Quotes by Categories Quotes with THINKING Category The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule. A. A. Gill interesting school thinking The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking. A. A. Milne integrity happiness thinking Our God has boundless resources. The only limit is in us. Our asking, our thinking, our praying are too small. Our expectations are too limited. A. B. Simpson asking expectations thinking I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples. A. B. Yehoshua claims losing thinking My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs. A. Bartlett Giamatti goal people thinking I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed. A. C. Benson views sympathy thinking Quotes with FIRSTS Category From the time I read my first Hemingway work, The Sun Also Rises, as a student at Soldan High School in St. Louis, I was struck with an affliction common to my generation: Hemingway Awe. A. E. Hotchner sun school firsts Emperor Lucifer, Master and Prince of Rebellious Spirits, I adjure thee to leave thine abode, in what-ever quarter of the world it may be situated and come hither to communicate with me. A. E. Waite may world firsts First you find a little thread, a little thread leads you to a string, and the string leads you to a rope. And from the rope you hang by the neck. A. I. Bezzerides high-heels littles firsts If the first requisite for writing well about food is a good appetite, the second is to put in your apprenticeship as a feeder when you have enough money to pay the check but not enough to produce indifference of the total. A. J. Liebling writing pay firsts Music first, music last, music always A. J. McLean lasts firsts Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914. A. J. P. Taylor war world firsts Quotes with CHRIST Category There is a word Kristos in the Greek dictionary, and this word is supposed to be borrowed from the Sanskrit word "Krishna," and Christ is derived from Kristos. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada krishna greek christ We have but one Saviour; and that one Saviour is Jesus Christ our Lord. Nothing that we are and nothing that we can do enters in the slightest measure into the ground of our acceptance with God. Jesus did it all. B. B. Warfield acceptance jesus christ I attend Trinity United Church of Christ, and my pastor [was] Jeremiah Wright. Barack Obama jeremiah church christ The personal desolation Christ is experiencing on the cross is what you and I should be experiencing--but instead, Jesus is bearing it, and bearing it all alone. C. J. Mahaney might jesus christ Faith in Christ is the only thing to save you from despair. C. S. Lewis despair inspirational christ We all must do what Christ did. We must make our experiment. We must make mistakes. We must live out our own version of life. And there will be error. If you avoid error you do not live. Carl Jung errors mistake christ Quotes with JESUS Category If you are walking with Jesus, in the Spirit, you need not fear going too far. No believer has gone as far as God wants him to go A. A. Allen needs religion jesus When we have accepted Jesus Christ, we have become akin to the Father; having become real children of God, we then have the spirit of sonship by which we can come into His presence and make known our wants in a familiar way. A. C. Dixon prayer children jesus When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion. A. N. Wilson sunday christian jesus We're not going to survive in this world, temporally or spiritually, without increased faith in the Lord-and I don't mean a positive mental attitude-I mean downright solid faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. That is the one thing that gives vitality and power to otherwise rather weak individuals. A. Theodore Tuttle attitude mean jesus …for a true Christian, all strangers are Jesus. A.A. Attanasio stranger christian jesus I had a nice read on the putt and I said to myself, 'This is for you, Jesus, ' and knocked it in. Aaron Baddeley nice said jesus Quotes with RELIGION Category A religion that costs nothing is worth nothing. A cheap Christianity, without a cross, will prove in the end a useless Christianity, without a crown. J. C. Ryle deep-thought christian religion The simple statement, 'God is for us', is in truth one of the richest and weightiest utterances that the Bible contains. J. I. Packer utterance simple religion A man who feels that his religion is a slavery has not begun to comprehend the real nature of religion. J. G. Holland real men religion who wants flowers when youre dead? nobody. J. D. Salinger flower want religion You see, you don't get old from age, you get old from inactivity, from not believing in something. Jack LaLanne healthy believe religion I believe that when I am dead, I am dead. I believe that with my death I am just as much obliterated as the last mosquito you and I squashed. Jack London atheism believe religion Quotes with NEEDS Category When you have an important story to tell, the words you need seem to come of their own accord. J. A. Jance important stories needs We need to substitute for the book a device that will make it easy to transmit information without transporting material. J. C. R. Licklider science book needs If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear. J. B. Priestley despair degrees needs To be evil at all, Satan needs good things he can abuse, things like intelligence, power and will. Those good things come from God. J. Budziszewski abuse evil needs You are perfect exactly as you are. With all your flaws and problems, there's no need to change anything. All you need to change is the thought that you aren't good enough. J. Cole problem perfect needs Solar power is clean, renewable and cost effective, but it also needs time to develop. J. D. Hayworth cleaning cost needs Quotes with MOVING Category know the feelin, when you feelin like a villain, Q-Tip rap stress moving You can't let fear paralyze you. The worse that can happen is you fail, but guess what: You get up and try again. Feel that pain, get over it, get up, dust yourself off and keep it moving. Queen Latifah pain dust moving How do you plan a rebirth? I'm not sure you do. You just stand in the darkness until you can't endure it any long, and then you move forward until you're standing in the light. Questlove light long moving I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes/Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake." Quentin S. Crisp song country moving Objective evaluations set the foundation that moves leaders to the tipping point. Quint Studer learning teaching moving When you have shot and killed a man you have in some measure clarified your attitude toward him. You have given a definite answer to a definite problem. For better or worse you have acted decisively. In a way, the next move is up to him. R. A. Lafferty humorous attitude moving Quotes with FALL Category Stars, I have seen them fall, But when they drop and die No star is lost at all From all the star-sown sky. The toil of all that be Helps not the primal fault; It rains into the sea And still the sea is salt. A. E. Housman stars rain fall The rain is plentious but, by God's decree, A. P. Herbert rain running fall Nothing is as easy or natural as consumer brands want us to think - no problem is as resolvable. Your hair will fall out, eventually. Yet we do have these brands, and we line our shelves with them. There's an inherent irony. Aaron Belz hair fall thinking I would say it's always been in me to want to have victorious songs. I sort of want my songs to have a feeling of victory, but through a lot of pain. Like, you're 75 percent to the top of the mountain and sometimes you fall back to the bottom, but hopefully by the end of the record you'll feel like there's no mountain at all. Aaron Bruno pain song fall I will never slide, never fall, never fail. Aaron Dontez Yates slides failing fall There is no opposition party. And the party that is in power is falling apart. Doesn't that kind of mean the country's falling apart? I don't wanna be accused of being an alarmist, but if there's nothing to replace the government with in terms of an opposition party, and you see it all falling down around you, well doesn't that mean that we're all kind of screwed? It kind of feels that way to me. And I'm pretty worried about it, to be honest with you. Aaron McGruder party mean fall Quotes with SON Category Mothers are inscrutable beings to their sons, always. A. E. Coppard mom mother son Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call it a movie) that I have ever seen. He thought it was better than Finding Nemo and we had a fruitless argument which I'm sure made him acutely aware of the disadvantages of having a film critic for a dad. A. O. Scott film-critics dad son She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good God as the one they preyed to, could condemn the whole earth for sinfulness and flood it, or condemn his only Son to a disgusting death on behalf of everyone. This death did not seem to have done much good. A. S. Byatt nice children son When most people think of Woodrow Wilson, they see a dour minister's son who never cracked a smile, where in fact he was a man of genuine joy and great sadness. A. Scott Berg sadness men son I do enjoy the fact that we don't have a king or queen; we have a person with a very unusual temp job for a few years. My favorite moments on the show were always showing the intersection of the person and the job. Any time Bartlet from the West Wing could be something other than the president - a father, or a husband, or a son, or a friend. Aaron Sorkin husband father son The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.". Aaron Stanford jobs hands son Quotes with SCHOOL Category A little group of thatched cottages in the middle of the village had an orchard attached; and I remember well the peculiar purity of the blue sky seen through the white clusters of apple blossom in spring. I remember being moonstruck looking at it one morning early on my way to school. It meant something for me; what, I couldn't say. It gave me such an unease at heart, some reaching out towards perfection such as impels men into religion, some sense of the transcendence of things, of the fragility of our hold on life. A. L. Rowse spring morning school Equality is the heart and essence of democracy, freedom, and justice, equality of opportunity in industry, in labor unions, schools and colleges, government, politics, and before the law. There must be no dual standards of justice, no dual rights, privileges, duties, or responsibilities of citizenship. No dual forms of freedom. A. Philip Randolph responsibility heart school The best way would be education and kids and all that stuff and then education and working education comes through. Then I started a music school and the music school now teaches kids to play the violin and the viola. A. R. Rahman play kids school I've been singing all my life. I've always wanted this. I sang in church, in school plays, and my parents gave me vocal lessons. My parents always said this was destined for me. Aaliyah parent play school In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way. Aaron Brookner uncles college school When I was 14 a chaplain at school gave me a reading list. I read everything and I went back to him with a question: how can you really believe in this stuff? A.C. Grayling reading believe school Quotes with INTERESTING Category It's difficult for me to feel that a solid page without the breakups of paragraphs can be interesting. I break mine up perhaps sooner than I should in terms of the usage of the English language. A. E. van Vogt breakup break-up interesting One of the interesting things to me is that God grows throughout the Old Testament. He evolves, sort of matures, and becomes kinder. A. J. Jacobs evolve old-testament interesting At the end of the day, if I do a set at a festival and I only have an hour, which is kind of short for a DJ set, I know that I have to play at least six of my songs. Then the whole challenge is what do I weave around that. How do I stand out? Because at a festival there's probably fifteen songs every DJ's going to play every hour, for the whole day. That to me is more interesting, because I still feel like an outsider in this world. A-Trak play song interesting That was interesting." "He deliberately countermanded one of my orders." "He was furtive." "Sneaky, even." "We'll make a Rebellion-style pilot of him yet." Tycho & Wedge (about Jag) Aaron Allston style order interesting I did not feel a particularly strong call to any one subject, but read voraciously and widely and began to find science interesting. Aaron Klug strong feels interesting Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies... the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. Aaron Koblin technology long interesting Quotes with ART Category ... the battle for the acceptance of photography as Art was not only counter-productive but counter-revolutionary. The most important photography is most emphatically not Art. A. D. Coleman photography acceptance art Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. Having once experienced the mystery, plenitude, contradiction, and composure of a work of art, we afterward have a built-in resistance to the slogans and propaganda of oversimplification that have often contributed to the destruction of human life. Poetry is a verbal means to a nonverbal source. It is a motion to no-motion, to the still point of contemplation and deep realization. A. R. Ammons self mean art The obedient in art are always the forgotten . . . The country is glorious but its beauties are unknown, and but waiting for a real live artist to splash them onto canvas . . . Chop your own path. Get off the car track. A. Y. Jackson real country art Design should do the same thing in everyday life that art does when encountered: amaze us, scare us or delight us, but certainly open us to new worlds within our daily existence. Aaron Betsky design everyday art The whole problem can be stated quite simply by asking "Is there a meaning to music?" My answer would be, "Yes", And "Can you state in so many words what the meaning is?" My answer to that would be "No." Aaron Copland music would-be art Art, however innocent, looks like deceiving. Aaron Hill deceiving looks art Quotes with KNOWLEDGE Category No one can take it away from you. B. B. King education teacher knowledge Vitally important for a young man or woman is, first, to realize the value of education and then to cultivate earnestly, aggressively, ceaselessly, the habit of self-education. B. C. Forbes wisdom men knowledge Know or listen to those who know. Baltasar Gracian belief motivational knowledge Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little. D. H. Lawrence age birthday knowledge You are merely the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency - your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end and remain purely as a means. Dag Hammarskjold learning life knowledge If we don't understand phenomena, we are more likely to do things to harm ourselves and others. Dalai Lama harm ifs knowledge Quotes with IDEAS Category The most powerful factors in the world are clear ideas in the minds of energetic men of good will. J. Arthur Thomson powerful men ideas My idea of good poetry is any dog doing anything. J. Boone good-poetry dog ideas Why on earth should we be at each other's throats? Why do people insist on defending their ideas and opinions with such ferocity, as if defending honour itself? What could be easier to change than an idea? J. G. Farrell earth people ideas I want to advise this people, if the Lord ever does give you an inspiration, for heaven's sake write it down and remember it. J. Golden Kimball inspiration writing ideas I do think, however, that there's a very diverse point of view in the African-American community. There's a lot of different voices that need to be heard. I don't claim and pretend to know the thoughts and opinions and ideas of all African-Americans. J. C. Watts views ideas thinking Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged. J Harlen Bretz intellectual men ideas Quotes with TRAVEL Category No matter where you are, you're always a bit on your own, always an outsider. Banana Yoshimoto matter inspire travel For the drover's life has pleasures that the townsfolk never know. Banjo Paterson cowboy life travel There are places one comes home to that one has never been to. Barbara Grizzuti Harrison coming-home home travel Everything you're sure is right can be wrong in another place. Barbara Kingsolver travel How did Italy manage to end up with no Caribbean islands at all? Christopher Columbus took the trouble to discover the Caribbean personally before the end of the fifteenth century. Try to get a decent plate of spaghetti there now. Calvin Trillin islands home travel Believe me, you can get into a lot of trouble being sixteen years old in a foreign country with no adult telling you when to come home. Cameron Diaz believe country travel Quotes with YEARS Category No matter how much we learn, there is always more knowledge to be gained. In this connection I am reminded of a short poem that has been in my mind over the years. It reads as follow: I used to think I knew I knew. But now I must confess. The more I know I know I know I know I know the less. A. Ray Olpin learning years thinking We hope we're better. The reality is we had a pretty darn good team last year. But you can't just throw your gloves out there and be good again. We want to take that next step as a team. Aaron Boone team reality years At 23 years old, I came into politics as a dragon slayer. At 63 years old, I'm going out as a dragon. Aaron Broussard going-out dragons years I've been working for many years and I think I've managed to work with some of the best people in the business, which has been rewarding and an apprenticeship. Aaron Eckhart people years thinking We've been pretty successful over the years, not necessarily adding series regulars, but just bringing long-term recurring characters. In my opinion, it's sort of like as life goes, you have people that come in and out of your life. Aaron Korsh successful character years Everything about the enterprise, and then by definition the software the enterprise uses has changed - just in the last 5 years. Aaron Levie definitions use years Quotes with WORLD Category God help us if we ever take the theater out of the auction business or anything else. It would be an awfully boring world. A. Alfred Taubman would-be auctions world Nowhere in the world can the Jew savor the taste of Homeland save in the Land of Israel. A. D. Gordon israel land world Priests might divide the world into good and bad. In battle there was strong and weak and nothing else. A. J. Hartley battle strong world In a world built on violence, one must be a revolutionary before one can be a pacifist. A. J. Muste revolutionary violence world It was one thing to hide away from the world. It was quite another to discover the world didn't miss you when you were gone. A. Lee Martinez gone missing world When would I stop being second choice? Would I ever be number one to the person I cared most about in the world? A. Meredith Walters choices numbers world Quotes with PROMISE Category It is cheap generosity which promises the future in compensation for the present. J. A. Spender compensation generosity promise There's no point breaking a lot of crockery unnecessarily. J. Carter Brown point-break breaking-promises promise His chin grazed the top of my head and then his lips brushed across my forehead. “I’m not going anywhere,” he said. “I’ll be right here when you wake up, sweetheart. I promise. J. Lynn lips wake-up promise We have reached one of the great stages in the adventure of thought … We are required to see the universe with new eyes, and it is because it makes such demands and also holds out the promise of realizing them, that the study of science is so supremely worth while. J. W. N. Sullivan eye adventure promise You probably think I’m at a disadvantage. I promise you, I’m not. Jack Bauer i-promise promise thinking Promise me that if I ever get Alzheimer’s or dementia, and I don’t remember anyone that you’ll visit me every day and read to me like Noah read to Allie. J.A. Redmerski alzheimers remember promise Quotes with LOBSTER Category Lobsters one of the only animals that have to put up with being alive in the restaurant. If you go to a steakhouse, folks - no cow tank. Richard Jeni tanks animal lobster Am I really just a narcissist, Rick Ross rap hip-hop lobster As a boy I was a hermit crab, but I soon came out of my shell. Now I am a pincer crab, and soon I will be at my full power as a deadly nuclear lobster. Thom Yorke nuclear boys lobster When life gives you lemons, order the lobster tail. Ziad K. Abdelnour giving order lobster Quotes with COMPLIMENT Category I'm not confident around compliments or being celebrated, and I'm not comfortable with the thought of envy, which some people thrive on. Rachel Weisz envy people compliment "True" resembles... a compliment paid to sentences that seem to be paying their way and that fit in with other sentences which are doing so. Richard Rorty truth-is way compliment Set screamed something in Ancient Egyptian. I was fairly sure it wasn’t a compliment. “I will rend your limbs from their sockets!” he shouted. “I will—” “Die?” Carter suggested. Rick Riordan ancient egyptian compliment A compliment is verbal sunshine. Robert Orben sunshine compliment Anytime anybody impersonates you, it's a great compliment. Robert Wagner impersonate compliment My love for you is immeasurable, my respect for you immense. You're ageless, timeless, lace and fineness, you're beauty and elegance. Rod Stewart my-love-for-you lace compliment 1234567891011»