Quotes by Categories Quotes with DISCOVERY Category One of the advantages of being disorganized is the joy of discovery. A. A. Milne joy discovery piglet Gilbert White discovered the formula for complete happiness, but he died before making the announcement, leaving it for me to do so. It is to be very busy with the unimportant. A. Edward Newton white discovery happiness If a poem is each time new, then it is necessarily an act of discovery, a chance taken, a chance that may lead to fulfillment or disaster A. R. Ammons taken may discovery I was given a small camera as a wedding gift from a very dear friend. My first pictures were taken on my honeymoon. As soon as I became familiar with the camera, I was intrigued with the possibilities of expression it offered. It was like a discovery for me. Aaron Siskind photography taken discovery The process of my transformation came to a head with my discovery of St. Francis of Assisi during a pilgrimage I went on with a scout troop from my school. Abbe Pierre st-francis-of-assisi discovery school If criticism has made such discoveries as to necessitate the abandonment of the doctrine of plenary inspiration, it is not enough to say that we are compelled to abandon only a "particular theory of inspiration..." We must go on to say that that "particular theory of inspiration" is the theory of the apostles and of the Lord, and that in abandoning it we are abandoning them. B. B. Warfield criticism inspiration discovery Quotes with JOY Category To multiply your joy, count your blessings. J. B. Priestley count-your-blessings blessing joy The Gospel Prayer J. D. Greear compassion prayer joy Joys divided are increased. J. G. Holland joy happiness life I'm delirious with joy. It proves that if you confront the universe with good intentions in your heart, it will reflect that and reward your intent. Usually. It just doesn't always do it in the way you expect. J. Michael Straczynski rewards heart joy Joy is a condition that is experienced, but it is more than a feeling; it is, primarily, a state of mind. J. I. Packer mind feelings joy Once the joy of intimacy with God has been experienced, life becomes unbearable without it. J. Oswald Sanders unbearable intimacy joy Quotes with WEATHER Category A good roast of sun, it slows you, lets you relax–and out here if there's anything wrong, you can see it coming with bags of time to do what's next. This is the place and the weather for peace, for the cultivation of a friendly mind. A.L. Kennedy mind friendly weather Extreme weather events continue to grow more frequent and intense in rich and poor countries alike, not only devastating lives, but also infrastructure, institutions, and budgets - an unholy brew which can create dangerous security vacuums. Ban Ki-moon vacuums weather country I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer. Dodie Smith spring weather morning Extreme cold when it first arrives seems to generate cheerfulness and sociability. For a few hours all life's dubious problems are dropped in favor of the clear and congenial task of keeping alive. E. B. White dubious tasks weather I have discovered that the world over, unusual weather prevails at all times of the year. Edgar Rice Burroughs weather world years See if you can catch yourself complaining in either speech or thought, about a situation you find yourself in, what other people do or say, your surroundings, your life situation, even the weather. To complain is always nonacceptance of what is. It invariably carries an unconscious negative charge. When you complain, you make yourself a victim. Leave the situation or accept it. All else is madness. Eckhart Tolle spiritual weather people Quotes with NUMBERS Category The calamities of tragedy do not simply happen, nor are they sent; they proceed mainly from actions, and those the actions of men.We see a number of human beings placed in certain circumstances; and we see, arising from the co-operation of their characters in these circumstances, certain actions. These actions beget others, and these others beget others again, until this series of inter-connected deeds leads by an apparently inevitable sequence to a catastrophe. A. C. Bradley numbers character men 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 What is good is what it's going to lead to, like the song "Jai Ho." If good numbers are going to come in the future, it bodes well for a lot of things. But then, who's going to maintain that. That's the question. So far they could never lead to an Indian song, like a normal film song in this that they can relate to. A. R. Rahman normal numbers song A surprising number of people - including many students of literature - will tell you they haven't really lived in a book since they were children. A. S. Byatt numbers book children To be quite honest, numbers don't tell you everything because audience reactions differ. Some of the biggest films at the box office are not necessarily films that everyone has loved, they just opened to a good response. Aamir Khan honest office numbers To make our position clearer, we may formulate it in another way. Let us call a proposition which records an actual or possible observation an experiential proposition. Then we may say that it is the mark of a genuine factual proposition, not that it should be equivalent to an experiential proposition, or any finite number of experiential propositions, but simply that some experiential propositions can be deduced from it in conjunction with certain other premises without being deducible from those other premises alone. A.J. Ayer finite-number may numbers Quotes with CONVERSATION Category When scientific conversations cease, then dogma rather than knowledge begins to rule the day. Jaak Panksepp cease dogma conversation God, just shoot me the day I start making music you can just put on in the car and have a conversation over it. Jack Antonoff over-it car conversation What was the point of even having a conversation when words couldn't be trusted? James Dashner trusted conversation The newspaper is a lecture. The Web is a conversation. James Lileks lectures newspapers conversation My dad and I get into it all the time. He loves to discuss politics much more than I do and we have pretty heated conversations. James Mercer my-dad dad conversation There is no such thing as a worthless conversation, provided you know what to listen for. And questions are the breath of life for a conversation. James N. Miller listening conversation talking Quotes with LITTLES Category When you're on a boat, it is this tiny little island where you have to be completely self-sufficient. J. C. Chandor self islands littles We wish we were Obi-Wan Kenobi, and for the most part we are, but there's a little Darth Vader in all of us. J. Christopher Stevens obi-wan-kenobi wish littles I like to call the ethos I grew up with 'Oklahoma values.' But you'd be just as accurate if you said 'American values.' Except for our lack of a seacoast, Oklahoma has a little bit of just about everything that's American. J. C. Watts ethos oklahoma littles We know but little of true Christianity, if we don't feel a deep concern about the souls of unconverted people. J. C. Ryle soul littles people I suppose there is hardly any one in the civilized world - particularly of those who do just a little more every day than they really have strength to perform - who has not at some time regarded bed as a refuge. J. E. Buckrose bed littles world You got to start by doing little things if your quest is to take over the world. J. B. Smoove quests littles world Quotes with I LIKE YOU Category I miss you, Eleanor. I want to be with you all the time. You’re the smartest girl I’ve ever met, and the funniest, and everything you do surprises me. And I wish I could say that those are the reasons I like you, because that would make me sound like a really evolved human being …‘But I think it’s got as much to do with your hair being red and your hands being soft … and the fact that you smell like homemade birthday cake Rainbow Rowell girl i-like-you thinking In 2004 Professor Stephen Farnsworth, when I report saying that I got about five minutes on all the networks after Labor Day to election day: only five minutes even though I, like you, were representing majoritarian issues. Ralph Nader issues labor-day i-like-you Why is it," he said, one time, at the subway entrance, "I feel I've known you so many years?" "Because I like you," she said, "and I don't want anything from you. Ray Bradbury i-like-you relationship years All the best, Sydney P.S. "The Red Hurricane" is what I named the car. P.P.S. Just because I like you, it doesn't mean I still don't think you're an evil creature of the night. You are. Richelle Mead i-like-you night mean When you're DJing, there are songs I love to play, but I know people are going to walk off. It doesn't matter what I like. You have to be able to play the popular song and slip in one of yours, in such a way that they don't notice it. You've got them in such a roll that you get them back into what they think they like. Russell Peters i-like-you song thinking People say that about me, that I apparently buy houses near every boy I like — that’s a thing that I apparently do. If I like you I will apparently buy up the real-estate market just to freak you out so you leave me. Taylor Swift real i-like-you boys Quotes with SUPPOSING THAT Category Now supposing I had the part of a young woman to give out, one that wanted some excellent acting. If I were to go to the stage for my actress I would have to take a matured woman, one who would act splendidly, but who would look too old for the requirements. D. W. Griffith acting supposing-that giving There is no ground for supposing that matter and energy existed before [the Big Bang] and were suddenly galvanized into action. For what could distinguish that moment from all other moments in eternity? It is simpler to postulate creation ex nihilo-Divine will constituting Nature from nothingness. E. T. Whittaker bangs atheism supposing-that It seems to me immensely unlikely that mind is a mere by-product of matter. For if my mental processes are determined wholly by the motions of atoms in my brain I have no reason to suppose that my beliefs are true. They may be sound chemically, but that does not make them sound logically. And hence I have no reason for supposing my brain to be composed of atoms. John B. S. Haldane mind brain supposing-that If I am right in supposing it to be comparatively easy to make capital-goods so abundant that the marginal efficiency of capital is zero, this may be the most sensible way of gradually getting rid of many of the objectionable features of capitalism. John Maynard Keynes zero may supposing-that I have always a sacred veneration for anyone I observe to be a little out of repair in his person, as supposing him either a poet or a philosopher. Jonathan Swift sacred supposing-that littles The scientific method of examining facts is not peculiar to one class of phenomena and to one class of workers; it is applicable to social as well as to physical problems, and we must carefully guard ourselves against supposing that the scientific frame of mind is a peculiarity of the professional scientist. Karl Pearson class supposing-that science Quotes with TREE Category I was telling stories before I could write. I like to tell stories, and I like to talk to things. If you]ve read fairy tales, you know that everything can talk,from trees to chairs to tables to brooms. So I grew up thinking that, and I turned it into stories. J. California Cooper writing tree thinking Even monkeys fall out of trees. J. F. Lawton monkeys tree fall A great book is a homing device For navigating paradise. A good book somehow makes you care About the comfort of a chair. A bad book owes to many trees A forest of apologies. J. Patrick Lewis apology tree book You can't pick cherries with your back to the tree. J. P. Morgan focus tree inspirational Then something Tookish woke up inside him, and he wished to go and see the great mountains, and hear the pine-trees and the waterfalls, and explore the caves, and wear a sword instead of a walking-stick. J. R. R. Tolkien walking-sticks tree travel While I was walking I passed these two guys that were unloading this big Christmas tree off a truck. One guy, kept saying to the other guy, 'Hold the sonunvabitch up! Hold it up, for Chrissake!' It certainly was a gorgeous way to talk about a Christmas tree. J. D. Salinger guy tree two Quotes with COMFORTING Category That all of God’s men are immortal until God is through with them is a wonderful comforting thought for today. And when He is through with you, He will remove you from the earth. J. Vernon McGee earth comforting men Blind belief can be comforting, but it can easily cripple reason and productivity, and stop intellectual progress. James Randi blind-belief intellectual comforting I typically don't adopt the ascetic approach. In part, that's because I do use the Net for research even as I'm writing (to check facts, or so on). But I think it's also because I find the possibility of distraction comforting. James Surowiecki writing comforting thinking There's something about this place, about Madison and Wisconsin and the Midwest, that's really comforting, ... Malcolm in the Middle. Jane Kaczmarek midwest wisconsin comforting Another thing I learned is that novels, even those from apparently distant times and places, remain current and enlightening, and also comforting. Jane Smiley enlightening currents comforting It is one of the few elements in the process that a director really, really can't control: an actor's performance. If you have a director that understands that, it's comforting to an actor. You're starting the relationship more as a collaborator, rather than as an employee or some kind of a soldier trying to execute something you don't organically feel. Jason Bateman soldier comforting trying Quotes with ROBINS Category Robin Williams learned technique. He has the technique of being funny. Paul Mooney being-funny technique robins I used to write my own versions of famous tales, such as William Tell or Robin Hood, and illustrate them myself, too. When I entered my teens, I got more into horror and science fiction and wrote a lot of short stories. A literary education complicated things and for many years I wrote nothing but poetry. Then I got back to story-telling. Peter Robinson writing robins years The fairy tale is in a perpetual state of becoming and alteration. To keep to one version or one translation alone is to put robin redbreast in a cage. Philip Pullman cages becoming robins Maid Marion, who said to Robin Hood, I will not live in a house with a Little John. Never got a dinner! Red Buttons maids house robins Everyone sniggered because I was going to do a sandal and toga movie. But I knew exactly how to do it and I know how to make Robin Hood. Ridley Scott togas robin-hood robins In spring more mortal singers than belong Robert Frost spring robins song Quotes with DOORS Category The joy of all mysteries is the certainty which comes from their contemplation, that there are many doors yet for the soul to open on her upward and inward way. A. C. Benson soul doors joy I love writing. I'm not particularly comfortable in the actual world - I'm much more comfortable on the page. So if I could have a life where I could just slip the pages under the door and somebody would slip me a meal back, then that would be perfect for me. Aaron Sorkin perfect writing doors There's no school that you can go to and learn how to be a "Daily Show" correspondent and how to interview people and, you know, essentially leave your soul outside the door and go in there and kind of, you know, destroy people's lives sometimes. Aasif Mandvi doors people school What are you doing?" "I'm going to enjoy a long overdue make-out session with my girl. That's what I'm doing." I explained, stepping into the room and closing the door behind me with one shove of my foot. Abbi Glines girl feet doors When one door opens, so does another one. A.C.H. Smith spiritual doe doors Majorities are of two sorts: (1) communal majority and (2) political majority. A political majority is changeable in its class composition. A political majority grows. A communal majority is born. The admission to a political majority is open. The door to a communal majority is closed. The politics of political majority are free to all to make and unmake. The politics of communal majority are made by its own members born in it. B. R. Ambedkar communication class doors Quotes with LOWS Category I'm a small filmmaker, making my small, low-budget movies, but I'm super lucky to know that everybody reacts differently to my movies. That's interesting. Quentin Dupieux lucky lows interesting The lowest common denominator of the universe is both low and common. R. A. Lafferty lowest common lows Great point made in son's college orientation re sex/safety/respect/etc: 'Consent is really too low a bar. Hold out for enthusiasm.' Rachel Vail bars enthusiasm lows When the divine vision is attained, all appear equal; and there remains no distinction of good and bad, or of high and low. Ramakrishna vision divine lows It seems to be a common denominator with a lot of comics, this low self-esteem thing. Ray Romano self-esteem common lows When duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can. Ralph Waldo Emerson youth military lows Quotes with RUNNING Category I don't worry about great visuals that they showed that weren't actually running on real hardware. It doesn't matter. Gamers don't make their purchase decisions based on movies that were shown in May for products that come out in March. J Allard real worry running If you are running anyway, you might as well be chasing your dreams. J. B. Bernstein dream running might If golfers can run around and crow when they make a birdie, I think it would be just as proper to lie down on the green and cry when you make a bogey. J. C. Snead golf running lying Sold my soul to Satan. I've been dancing with the devil. So when you get to hell you can say you know me. I'm easily attracted by the dark side. Devil keep following. For that fortune, some sold their soul to Satan. Was on track for the first two years, then i let the Devil steer. Now i got to mask my tears, but allow me to re-introduce myself, my name is Cole: Born sinner, opposite of a winner. But the Devil run the T.V. so the demons in him, I'm in trouble did a deal with the Devil but now I'm pleading with him like give me my soul. I ain't ever letting go but the devil don't play fair. J. Cole dark letting-go running We have to stop meeting like this." And that was the truest thing ever spoke. I needed to stop staring at his bicep... and chest... and tattoo. Never thought the sun could be so... sexy. Wow. This was awkward. "You running over me, me almost running over you?" Cam elaborated. "It's like we're a catastrophe waiting to happen. J. Lynn sexy tattoo running Belief may be no more, in the end, than a source of energy, like a battery which one clips into an idea to make it run. J. M. Coetzee energy running ideas Quotes with RIVERS Category The deepest rivers flow with the least sound. Quintus Curtius Rufus sound latin rivers Follow your heart, minute by minute and day by day. Let the course of the river run as it will, instead of tying yourself up in fears that you may never realize" Wulfgar R. A. Salvatore heart rivers running I've travelled all around the world to see the rivers and the mountains, and I've spent a lot of money. I have gone to great lengths, I have seen everything, but I forgot to see just outside my house a dewdrop on a little blade of grass, a dewdrop which reflects in its convexity the whole universe around you. Rabindranath Tagore house rivers past Conservation is a cause that has no end. There is no point at which we will say our work is finished. Rachel Carson environmental causes rivers You're such a big BABY. So cry me a river, build yourself a bridge, and GET OVER IT Rachel Renée Russell bridges rivers baby Mother Nature is always speaking. She speaks in a language understood within the peaceful mind of the sincere observer. Leopards, cobras, monkeys, rivers and trees; they all served as my teachers when I lived as a wanderer in the Himalayan foothills. Radhanath Swami mother rivers teacher Quotes with TOO LATE Category Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it. Quintilian grows procrastination too-late This is the problem of all great revelations: their significance so often exceeds the frame of our comprehension. We understand only after, always after. Not simply when it is too late, but precisely because it is too late. R. Scott Bakker revelations problem too-late God is never too late, nor too early, but just on time. R. T. Kendall never-too-late late too-late It is too late to start For destinations not of the heart . I must stay here with my hurt. R. S. Thomas hurt heart too-late Why should I be sad? Everyone has to die. If you have a body, it's too late to cry. It's only funerals I can't stand. Rachel Klein funeral body too-late It's never too late to get a new design, and if you wanna compete you gotta visualize. Ray Davies design too-late philosophy Quotes with THINKING OF YOU Category I like Dr. Daniel Amen's 18/40/60 Rule: When you're 18, you worry about what everybody is thinking of you; when you're 40, you don't give a darn what anybody thinks of you; when you're 60, you realize nobody's been thinking about you at all. Jack Canfield thinking-about-you thinking-of-you giving Being a senior in high school means you're not only getting closer to adulthood, but also ready to start thinking about your dreams and aspirations, whether that's applying for college, joining the military, or seeing the world. It's never too early to start thinking of your future, so use these high school senior year quotes about following dreams to inspire yourself and those around. Dream as if you'll live forever, live as if you'll die today. James Dean senior dream thinking-of-you We all have our moments of being fed up ... but give me your hand and I'll hold it. If you are being bullied I am thinking of you. You are not alone and it will get better. Don't let them win. It's okay not to be okay. Jessie J winning thinking-of-you hands Sacrifice doesn't really exist on a national level anymore and that's a pretty new thing - most people aren't engaged nationally in some form of service and that changes the way you think about people in your country; you kind of think of them at a distance. And so there's that shift away from some sort of sacrifice - thinking of yourself as the most important thing in the world versus thinking of yourself as some sort of a whole. Joe Meno distance thinking-of-you country I still find each day too short. John Burroughs short-life thinking-of-you retirement I think being self-referential is really narcissistic. Who's to say anybody's even thinking of you that much? But some of these movies that I've done, people still recite lines to me, even 20 years later. John Cusack self thinking-of-you years Quotes with TIME Category There be delights that will fetch the day about from sun to sun and rock the tedious year as in a delightful dream ... For a garden is Arcady brought home. It is man's bit of gaudy make-believe - his well-disguised fiction of an unvexed Paradise ... a world where gayety knows no eclipse and winter and rough weather are held at bay. J. D. Sedding dream time believe The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is cinematizing the events of the canvas, translating a posture or ceremony into dynamic terms. The greatest movie of the 20th century is the Mona Lisa, just as the greatest novel is Gray's Anatomy. J. G. Ballard greatest-movie events time When the time is right, you just got to do it. J. R. Simplot time-management procrastination time For four - fifths of our history, our planet was populated by pondscum. J. William Schopf historical time history We are all burning in time, but each is consumed Jack Gilbert burning speed time Time keeps no measure when true friends are parted, No record day by day; the sands move not for those who, loyal-hearted, friendship's firm laws obey. Jack Nicholson loyalty time friendship Quotes with OPPORTUNITY Category There are two ways of getting out of a trial. One is simply to try to get rid of the trial, and be thankful when it is over. The other is to recognize the trial as a challenge from God to claim a larger blessing than we have ever had, and to hail it with delight as an opportunity of obtaining a larger measure of divine grace. A. B. Simpson blessing opportunity two Out of many millions of wandering living entities, one who is very fortunate gets an opportunity to associate with a bonafide spiritual master by the grace of Krishna. By the mercy of both Krishna and the spiritual masters, such a person receives the seed of the creeper of devotional service. A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada grace spiritual opportunity I met with Martha and Sharon to see if there are any opportunities in syndication. My vision says her customers and fans are still loyal to her. I don't think the Martha Stewart brand loyalty has changed. A. J. Burnett loyalty opportunity thinking More than anything, I’m excited to have the artistic freedom and opportunity to make a sophomore record. Everybody dreads the sophomore slump, whereas I am embracing it and can’t wait to either go down in flames, or take it to another level. It’s not going to be in the middle – it’ll be one way or the other. That’s how it has to be. Aaron Bruno flames waiting opportunity Opportunity lives at the intersection of what people need tomorrow and can be just barely built today. Aaron Levie opportunity people needs I think, ultimately, the problem with something like this is that you actually have so many more opportunities to say something than you actually have things worth saying. And then, as an artist who doesn't want to do bad work, gosh, how do you fill up all that space when you really don't have anything actually worthwhile to say? And that's what makes the job tough, because the fans get mad - "That's not funny," or "You've been sucking for several months now." And you go, "It's not my fault! I'm trying." Aaron McGruder artist opportunity thinking Quotes with WINGS Category What man-made machine will ever achieve the complete perfection of even the goose's wing? Abbas ibn Firnas perfection wings men Some are satisfied to stand politely before the portals of Fortune and to await her bidding; better those who push forward, who employ their enterprise, who on the wings of their worth and valor seek to embrace luck, and to effectively gain her favor. Baltasar Gracian bidding luck wings What I want to try to do is unify the two wings of the Democratic Party. What's considered the more progressive wing of the Democratic Party - the more centrist wing of the party. I think we can craft an approach that is more American, pro-worker, pro-business, pro-growth. Barack Obama party wings thinking Only a free West can help the prisoners of today's left- and right-wing dictatorships. Barbara Amiel west wings today The American people as a whole are really pretty moderate. They're not, as a whole, conservative or liberal. The right wing is marching the Republican Party off a cliff. Barbara Boxer party wings people ...prodigal summer, the season of extravagant procreation. It could wear out everything in its path with its passionate excesses, but nothing alive with wings or a heart or a seed curled into itself in the ground could resist welcoming it back when it came. Barbara Kingsolver summer heart wings «4567891011121314»