Quotes by Categories Quotes with PHILOSOPHY Category The individual comes face-to-face with a conspiracy so monstrous he cannot believe it exists. The American mind has not come to a realisation of the evil which has been introduced into our midst. It rejects even the assumption that human creatures could espouse a philosophy which must ultimately destroy all that is good and decent. J. Edgar Hoover philosophy war believe An important tradition within westren philosophy believes in the primacy of natural science as a guide to truth. This is sometimes met with the charge that such an allegiance amounts to scientism - the view that the only things that really exist are those recognized by fundamental physical theory, and that the only forms of genuine knowledge are scientific ones. J. J. C. Smart views philosophy believe The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that 'doing an action,' as used in philosophy, is a highly abstract expression--it is a stand-in used in the place of any (or almost any?) verb with a personal subject, in the same sort of way that 'thing' is a stand-in for anynoun substantive, and 'quality' a stand-in for the adjective. J. L. Austin quality expression philosophy California, that advance post of our civilization, with its huge aircraft factories, TV and film studios, automobile way of life... its flavourless cosmopolitanism, its charlatan philosophies and religions, its lack of anything old and well-tried rooted in tradition and character. J. B. Priestley character philosophy civilization Music expresses feeling, that is to say, gives shape and habitation to feeling, not in space but in time. To the extent that music has a history that is more than a history of its formal evolution, our feelings must have a history too. Perhaps certain qualities of feeling that found expression in music can be recorded by being notated on paper, have become so remote that we can no longer inhabit them as feelings, can get a grasp of them only after long training in the history and philosophy of music, the philosophical history of music, the history of music as a history of the feeling soul. J. M. Coetzee philosophical expression philosophy My philosophy: find what it is you want to say, walk in the room, say it, and get the hell out. J. Michael Straczynski want philosophy rooms Quotes with MEN Category The thing that men and women need to do is stick together Q-Tip together forever men Today the two hundred million men in our country are entering into a civilized new world...but we, the two hundred million women, are still kept down in the dungeon. Qiu Jin men two country White man goes into his churches to talk about Jesus, the Indian into his Tepee to talk to Jesus (with Peyote etc). Quanah Parker white-man men jesus [On being criticized for her serious expression:] I simply ache from smiling. Why are women expected to beam all the time? It's unfair. If a man looks solemn, it's automatically assumed he's a serious person, not a miserable one. Queen Elizabeth II serious-person expression men Were women to "unsex" themselves by claiming equality with men, they would become the most hateful, heathen, and disgusting of beings and would surely perish without male protection. Queen Victoria hateful males men All women need support when they're having their babies and their little families are in formation. I have to say I have a lot of concern about the numbers of women - and men, now - who are not getting the support that they need. There are not the families and the communities around that there used to be. Quentin Bryce numbers baby men Quotes with LAUGHING Category Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us. A. A. Gill laughing television thinking The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch. A. P. Herbert surprise essence laughing I'm the interpreter. I'm the one who takes your words and brings them to life. I was trained to sing and dance and laugh, and that's what I want to do. Aaliyah dance inspirational laughing The blues are three L's - living , loving and hopefully, laughing. B. B. King hopefully three laughing The most exciting thing I aspire to do is to write something new that I know is going to work, or perform something that I know is going to make people laugh. B. J. Novak writing laughing people We should not laugh at the person who becoming caught up in his prayer bends his body or moves about in strange ways. Perhaps he moves in this manner to wave off unwelcome thoughts that would interrupt the prayer. Would we find it funny if we saw a person drowning going through strange motions doing whatever was necessary to save his life? Baal Shem Tov prayer laughing moving Quotes with WATER Category I have always longed to be part of the outward life, to be out there at the edge of things, to let the human taint wash away in emptiness and silence as the fox sloughs his smell into the cold unworldliness of water; to return to town a stranger. Wandering flushes a glory that fades with arrival. J. A. Baker smell silence water Ensuring that high quality water is provided to all Arizona's citizens is the responsibility of elected officials at all levels and I am happy to do all I can to assist the city's efforts. J. D. Hayworth cities responsibility water What can God do for a liar who refuses to repent? Can the Lord save him? He can’t claim salvation. Baptizing him in water will not settle the trouble, unless you keep him under. J. Golden Kimball trouble liars water Our souls are made of water, Goethe says. So too, our bodies. There is a flow within us, rising and falling, unidirectional, to the heart. there is a flow without also. We circulate. We are drawn up, and we fall back down to earth again. It's all haemodynamics. J. M. Ledgard heart water fall The world has changed. I see it in the water. I feel it in the Earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, For none now live who remember it. J. R. R. Tolkien smell air water Don't ever walk by a wilting plant. Get water on it right away. Jack Dangermond wilting plant water Quotes with DRAMA Category A piercing satire, a poignant family drama and an investigation of the competing claims of honesty, loyalty, ambition and love. A. O. Scott honesty loyalty drama I'd like to do more family dramas. Aaron Eckhart family-drama family drama People don't live their lives in a series of scenes that form a dramatic narrative, they don't speak in dialogue, they're not lit by a cinematographer or scored by a composer. The properties of real life and the properties of drama have almost nothing to do with each other. The difference between writing about reporters and being a reporter is the same as the difference between drawing a building and building a building. Aaron Sorkin real drama life I don't remember a drama on TV that had shown a couple could be married but still love each other very much, spend every day as if they were still on their honeymoon, be sensuous, and have fun together. Aaron Spelling couple fun drama If we're not going to take full advantage of digital, then 35mm is a better medium. Especially for shooting dramas - I have no problem with 35mm. Abbas Kiarostami shooting digital drama There's nothing like a good conservatory drama school to really get you ready for the work force. Abby Brammell force drama school Quotes with CHARACTER Category I now can be sure that, once I start writing a book, I'll be able to finish it. I've also become more assured about my 'voice' as a writer and being able to keep the characters true to themselves. J. A. Jance writing character book A prolonged war in which a nation takes part is bound to impoverish the breed, since the character of the breed depends on the men who are left. J. Arthur Thomson character war science Character is doing the right thing when nobody's looking. There are too many people who think that the only thing that's right is to get by, and the only thing that's wrong is to get caught. J. C. Watts integrity character thinking Character lives in a man, reputation outside of him. J. G. Holland reputation character men In the search for character and commitment, we must rid ourselves of our inherited, even cherished biases and prejudices. Character, ability and intelligence are not concentrated in one sex over the other, nor in persons with certain accents or in certain races or in persons holding degrees from some universities over others. When we indulge ourselves in such irrational prejudices, we damage ourselves most of all and ultimately assure ourselves of failure in competition with those more open and less biased. J. Irwin Miller character sex commitment Ultimately, any character you write - no matter how fantastic or alien - is an extension of yourself. When our characters reflect the truth of our souls and psyches, they become real and compelling. The wonderful paradox is that the characters then take on lives of their own, separate from their creators. That's where the magic comes in. J. M. DeMatteis real character book Quotes with GIVING Category Love is taking a few steps backward, maybe even more ... to give way to the happiness of the person you love. A. A. Milne love-is giving way Begin to rejoice in the Lord, and your bones will flourish like an herb, and your cheeks will glow with the bloom of health and freshness. Worry, fear, distrust, care-all are poisonous! Joy is balm and healing, and if you will but rejoice, God will give power. A. B. Simpson healing hope giving We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory. A. B. Yehoshua identity giving people A diary need not be a dreary chronicle of one's movements; it should aim rather at giving salient account of some particular episode, a walk, a book, a conversation. A. C. Benson giving book needs The Lord has different names according to His different activities. For example, His name is Madhusüdana because He killed the demon of the name Madhu; His name is Govinda because He gives pleasure to the cows and to the senses A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada example names giving The science of anti-Semitism finally comes to explain this phenomenon, enlightening further the consciousness of people, fully satisfying their instinct and its violent eruptions thus legitimized by revealing their cause - the parasitism of the Jews. Thus it gives us the formula of the scientific solution for the problem of Judaism, which in order to realize we have only to apply. A. C. Cuza giving order people Quotes with SPORTS Category Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character. A. Bartlett Giamatti success beautiful sports You have no control over what the other guy does. You only have control over what you do. A. J. Kitt acceptance inspirational sports Walking is the favorite sport of the good and wise. A. L. Rowse favorite-sports wise sports I watch a lot of sport on television. I only watch certain sports, and I only watch them live - I don't think I've ever been able to watch a replay of a match or game of which the result was already decided. I feel bound to cheat and look up what can be looked up. A. S. Byatt games sports thinking After love, book collecting is the most exhilarating sport of all. A. S. W. Rosenbach collecting sports book There is no fun equal to the satisfaction of doing one's best. The things that are most worthwhile in life are really those within the reach of almost every normal human being who cares to seek them out. B. C. Forbes leadership fun sports Quotes with SOCCER Category You not only do you appreciate the sacrifices people have made and the hours they've kept and the soccer games they missed and the birthday parties, but I also had a lot of young people who came in here [to White House], and this probably, you know, echoes with you, in your own experience, you were young when you got here. Barack Obama sacrifice party soccer I do not play football, I score goals. Dada Maravilha play football soccer No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and training (I think you can apply this to soccer as well) Dalai Lama practice soccer thinking Scots they're either nice or they're horrid and these two are horrid. The Scots wont like that Eamon, thats bordering on racism. Its not racism its ethnic criticism Bill. Eamon Dunphy nice football soccer Statistics are like miniskirts: They give you good ideas but hide the important things. Ebbe Skovdahl football soccer ideas In his life, a man can change wives, political parties or religions but he cannot change his favourite soccer team. Eduardo Galeano party team soccer Quotes with FOOTBALL Category I have a limited amount of time to build a career out of football and be the best that I can be at this job. When this job is over, I have the rest of my life to do what I want with my time. J. J. Watt careers jobs football Some of football's gaudiest displays of manliness are purely aesthetic. It's not what players do, it's how they look doing it. J. R. Moehringer player football looks I have a feeling that you're riding for some kind of a terrible, terrible fall. But I don't honestly know what kind.... It may be the kind where, at the age of thirty, you sit in some bar hating everybody who comes in looking as if he might have played football in college. Then again, you may pick up just enough education to hate people who say, 'It's a secret between he and I.' Or you may end up in some business office, throwing paper clips at the nearest stenographer. I just don't know. J. D. Salinger hate football fall Footballs, basketballs, microphones, gas and grass... J-Ro rap basketball football As long as I own this football team and long after I'm gone, they will always be the Washington Redskins. Jack Kent Cooke team football long If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler. Jack Lambert player football believe Quotes with JOBS Category Learning to read and write changes lives; it means jobs, money, health, and dreams fulfilled. Queen Rania of Jordan life-changing dream jobs I am a strong woman with or without this other person, with or without this job, and with or without these tight pants. Queen Latifah tight-pants strong-women jobs The idea of public service was instilled in me by watching my father, who shared that he was far more fulfilled in his public service than by his former lucrative corporate jobs. Queen Noor of Jordan jobs father ideas Part of me would just like to relax and have one job that pays me the amount I need to survive. And another part of me wants the creativity that comes out of struggle and frustration and fear. It's a never-ending cycle, which must be how I want it, on some level. Questlove creativity struggle jobs When I'm writing, it's about the page. It's not about the movie. It's not about cinema. It's about the literature of me putting my pen to paper and writing a good page and making it work completely as a document unto itself. That's my first artistic contribution. If I do my job right, by the end of the script, I should be having the thought, 'You know, if I were to just publish this now and not make it . . . I'm done. Quentin Tarantino cinema writing jobs I guess they still show the movie in school, so around the time of movie showing, my Facebook inbox and my Instagram DM is flooded. "Are you the Quindon Tarver from the movie Romeo + Juliet? Oh my god, you did a great job." Quindon Tarver instagram jobs school Quotes with FRIENDSHIP Category Now hollow fires burn out to black, And lights are guttering low: Square your shoulders, lift your pack And leave your friends and go. A. E. Housman squares fire friendship A man and his dog is a sacred relationship. What nature hath put together let no woman put asunder. A. R. Gurney dog friendship funny Nothing is more limiting than a closed circle of acquaintanceship where every avenue of conversation has been explored and social exchanges are fixed in a known routine. A.J. Cronin routine circles friendship Winning has always meant much to me, but winning friends has meant the most. Babe Didrikson Zaharias motivational inspirational friendship Do not be content with showing friendship in words alone, let your heart burn with loving kindness for all who may cross your path. Bahá'u'lláh kindness heart friendship Friendship multiplies the good of life and divides the evil. Baltasar Gracian true-friend relationship friendship Quotes with RELATIONSHIP Category Justice is never given; it is exacted and the struggle must be continuous for freedom is never a final fact, but a continuing evolving process to higher and higher levels of human, social, economic, political and religious relationship. A. Philip Randolph freedom religious relationship If you are serious, don't play with my heart, it makes me furious. Aaron Neville play heart relationship We never know how far reaching something we may think, say or do today will affect the lives of millions tomorrow. B. J. Palmer success inspirational relationship The relationship between husband and wife should be one of closest friends. B. R. Ambedkar friends marriage relationship As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy. Babe Ruth baseball relationship sports Living with integrity means...not settling for less than what you know you deserve in your relationships; asking for what you want and need from others; speaking your truth, even though it might create conflict or tension; behaving in ways that are in harmony with your personal values; making choices based on what you believe, and not what others believe. Barbara De Angelis integrity inspirational relationship Quotes with ROMANTIC Category You make me want to be a better man. Jack Nicholson love romantic men Vinyl is the real deal. I've always felt like, until you buy the vinyl record, you don't really own the album. And it's not just me or a little pet thing or some kind of retro romantic thing from the past. It is still alive. Jack White real romantic past Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle, love is a war; love is a growing up. James A. Baldwin love romantic relationship Will you be my shoulder when I'm gray and older? Promise me tomorrow starts with you. Getting high, running wild among the stars above. Sometimes it's hard to believe you remember me. James Blunt stars running romantic Acting is not about anything romantic, not even fantasy, although you do create fantasy. James Earl Jones romantic-love acting romantic Satan, really, is the romantic youth of Jesus re-appearing for a moment. James Joyce youth romantic jesus Quotes with LOVE Category In Christ, there is nothing I can do that would make You love me more and nothing I have done that makes You love me less. J. D. Greear god love jesus We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are. J. K. Rowling dark inspirational love My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never. Jack Benny love relationship funny People spend their lives searching for their one true love, their other half. I found mine in college, dancing in a fraternity house driveway. Lucky for me, she found me right back. Jack Carter college love people Parents have this twisted belief that anyone under the age of about twenty simply can’t know what love is, like the age to love is assessed in the same way the law assesses the legal age to drink. They think that the ‘emotional growth’ of a teenager’s mind is too underdeveloped to understand love, to know if it’s ‘real’ or not. J.A. Redmerski teenager real love For me, writing is exploration; and most of the time, I'm surprised where the journey takes me. Jack Dann journey writing love Quotes with INSPIRATIONAL Category Live by faith and not by fear. Quentin L. Cook live-by spiritual inspirational The people who make it to the top - whether they're musicians, or great chefs, or corporate honchos - are addicted to their calling ... [they] are the ones who'd be doing whatever it is they love, even if they weren't being paid. Quincy Jones loving-what-you-do motivational inspirational That which offends the ear will not easily gain admission to the mind. Quintilian ears mind inspirational You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete. R. Buckminster Fuller change wisdom inspirational If a man has important work, and enough leisure and income to enable him to do it properly, he is in possession of as much happiness as is good for any of the children of Adam. R. H. Tawney work inspirational children Creative people who can't help but explore other mental territories are at greater risk, just as someone who climbs a mountain is more at risk than someone who just walks along a village lane. R. D. Laing creativity inspirational people Quotes with MEANINGFUL Category Life is just a chance to grow a soul. A. Powell Davies meaningful inspirational life We are coming to understand health not as the absence of disease, but rather as the process by which individuals maintain their sense of coherence (i.e. sense that life is comprehensible, manageable, and meaningful) and ability to function in the face of changes in themselves and their relationships with their environment. Aaron Antonovsky change meaningful life I tend to not discriminate when it comes to people I can learn from. Basically, if someone has built a meaningful business in software, technology or media, faced disruption and adversity, and overcame underdog status, I want to know how they did it. Aaron Levie adversity technology meaningful The traditional difficulty of balancing the mechanical with the imaginative schools of photography still operates. In schools of photography meaningful art education is often lacking and on the strength of their technical ability alone students, deprived of a richer artistic training, are sent forth inculcated with the belief that they are creative photographers and artists. It is yet a fact that today, as in the past, the most inspiring and provocative works in photography come as much (and probably more) from those who are in the first place artists. Aaron Scharf photography meaningful art And I say, the meaning of life is what you make it. There will be as many different meaningful lives as there are people to live them. A.C. Grayling meaning-of-life meaningful people Few places in American culture have made as effective a case for entrepreneurship than hip-hop. Hip-hop tells young people that our society is offering very limited options for youth. And that while society points to a radical decline in living wage jobs for youth and meaningful and affordable education, hip-hop is offering an alternative legitimate economy that is giving youth hope. Bakari Kitwana offering meaningful jobs Quotes with GOODBYE Category Goodbye, my almost lover. Goodbye, my hopeless dream. A Fine Frenzy dream goodbye thinking Goodbyes weren't all they were cracked up to be Abbi Glines cracked goodbye It makes no sense to bad mouth people, but I think Jean-Luc Godard is astonishing as a survivalist, somebody who can do a film that is as extraordinary as Goodbye to Language. Babette Mangolte goodbye people thinking This world of ours is piled high with farewells and goodbyes of so many different kinds, like the evening sky renewing itself again and again from one instant to the next-and I didn’t want to forget a single one. Banana Yoshimoto farewell sky goodbye True love doesn't have a happy ending, because true love never ends. Letting go is one way of saying I love you. Barbara Johnson true-love letting-go goodbye I hope no one who reads this book has been quite as miserable as Susan and Lucy were that night; but if you have been - if you've been up all night and cried till you have no more tears left in you - you will know that there comes in the end a sort of quietness. You feel as if nothing is ever going to happen again. C. S. Lewis goodbye night book Quotes with EARNING Category The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning. Baden Powell de Aquino hunting wisdom earning A man is a failure who goes through life earning nothing but money. Charles A. Beard earning men There are now businesses and entire industries that exist solely as a result of federal patronage. Profiting from government instead of earning profits in the economy, such businesses can continue to succeed even if they are squandering resources and making products that people wouldn't ordinarily buy. Charles Koch government earning people I have no ambitions beyond being comfortable in what I do for a living - and earning a living. Craig Ferguson comfortable ambition earning Grace is not opposed to effort; it's opposed to earning. Dallas Willard effort grace earning Success is not the result of making money; earning money is the result of success — and success is in direct proportion to our service. Earl Nightingale making-money results earning Quotes with QUIET Category You have to ask yourself the question 'Who am I?' This investigation will lead in the end to the discovery of something within you which is behind the mind. Solve that great problem and you will solve all other problems. Ramana Maharshi mind discovery quiet Most men lead lives of quiet desperation. I can't take quiet desperation! Ray Milland desperation quiet men You have to find that place that is very quiet in your head, and anytime I read it, anytime I come across it, my Bible, the first Scripture in there is Psalms 91. Ray Lewis scripture quiet firsts Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts. Rebecca West certain music quiet The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. Richard Le Gallienne smile love-is quiet Live so as to have a quiet conscience. Richard L. Evans conscience quiet «1234567891011»