work in evangelism. And though we may disagree with the evangelistic practices of individuals, ministries, or churches, we must also recognize that when people develop good-hearted commitments to evangelism, God can produce true fruit. I, for one, will take people practicing evangelism as best they can over those who forgo evangelism until they have the perfect practice. ~ J. Mack Stiles

You're my first love, and I never had the courage to tell you. My love for you is pure, ageless. I knew it the first time I saw you bob for apples at your ninth birthday party. I've known it all of our lives, and my love for you has grown as we've grown together, apart and back together again. ~ Trudy Stiles

hardships and trials do not come by accident, and God's purpose never ruins anything that wasn't supposed to be ruined. ~ Steven Stiles

Each full, deep inhale creates more space in your body and mind. Each long, exhale moves you directly into that space. The deeper you breathe, the more opens up. It's like opening a door and walking through with each breath. The fuller your breaths the more and more doors open on up, leaving you with the space to walk on in! ~ Tara Stiles

I think audiences, producers and directors included, develop crushes on actors (actresses in particular) and then lose interest and move on to the next one. ~ Julia Stiles

Emphasizing the body as art, these artists amplified the role of process over product and shifted from representation objects to presentational modes of action. ~ Kristine Stiles

One reason many people never see God working in their lives is because they never hang in long enough for God to show his power. ~ Wayne Stiles

The speed of transportation largely determined the speed of information. ~ T. J. Stiles

On 'Whose Line,' we had six, seven, eight scenes per show, so everything was pretty quick. And there's a lot of games that we just got tired of, like 'Hats' and 'World's Worst' and 'Hoedown' and stuff. ~ Ryan Stiles

I'm convinced to do improv. All you have to do is listen to what people are saying to you, and then just add more information to what they've just said. That's all there is to improv, but it's the hardest thing to do. ~ Ryan Stiles

When we practice paying attention, moving with ease of body and mind, and being efficient, our body becomes very capable and strong, and the mind is able to be calm and travel further inward, where we have direct access to your unique creativity, intuition, and feelings of connectivity. ~ Tara Stiles

Stiles doesn't even know how short of a leash he's on, because he never even tests it. ~ 1001cranes

They now endure incessant cultural appropriation by a majority society in the United States that celebrates an idealized American Indian but ignores reservation life - the economic blight and marginalization of what are, in effect, national internment zones, exacerbated by federal inattention and mismanagement. In Indian country there are also thriving cultural traditions and creative genius, but these often receive little more recognition than the problems. - ~ T. J. Stiles

He may have confused honor with with with ruthlessness. ~ T. J. Stiles

Fundamentally women and men are different. ~ Julia Stiles

Back off or the lizard gets it! ~ Ryan Stiles

These conversations went on and on with person after person. I stood literally amazed by the grace of God, not just upon one Christian passionate about sharing the gospel, but upon an entire community passionate about sharing the gospel. As I looked around, I observed a contagious culture of evangelism across the church. It is a culture of evangelism that is not ultimately dependent on events, projects, programs, and ministry professionals. Instead, it is a culture of evangelism that is built on people filled with the power of God's Spirit proclaiming the gospel of God's grace in the context of their everyday lives and relationships. ~ J. Mack Stiles

That is raw dough. Never eat raw dough. They can make worms in your tummy. Worms in your tummy. ~ Ryan Stiles

I never think of myself as an actor who takes work home with them. ~ Julia Stiles

Sometimes when our faith is too weak to trust God, He puts us in a place where our weakness forces us to surrender. Not to trust, but to surrender. Surrender then lays the groundwork for trust, because God always shows Himself faithful. ~ Wayne Stiles

I kind of don't believe in actors directing themselves. Obviously some people have done it well, but I don't see how I could. It's funny that you ask, because I've just been thinking that maybe I'd rather direct The Bell Jar than act in it. It's a huge leap to go from a short to a feature, so I'm tentative - I'm like, Well, that's just so triple-type-A personality of you. ~ Julia Stiles

I look like Walt Disney just threw up. ~ Ryan Stiles

The first rule to living in America is 'Stop tap dancing, you fool!'. ~ Ryan Stiles

If I were as much of a man as my woman, I'd be my wife. ~ Ryan Stiles

I am forever grateful that I got some training in the theater - it reduces performance anxiety. ~ Julia Stiles

A few scattered accounts, collected and combined together, may lead us to two certain conclusions: 1. That all the American Indians are one kind of people; 2. That they are the same as the people in the northeast of Asia. ~ Ezra Stiles

When we are at ease, our bodies work efficiently, our minds settle, and space opens up for us to connect to our intuition, creativity, and sense of connectedness. ~ Tara Stiles

I took the role of Ophelia in Hamlet because she is so naive, loving, and innocent. ~ Julia Stiles

It's not my job to critique the writing. I'm there to serve it. I had to figure out a way to make it work. ~ Julia Stiles

I think I was born an artist. But the key is that I have a mom that encouraged and supported my artistic side. She still has the stick-figure drawings framed. ~ Julia Stiles

Of course my family and friends are incredibly valuable to me. They keep me sane, they teach me things and I love spending time with them. I think that ranking what you value is a sort of western and linear way of looking at things. ~ Julia Stiles

Indians are numerous in the tropical regions; not so elsewhere. ~ Ezra Stiles

After watching too many scary movies it was hard not to have an overactive imagination, along with an inherent distrust of seemingly benevolent (and sometimes inanimate) things, like lawn gnomes. ~ Kat Stiles

Two thongs don't make a right. ~ Ryan Stiles

The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right. ~ Ezra Stiles

What do I do when we're not taping? Sit in a dark room and refine my plans for someday ruling Earth from a blimp. And chess. ~ Ryan Stiles

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions ... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now. ~ Ryan Stiles

Under standing orders from General Lee, the Army of Northern Virginia enslaved any and all black persons it could seize - in Virginia, Maryland, even Pennsylvania during the Gettysburg Campaign. It made no distinctions between those who had escaped during the war, those born free, or those freed before the war under the laws of Southern states. If they were black, the men in gray took them as property. ~ T. J. Stiles

If I could rap, that would be a sensation, but I can't, you see, I'm just a Caucasian. ~ Ryan Stiles

I just miss it. Reading. I miss reading." Stiles' face is turned in the other direction now. Away from Derek. Derek, who has never contemplated that reading isn't a given for everyone in this country. Up until now, he has assumed that some people love to read and those who don't like it deserve longer jail sentences if they ever commit a crime. ~ Vendelin

We must remember in our struggles that our duty lies outside of trying to understand God's plan. He never asks that of us. Instead, He wants to see our trust in Him, through simple daily obedience, even in a land of affliction and confusion. ~ Wayne Stiles

It should seem, then, that the nature of society dictates another, a higher branch, whose superiority arises from its being the interested and natural conservator of the universal interest. ~ Ezra Stiles

Thanks in large part to reduced transportation costs, San Francisco matured from a dust-blown, mud-lined tent camp with gambling saloons into a brick-walled, warehouse-filled commercial center with gambling saloons. ~ T. J. Stiles

The constitutions of Maryland and New York are founded in higher wisdom. ~ Ezra Stiles

I'm not good at keeping secrets. If I'm entrusted with a secret from a friend, I can do that because I'm a good friend, but I don't like having secrets, it makes me nervous. ~ Julia Stiles

I think women get caught up too much in having a plan - 'I'm going to get married at this age; I'm going to have a kid at this age' - and then they just try to find a guy who will fit into that picture. I don't want my life to be based on that. ~ Julia Stiles

The practice of being at ease also gives you the strength and stamina to pursue all that you find when you connect inward. ~ Tara Stiles

To Die is not as bad as not having lived ~ W.B. Stiles

Derek turned to face Stiles, his expression falling into a very familiar stare of utter disgruntled bitchiness. "Would you like more water?"

Stiles squinted, resisting the urge to mutter, ' not sure if angry, or just emotionally constipated,' under his breath. Instead, he pursed his lips and attempted to lay on the old Stilinski charm by blurting out, "I could do with something a little... harder."

It was almost disturbing how Derek was able to stare back at Stiles without blinking once. "I have beer," he said slowly, cautiously.

Stiles narrowed his eyes, echoing the tone of Derek's voice, "...harder."

".... pudding?" Derek ventured, as if pudding was actually a viable option when Stiles was demanding something harder than beer. ~ Tylerfucklin

The only thing that gets me through any type of pain, emotional or physical, is to make it worthwhile by putting it into my work. ~ Julia Stiles

War, in some instances, especially defensive, has been authorized by Heaven. ~ Ezra Stiles

Drew's a funny guy. Because anything he gets into, he gets in 100%. Even when we were doing 'The Drew Carey Show,' he got into bowling, and suddenly he's phoning up pros for tips and carrying around 3 balls. It's just how he does it. ~ Ryan Stiles

I did standup for a lot of years, too, but when you come out as a standup, you get the feeling from a crowd - it's a kind of a 'make me laugh' attitude. But when you come out as an improvisor, they realize that they're suggesting everything you do. So they're already invested in the scene, and they actually want it to work. ~ Ryan Stiles

Light, so low upon earth,
You send a flash to the sun.
Here is the golden close of love,
All my wooing is done.
Oh, all the woods and the meadows,
Woods, where we hid from the wet,
Stiles where we stayed to be kind,
Meadows in which we met!
Light, so low in the vale
You flash and lighten afar,
For this is the golden morning of love,
And you are his morning star.
Flash, I am coming, I come,
By meadow and stile and wood,
Oh, lighten into my eyes and my heart,
Into my heart and my blood!
Heart, are you great enough
For a love that never tires?
O heart, are you great enough for love?
I have heard of thorns and briers.
Over the thorns and briers,
Over the meadows and stiles,
Over the world to the end of it
Flash of a million miles. ~ Alfred Tennyson

Go after what gives you goosebumps. ~ Tara Stiles

You desire to know something of my Religion. It is the first time I have been questioned upon it: But I do not take your Curiosity amiss, and shall endeavour in a few Words to gratify it ... I have, with most of the present Dissenters in England, some Doubts as to his [Jesus'] divinity; tho' it is a question I do not dogmatize upon, having never studied it, and I think it needless to busy myself with it now, when I expect soon an Opportunity of knowing the Truth with less Trouble.
[Letter to Ezra Stiles, March 9, 1790] ~ Benjamin Franklin

Gold! I knew it! Just think of it, Queen. Six bags of gold!" trilled the King.
"What will you do with them, King dear?" asked the Queen.
"I won't do anything with them. I'll just have them and be rich. ~ Ruth Stiles Gannett

With meditation, you become a sensitized superhero, completely in control, with endless possibilities at your fingertips. ~ Tara Stiles

The British merchants represented that they received some profit indeed from Virginia and South Carolina, as well as the West Indies; but as for the rest of this continent, they were constant losers in trade. ~ Ezra Stiles

Let the grand errand into America never be forgotten. ~ Ezra Stiles

I used to want to be fully observational, but I'm just not that kind of writer. My process always changes depending on how, when, and where inspiration stiles me. ~ Brett Dennen

Many books belong to sunshine, and should be read out of doors. Clover, violets, and hedge roses breathe from their leaves; they are most lovable in cool lanes, along field paths, or upon stiles overhung by hawthorn, while the blackbird pipes, and the nightingale bathes its brown feathers in the twilight copse. ~ Robert Aris Willmott

We're expecting a lot of rain in the state of Oregon, so let's just get rid of Oregon. ~ Ryan Stiles

We stand a better chance with aristocracy, whether hereditary or elective, than with monarchy. ~ Ezra Stiles

Make yourself useful, not just on a day to day basis, but as a lifetime thing. ~ Julia Stiles

Theater makes working in movies or TV seem like a cake-walk. ~ Julia Stiles

The sky, the sky beyond the door is blue. ~ Ryan Stiles

What we call men, are the subjects, the individual Stiles and Nokes; not the qualities by which their humanity is constituted. The name, therefore, is said to signify the subjects directly , the attributes indirectly ; it denotes the subjects, and implies, or involves, or indicates, or as we shall say henceforth connotes, the attributes. It is a connotative name. ~ John Stuart Mill

Defining evangelism in a biblical way helps us align our evangelistic practice with the Scriptures. Here's a definition that has served me well for many years: Evangelism is teaching the gospel with the aim to persuade. ~ J. Mack Stiles

Do either of you even play baseball? ~ Jeff Davis

I really like Shakespeare a lot. The characters that he writes for females, I think, are really great and a lot more compelling than what modern writers write, which is weird because they didn't have actresses then. ~ Julia Stiles

You know, I've got a confession to make myself. I'm not really a priest, I've just got my shirt on backwards. ~ Ryan Stiles

So how do we know if we've assumed the gospel? Mack Stiles days so aptly that the way to know if we've assumed the gospel is this: you don't hear it anymore. Everyone talks to themselves. ~ Gloria Furman

I'm really into the Tom Ford lipsticks. I was always afraid to wear lip color because I thought it made me look too masculine, but my makeup artist Fiona Stiles got me into wearing coral, orange-y colors from his line, and now I wear lipstick all of the time. ~ Nikki Reed

Believing in yourself is essential to creating lasting change and a happy life. ~ Tara Stiles

There are reasons for believing that the English increase will far surpass others, and that the diffusion of the United States will ultimately produce the general population of America. ~ Ezra Stiles

Our greatest need from God isn't for Him to change our circumstances but for Him to use our circumstances to change us. ~ Wayne Stiles

I tend to gravitate toward the more powerful roles. As opposed to the doe-eyed girl who bats her eyelashes and runs around in towels, you now what I mean? Because that kind of makes me want to vomit. ~ Julia Stiles

Confrontation was the stuff of daily life. ~ T. J. Stiles

You can tell a lot about yourself by how you go about things. ~ Tara Stiles

The good news is your surgery was a success and now you look like a movie star! The bad news is that movie star is Drew Carey! ~ Ryan Stiles

The Lord was with Joseph, and Joseph remained forgotten for two years. Both were equally true. ~ Wayne Stiles

A thin line separates destiny from coincidence. ~ T. J. Stiles

I worked regularly from very early on, and some of it was probably a bit premature. ~ Julia Stiles

I love B.C., but you know what taxes are like in Canada. ~ Ryan Stiles

We want God to change situations. God wants to change us in them. ~ Wayne Stiles

But after the spirit of conquest had changed the first governments, all the succeeding ones have, in general, proved one continued series of injustice, which has reigned in all countries for almost four thousand years. ~ Ezra Stiles

Our brief, little life here on Earth represents the only time in all of eternity when we can glorify God in the midst of struggle. ~ Wayne Stiles

I'd rather drive the yellow brick road, you wouldn't happen to know of a rental car place around. ~ Ryan Stiles

It's actually really great to be a student and an actor, because I get to do this job that I love, then just when I think my head might explode, I get to go to school where they don't really care about what magazine cover I'm on. ~ Julia Stiles

Melissa McCall: I have to ground you. I am grounding you. You are grounded.
Scott McCall: What about work?
Melissa McCall: Fine. Other than work. And no TV.
Scott McCall: My TV's broken.
Melissa McCall: Then no computer.
Scott McCall: I need the computer for school.
Melissa McCall: Then no... uh...
[Glances at Stiles]
Melissa McCall: No Stiles.
Stiles: What? No Stiles?
Melissa McCall: NO STILES! ~ Stiles Stilinski Jeff Davis

Yoga has stopped me from destroying my joints after running. It slows me down. My brain and body can go into overdrive - yoga teaches me to focus on the moment and not get ahead of myself. ~ Julia Stiles

It gives me pleasure to find that public liberty is effectually secured in each and all the policies of the United States, though somewhat differently modeled. ~ Ezra Stiles

I'm going to Columbia University but I'm trying to keep that low-profile because I don't want weird people following me there. I want the experience of normal college life. ~ Julia Stiles

The United States are under peculiar obligations to become a holy people unto the Lord our God. ~ Ezra Stiles

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe. ~ Ryan Stiles

How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile. ~ Rose Macaulay