Famous Quotes By Thomas Sowell

 

1. As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.
2. Brainy folks were also present in Lyndon Johnson's administration, especially in the Pentagon, where Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara's brilliant 'whiz kids' tried to micro-manage the Vietnam war, with disastrous results.
3. Freedom has cost too much blood and agony to be relinquished at the cheap price of rhetoric.
4. If people in the media cannot decide whether they are in the business of reporting news or manufacturing propaganda, it is all the more important that the public understand that difference, and choose their news sources accordingly.
5. If you have always believed that everyone should play by the same rules and be judged by the same standards, that would have gotten you labeled a radical 60 years ago, a liberal 30 years ago and a racist today.
6. In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.
7. It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.
8. It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance.
9. Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.
10. Much of the social history of the Western world, over the past three decades, has been a history of replacing what worked with what sounded good.
11. Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
12. One of the common failings among honorable people is a failure to appreciate how thoroughly dishonorable some other people can be, and how dangerous it is to trust them.
13. One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
14. People who enjoy meetings should not be in charge of anything.
15. People who have time on their hands will inevitably waste the time of people who have work to do.
16. People who identify themselves as conservatives donate money to charity more often than people who identify themselves as liberals. They donate more money and a higher percentage of their incomes.
17. Prices are important not because money is considered paramount but because prices are a fast and effective conveyor of information through a vast society in which fragmented knowledge must be coordinated.
18. Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.
19. The big divide in this country is not between Democrats and Republicans, or women and men, but between talkers and doers.
20. The first lesson of economics is scarcity: there is never enough of anything to fully satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics.
21. The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
22. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology accepts blacks in the top ten percent of students, but at MIT this puts them in the bottom ten percent of the class.
23. The most basic question is not what is best, but who shall decide what is best.
24. The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.
25. The next time some academics tell you how important diversity is, ask how many Republicans there are in their sociology department.
26. The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.
27. There are only two ways of telling the complete truth - anonymously and posthumously.
28. Too much of what is called 'education' is little more than an expensive isolation from reality.
29. What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.
30. Wishful thinking is not idealism. It is self-indulgence at best and self-exaltation at worst. In either case, it is usually at the expense of others. In other words, it is the opposite of idealism.

Famous Quotes By Thomas Merton

 

1. A life is either all spiritual or not spiritual at all. No man can serve two masters. Your life is shaped by the end you live for. You are made in the image of what you desire.
2. Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
3. Be good, keep your feet dry, your eyes open, your heart at peace and your soul in the joy of Christ.
4. Death is someone you see very clearly with eyes in the center of your heart: eyes that see not by reacting to light, but by reacting to a kind of a chill from within the marrow of your own life.
5. Every moment and every event of every man's life on earth plants something in his soul.
6. Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.
7. If you want to study the social and political history of modern nations, study hell.
8. In the last analysis, the individual person is responsible for living his own life and for 'finding himself.' If he persists in shifting his responsibility to somebody else, he fails to find out the meaning of his own existence.
9. Just remaining quietly in the presence of God, listening to Him, being attentive to Him, requires a lot of courage and know-how.
10. Love is our true destiny. We do not find the meaning of life by ourselves alone - we find it with another.
11. Love seeks one thing only: the good of the one loved. It leaves all the other secondary effects to take care of themselves. Love, therefore, is its own reward.
12. October is a fine and dangerous season in America. a wonderful time to begin anything at all. You go to college, and every course in the catalogue looks wonderful.
13. Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.
14. Perhaps I am stronger than I think.
15. Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.
16. The beginning of love is to let those we love be perfectly themselves, and not to twist them to fit our own image. Otherwise we love only the reflection of ourselves we find in them.
17. The first step toward finding God, Who is Truth, is to discover the truth about myself: and if I have been in error, this first step to truth is the discovery of my error.
18. The least of the work of learning is done in the classroom.
19. The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.
20. We are not at peace with others because we are not at peace with ourselves, and we are not at peace with ourselves because we are not at peace with God.
21. We are so obsessed with doing that we have no time and no imagination left for being. As a result, men are valued not for what they are but for what they do or what they have - for their usefulness.
22. We have what we seek, it is there all the time, and if we give it time, it will make itself known to us.
23. When ambition ends, happiness begins.

Famous Quotes By Stanislav Grof

 

1. A number of cases have been reported in which a dying individual has a vision of a person about whose death he or she did not know.
2. A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.
3. A text of Tibetan Buddhism describes the time of death as a unique opportunity for spiritual liberation from the cycles of death and rebirth and a period that determines our next incarnation.
4. According to materialistic science, any memory requires a material substrate, such as the neuronal network in the brain or the DNA molecules of the genes.
5. An important consequence of freeing oneself from the fear of death is a radical opening to spirituality of a universal and non-denominational type.
6. At a time when unbridled greed, malignant aggression, and existence of weapons of mass destruction threatens the survival of humanity, we should seriously consider any avenue that offers some hope.
7. Coming to terms with the fear of death is conducive to healing, positive personality transformation, and consciousness evolution.
8. Consciousness after death demonstrates the possibility of consciousness operating independently of the body.
9. Dying before dying has two important consequences: It liberates the individual from the fear of death and influences the actual experience of dying at the time of biological demise.
10. For any culture which is primarily concerned with meaning, the study of death - the only certainty that life holds for us - must be central, for an understanding of death is the key to liberation in life.
11. I believe it is essential for our planetary future to develop tools that can change the consciousness which has created the crisis that we are in.
12. I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.
13. I read Freud's Introductory Lectures in Psychoanalysis in basically one sitting. I decided to enroll in medical school. It was almost like a conversion experience.
14. I spent much of my later childhood and adolescence very, very involved and interested in art, and particularly in animated movies.
15. If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.
16. In the kind of world we have today, transformation of humanity might well be our only real hope for survival.
17. Research challenges the materialistic understanding of death, according to which biological death represents the final end of existence and of all conscious activity.
18. The beliefs concerning reincarnation have great ethical impact on human life and our relationship to the world.
19. The elimination of the fear of death transforms the individual's way of being in the world.
20. The experiences associated with death were seen as visits to important dimensions of reality that deserved to be experienced, studied, and carefully mapped.
21. The knowledge of the realm of death makes it possible for the shaman to move freely back and forth and mediate these journeys for other people.
22. The materialistic paradigm of Western science has been a major obstacle for any objective evaluation of the data describing the events occurring at the time of death.
23. The motif of death plays an important role the human psyche in connection with archetypal and karmic material.
24. The study of consciousness that can extend beyond the body is extremely important for the issue of survival, since it is this part of human personality that would be likely to survive death.
25. There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
26. There is no fundamental difference between the preparation for death and the practice of dying, and spiritual practice leading to enlightenment.
27. Traditional academic science describes human beings as highly developed animals and biological thinking machines. We appear to be Newtonian objects made of atoms, molecules, cells, tissues, and organs.
28. Unlike scientism, science in the true sense of the word is open to unbiased investigation of any existing phenomena.
29. Whether or not we believe in survival of consciousness after death, reincarnation, and karma, it has very serious implications for our behavior.

Famous Quotes By Shimon Peres

 

1. He was the editor of our paper. He created the publishing house in Hebrew. He was - I wouldn't say the 'guru' - but really he was our teacher and a most respected man. I wrote for the paper of the youth movement.
2. I think I was a good student, because I jumped over a school. My main interest was basically history and literature. Sports were basically basketball and swimming at a pool. I was so happy.
3. I think peace should be done not only among governments but among people. It was impossible before the Facebook.
4. I was learning, as I did in the Ministry of Defense. I never knew, but I always learned.
5. I worked with a group of people who argued day and night - professors, officials, the Minister of Finance - but there were decisions that I had to make.
6. My heart goes out to the brave citizens of Syria, who each day risk and even sacrifice their lives to achieve freedom from a murderous regime. We in Israel welcome the historic struggle to forge democratic, peace-loving governments in our region.
7. Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.
8. Peace with the Palestinians will open ports of peace all around the Mediterranean. The duty of leaders is to pursue freedom ceaselessly, even in the face of hostility, in the face of doubt and disappointment. Just imagine what could be.
9. The Jews' greatest contribution to history is dissatisfaction! We're a nation born to be discontented. Whatever exists we believe can be changed for the better.
10. The Middle East is ailing. The malady stems from pervasive violence, shortages of food, water and educational opportunities, discrimination against women and - the most virulent cause of all - the absence of freedom.
11. The older generation had greater respect for land than science. But we live in an age when science, more than soil, has become the provider of growth and abundance. Living just on the land creates loneliness in an age of globality.
12. The problem of the Middle East is poverty more than politics.
13. The United States is the only power in history that became great by giving and not by taking. I think the crisis was when the United States had more money than ideas. Money doesn't produce money. Ideas produce money.
14. What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?
15. When I am speaking about American presidents, I have to speak about my very special relations with President Clinton. He contributed more to peace than anybody else in the American sense.
16. You know who is against democracy in the Middle East? The husbands. They got used to their way of life. Now, the traditional way of life must change. Everybody must change. If you don't give equal rights to women, you can't progress.

Famous Quotes By Euripides

 

1. Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom.
2. Cleverness is not wisdom.
3. Down on your knees, and thank heaven, fasting, for a good man's love.
4. Events will take their course, it is no good of being angry at them he is happiest who wisely turns them to the best account.
5. Forgive, son men are men they needs must err.
6. Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.
7. God hates violence. He has ordained that all men fairly possess their property, not seize it.
8. Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.
9. He is not a lover who does not love forever.
10. He was a wise man who originated the idea of God.
11. It's not beauty but fine qualities, my girl, that keep a husband.
12. Life has no blessing like a prudent friend.
13. Love is all we have, the only way that each can help the other.
14. No one can confidently say that he will still be living tomorrow.
15. Nothing has more strength than dire necessity.
16. One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.
17. Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.
18. Silence is true wisdom's best reply.
19. Some wisdom you must learn from one who's wise.
20. Ten soldiers wisely led will beat a hundred without a head.
21. The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.
22. The best of seers is he who guesses well.
23. The greatest pleasure of life is love.
24. There is just one life for each of us: our own.
25. Those whom God wishes to destroy, he first makes mad.
26. To a father growing old nothing is dearer than a daughter.
27. To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.
28. Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.
29. Youth is the best time to be rich, and the best time to be poor.

Famous Quotes By Jimi Hendrix

 

1. I got a pet monkey called Charlie Chan.
2. I try to use my music to move these people to act.
3. I was trying to do too many things at the same time, which is my nature. But I was enjoying it, and I still do enjoy it.
4. I wish they'd had electric guitars in cotton fields back in the good old days. A whole lot of things would've been straightened out.
5. I'm the one that has to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life, the way I want to.
6. Imagination is the key to my lyrics. The rest is painted with a little science fiction.
7. In order to change the world, you have to get your head together first.
8. It's funny how most people love the dead, once you're dead your made for life.
9. It's funny the way most people love the dead. Once you are dead, you are made for life.
10. Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.
11. Music doesn't lie. If there is something to be changed in this world, then it can only happen through music.
12. Music is a safe kind of high.
13. Music is my religion.
14. Music makes me high on stage, and that's the truth. It's like being almost addicted to music.
15. My goal is to be one with the music. I just dedicate my whole life to this art.
16. My nature just changes.
17. The reflection of the world is blues, that's where that part of the music is at. Then you got this other kind of music that's tryin' to come around.
18. The story of life is quicker then the blink of an eye, the story of love is hello, goodbye.
19. The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.
20. We have time, there's no big rush.
21. When I die, I want people to play my music, go wild and freak out and do anything they want to do.
22. When I played God Bless The Queen, I was wondering if they was gonna dig us, then quite naturally I'd go on and try to get it together.
23. When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace.
24. You don't have to be singing about love all the time in order to give love to the people. You don't have to keep flashing those words all the time.

Famous Quotes By Adlai E. Stevenson

 

1. A beauty is a woman you notice a charmer is one who notices you.
2. After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquility of a political convention.
3. An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics.
4. Change is inevitable. Change for the better is a full-time job.
5. Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity - in short, of tyranny - and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
6. Do you know the difference between a beautiful woman and a charming one? A beauty is a woman you notice, a charmer is one who notices you.
7. Every age needs men who will redeem the time by living with a vision of the things that are to be.
8. Freedom rings where opinions clash.
9. I believe in the forgiveness of sin and the redemption of ignorance.
10. I believe that if we really want human brotherhood to spread and increase until it makes life safe and sane, we must also be certain that there is no one true faith or path by which it may spread.
11. I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
12. If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
13. I'm not an old, experienced hand at politics. But I am now seasoned enough to have learned that the hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
14. It's hard to lead a cavalry charge if you think you look funny on a horse.
15. Journalists do not live by words alone, although sometimes they have to eat them.
16. Law is not a profession at all, but rather a business service station and repair shop.
17. Making peace is harder than making war.
18. Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
19. Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.
20. Nature is neutral.
21. Peace is the one condition of survival in this nuclear age.
22. Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.
23. That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another.
24. The first principle of a free society is an untrammeled flow of words in an open forum.
25. The idea that you can merchandise candidates for high office like breakfast cereal - that you can gather votes like box tops - is, I think, the ultimate indignity to the democratic process.
26. The journey of a thousand leagues begins with a single step. So we must never neglect any work of peace within our reach, however small.
27. The relationship of the toastmaster to speaker should be the same as that of the fan to the fan dancer. It should call attention to the subject without making any particular effort to cover it.
28. There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.
29. To act coolly, intelligently and prudently in perilous circumstances is the test of a man - and also a nation.
30. We can chart our future clearly and wisely only when we know the path which has led to the present.
31. We mean by 'politics' the people's business - the most important business there is.
32. We must recover the element of quality in our traditional pursuit of equality. We must not, in opening our schools to everyone, confuse the idea that all should have equal chance with the notion that all have equal endowments.

Famous Quotes By E. M. Forster

 

1. A poem is true if it hangs together. Information points to something else. A poem points to nothing but itself.
2. Beauty ought to look a little surprised: it is the emotion that best suits her face. The beauty who does not look surprised, who accepts her position as her due - she reminds us too much of a prima donna.
3. Charm, in most men and nearly all women, is a decoration.
4. Death destroys a man, but the idea of death saves him.
5. Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life.
6. England has always been disinclined to accept human nature.
7. Faith, to my mind, is a stiffening process, a sort of mental starch.
8. History develops, art stands still.
9. I am so used to seeing the sort of play which deals with one man and two women. They do not leave me with the feeling I have made a full theatrical meal they do not give me the experience of the multiplicity of life.
10. I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars.
11. I hate the idea of causes, and if I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
12. I have no mystic faith in the people. I have in the individual.
13. If I had to choose between betraying my country and betraying my friend, I hope I should have the guts to betray my country.
14. Love is always being given where it is not required.
15. Nonsense and beauty have close connections.
16. One is certain of nothing but the truth of one's own emotions.
17. One must be fond of people and trust them if one is not to make a mess of life.
18. One of the evils of money is that it tempts us to look at it rather than at the things that it buys.
19. Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
20. People have their own deaths as well as their own lives, and even if there is nothing beyond death, we shall differ in our nothingness.
21. The main facts in human life are five: birth, food, sleep, love and death.
22. The people I respect most behave as if they were immortal and as if society was eternal.
23. The sadness of the incomplete, the sadness that is often Life, but should never be Art.
24. The sort of poetry I seek resides in objects man can't touch.
25. The work of art assumes the existence of the perfect spectator, and is indifferent to the fact that no such person exists.
26. To make us feel small in the right way is a function of art men can only make us feel small in the wrong way.
27. We are willing enough to praise freedom when she is safely tucked away in the past and cannot be a nuisance. In the present, amidst dangers whose outcome we cannot foresee, we get nervous about her, and admit censorship.
28. We must be willing to let go of the life we have planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us.
29. What is the good of your stars and trees, your sunrise and the wind, if they do not enter into our daily lives?
30. What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.
31. Works of art, in my opinion, are the only objects in the material universe to possess internal order, and that is why, though I don't believe that only art matters, I do believe in Art for Art's sake.

Famous Quotes By Edgar Allan Poe

 

1. A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this - that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made - not to understand - but to feel - as crime.
2. All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry.
3. Beauty of whatever kind, in its supreme development, invariably excites the sensitive soul to tears.
4. Deep into that darkness peering, long I stood there, wondering, fearing, doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal ever dared to dream before.
5. Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant.
6. I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.
7. I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago.
8. I wish I could write as mysterious as a cat.
9. I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.
10. It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.
11. It is the nature of truth in general, as of some ores in particular, to be richest when most superficial.
12. Man's real life is happy, chiefly because he is ever expecting that it soon will be so.
13. Poetry is the rhythmical creation of beauty in words.
14. Science has not yet taught us if madness is or is not the sublimity of the intelligence.
15. The boundaries which divide Life from Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and where the other begins?
16. The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
17. The ninety and nine are with dreams, content but the hope of the world made new, is the hundredth man who is grimly bent on making those dreams come true.
18. The nose of a mob is its imagination. By this, at any time, it can be quietly led.
19. There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
20. Those who dream by day are cognizant of many things that escape those who dream only at night.
21. To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.
22. We loved with a love that was more than love.
23. With me poetry has not been a purpose, but a passion.
24. Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Famous Quotes By E. O. Wilson

 

1. A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
2. Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice. Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
3. But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.
4. By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
5. Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
6. For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
7. I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.
8. I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.
9. I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.
10. I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.
11. If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
12. If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way. The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
13. If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
14. In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.
15. Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
16. Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
17. People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
18. Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
19. Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
20. Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
21. The biological evolutionary perception of life and of human qualities is radically different from that of traditional religion, whether it's Southern Baptist or Islam or any religion that believes in a supernatural supervalance over humanity.
22. The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
23. The essence of humanity's spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
24. The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.
25. Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
26. True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
27. We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
28. Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
29. You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.

Famous Quotes By Tori Amos

 

1. A key to keeping your husband is getting him to miss you. That keeps a marriage fresh.
2. After a while of getting jerked around, you realize what the business is really made up of.
3. Healing takes courage, and we all have courage, even if we have to dig a little to find it.
4. I became a mom at 37 and having a child has been an emancipation for me.
5. I don't know if the average person really has faith in Washington anymore.
6. I don't mind a dirty girl. But what I find tragic is when we, as women, become not the subject of our own story but someone else's object.
7. I don't see music as working.
8. I have a great relationship with my mother-in-law. We're both Leos, we understand each other.
9. I have so many different personalities in me and I still feel lonely.
10. I remember driving to North Carolina when I was a little girl in a snowstorm to get down to my mom's family in the Carolinas. There were chains on the car - it was the late sixties - and we were just singing in the car. Christmas carols.
11. I think even in a good marriage, especially if you stay together long enough, there are going to be events that happen.
12. I think having a child can really change you if you're open to it.
13. I think there's a time as a writer when you want to see the best things in life, and you go out wherever you go with your dreams as a writer or a composer.
14. I usually get myself into situations that cause sparks. I mean I'm a girl that likes the storms. I love feeling alive, I love walking out in the cold in my bare feet and feeling the ice on my toes.
15. If I was writing songs just for me I'd only play them in my living room, alone.
16. If you have an issue with homosexuality, then it comes to your own fear and your own darkness.
17. In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
18. I've got tonnes of aboriginal and Native American art, but I'd like even more.
19. I've had to keep exploring different ways of presenting the music so I don't repeat myself.
20. Music is always a reflection of what's going on in the hearts and minds of the culture.
21. My father has a pragmatic mind. He marched with Dr. King in the '60s, and he's very much for women's rights.
22. My father was a minister and so rock music was banned in our house.
23. Our generation has an incredible amount of realism, yet at the same time it loves to complain and not really change. Because, if it does change, then it won't have anything to complain about.
24. People assume that all artists make for terrible business people, but I'm in complete charge of my own career.
25. People listen to music the way they want to listen to music.
26. The fact that religion plays such a part in how people vote troubles me, troubles me as a minister's daughter. Because I always felt that the separation of church and state was what our forefathers and foremothers really fought for.
27. The violence betwen women is unbelievable. Women try to make each other crawl so that their knees are bleeding.
28. There are older men with younger women but you don't see a lot of older women with younger men. There are some women who have been able to do it but not often.
29. There is a phenomenal amount of pressure on women in this industry: they are considered vintage by the time they hit their mid-30s.
30. There's a side to this industry that nurtures divas who can't write. It's a big business.
31. This was a time frame when dance music and clubs were having a real impact on culture, and it had an impact on me.
32. Well, I have a lot of food references in my work.
33. When I play live, it's a conversation that we're all having with the song, and the audience... their response and relationship with the songs is as valid as my relationship with the songs.
34. When I was little, my mom tells me, I used to say things like, 'Mom do you hear the string section? Do you hear the string section?' And she would look at me and say, 'No honey, I don't know what you're talking about.'
35. You can be self-empowered and still learning about how you think about things daily.
36. You'd think that in this age, especially in the 21st century - especially with all the technology and all the discoveries that we've made - that we would figure out how to tackle abuse.

Famous Quotes By Socrates

 

1. All men's souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine.
2. As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.
3. Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.
4. Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
5. Beauty is the bait which with delight allures man to enlarge his kind.
6. Beware the barrenness of a busy life.
7. By all means, marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy if you get a bad one, you'll become a philosopher.
8. Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.
9. Employ your time in improving yourself by other men's writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.
10. He is a man of courage who does not run away, but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
11. He is richest who is content with the least, for content is the wealth of nature.
12. I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
13. I know that I am intelligent, because I know that I know nothing.
14. I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.
15. My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy if not, you'll become a philosopher.
16. Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.
17. Ordinary people seem not to realize that those who really apply themselves in the right way to philosophy are directly and of their own accord preparing themselves for dying and death.
18. Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.
19. The end of life is to be like God, and the soul following God will be like Him.
20. The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.
21. The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
22. The unexamined life is not worth living.
23. The way to gain a good reputation is to endeavor to be what you desire to appear.
24. To know, is to know that you know nothing. That is the meaning of true knowledge.
25. True knowledge exists in knowing that you know nothing.
26. True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.
27. Where there is reverence there is fear, but there is not reverence everywhere that there is fear, because fear presumably has a wider extension than reverence.
28. Wisdom begins in wonder.

Famous Quotes By Havelock Ellis

 

1. A sublime faith in human imbecility has seldom led those who cherish it astray.
2. All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.
3. 'Charm' - which means the power to effect work without employing brute force - is indispensable to women. Charm is a woman's strength just as strength is a man's charm.
4. Dreams are real as long as they last. Can we say more of life?
5. Education, whatever else it should or should not be, must be an inoculation against the poisons of life and an adequate equipment in knowledge and skill for meeting the chances of life.
6. Every artist writes his own autobiography.
7. Failing to find in women exactly the same kind of sexual emotions, as they find in themselves, men have concluded that there are none there at all.
8. For every fresh stage in our lives we need a fresh education, and there is no stage for which so little educational preparation is made as that which follows the reproductive period.
9. I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.
10. If men and women are to understand each other, to enter into each other's nature with mutual sympathy, and to become capable of genuine comradeship, the foundation must be laid in youth.
11. In the early days of Christianity the exercise of chastity was frequently combined with a close and romantic intimacy of affection between the sexes which shocked austere moralists.
12. It has always been difficult for Man to realize that his life is all an art. It has been more difficult to conceive it so than to act it so. For that is always how he has more or less acted it.
13. It is becoming clear that the old platitudes can no longer be maintained, and that if we wish to improve our morals we must first improve our knowledge.
14. It is on our failures that we base a new and different and better success.
15. Jealousy, that dragon which slays love under the pretence of keeping it alive.
16. Man lives by imagination.
17. Men who know themselves are no longer fools. They stand on the threshold of the door of Wisdom.
18. Pain and death are part of life. To reject them is to reject life itself.
19. The absence of flaw in beauty is itself a flaw.
20. The art of dancing stands at the source of all the arts that express themselves first in the human person. The art of building, or architecture, is the beginning of all the arts that lie outside the person and in the end they unite.
21. The average husband enjoys the total effect of his home but is usually unable to contribute any of the details of work and organisation that make it enjoyable.
22. The romantic embrace can only be compared with music and with prayer.
23. The sanitary and mechanical age we are now entering makes up for the mercy it grants to our sense of smell by the ferocity with which it assails our sense of hearing.
24. The sun, the moon and the stars would have disappeared long ago... had they happened to be within the reach of predatory human hands.
25. There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.
26. There is nothing that war has ever achieved that we could not better achieve without it.
27. Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
28. What we call progress is the exchange of one nuisance for another nuisance.

Famous Quotes By Sloane Crosley

 

1. Air travel is the safest form of travel aside from walking even then, the chances of being hit by a public bus at 30,000 feet are remarkably slim. I also have no problem with confined spaces. Or heights. What I am afraid of is speed.
2. Alaska is what happens when Willy Wonka and the witch from Hansel and Gretel elope, buy a place together upstate, renounce their sweet teeth, and turn into health fanatics.
3. I have a disproportionate amount of faith in the goodness of the world and that everything will actually work out okay.
4. I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.
5. I like to try to do a little work before I do anything in the morning, even if it's a paragraph.
6. I think a lot of humor is about distracting yourself. Pretend you're not trying to make it funny. Because for some reason the effort to be funny smells like sulphur in our culture.
7. I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.
8. I'm a summer baby, so I usually have my birthday as a good summer memory.
9. My mother is a special education teacher but also an artist, and my father an advertising executive. They are about as wacky as you can get without being alcoholics.
10. Our culture's obsession with vintage objects has rendered us unable to separate history from nostalgia. People want heart. They want a chaser of emotion with their aesthetics.
11. Personal technology has given us the freedom of being able to do whatever we want - and in the case of celebrities and athletes, whomever they want. But it can also serve as a humiliation jetpack.
12. The hardest thing is spending twelve hours a day accommodating the rest of the world, then going home at night and criticizing it. I would be curious about what I'd write if I didn't have to worry about offending.
13. The truth is, I wrote a novel when I was 23. It's hideously bad. Truly rotten.
14. The year most of my high school friends and I got our driver's permits, the coolest thing one could do was stand outside after school and twirl one's car keys like a lifeguard whistle. That jingling sound meant freedom and power.
15. You can't possibly fathom the ins and outs of a prepubescent beauty treatment until you've felt the strange but exhilarating tingle of a cottage-cheese-and-Pop-Rocks facial.

Famous Quotes By William J. Clinton

 

1. A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
2. American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted.
3. Because primarily of the power of the Internet, people of modest means can band together and amass vast sums of money that can change the world for some public good if they all agree.
4. Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared
5. I came of age believing that, no matter what happened, I would always be able to support myself.
6. I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.
7. I haven't eaten at a McDonald's since I became President.
8. I still believe in a place called Hope.
9. I want American Dream growth - lots of new businesses, well-paying jobs, and American leadership in new industries, like clean energy and biotechnology.
10. If Saddam rejects peace and we have to use force, our purpose is clear. We want to seriously diminish the threat posed by Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program.
11. If you live long enough, you'll make mistakes. But if you learn from them, you'll be a better person. It's how you handle adversity, not how it affects you. The main thing is never quit, never quit, never quit.
12. In the new economy, information, education, and motivation are everything.
13. In today's knowledge-based economy, what you earn depends on what you learn. Jobs in the information technology sector, for example, pay 85 percent more than the private sector average.
14. Part of our essential humanity is paying respect to what God gave us and what will be here a long time after we're gone.
15. President Obama's record on national security is a tribute to his strength, and judgment, and to his preference for inclusion and partnership over partisanship.
16. Strength and wisdom are not opposing values.
17. The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.
18. There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured with what is right in America.
19. When times are tough and people are frustrated and angry and hurting and uncertain, the politics of constant conflict may be good, but what is good politics does not necessarily work in the real world. What works in the real world is cooperation.
20. When times are tough, constant conflict may be good politics but in the real world, cooperation works better. After all, nobody's right all the time, and a broken clock is right twice a day.
21. Where are the jobs going to come from?Small business, manufacturing and clean energy. Where's the money to finance them? The banks and the corporations in America today have lots of money that they can invest right now.