Quotes 9781 till 9800 of 25137.
-
In that way imagination and intelligence enter into our existence in the part of servants of the primary instincts.
-
In the '70s, everybody was doing drugs, so long as you showed up and did your work, they'd use you until you died.
-
In the 21st century, I think the heroes will be the people who will improve the quality of life, fight poverty and introduce more sustainability.
-
In the 60's there was a look. In the 70's there was a look, and in the 80's. Now, it's a free-for-all.
-
In the absence of sound oversight,responsible businesses are forced to compete against unscrupulous and underhanded businesses, who are unencumbered by any restrictions on activities that might harm the environment, or take advantage of middle-class families, or threaten to bring down the entire financial system.
-
In the absence of willpower the most complete collection of virtues and talents is wholly worthless.
-
In the aftermath of President Obama's re-election, members of both the administration and the media trumpeted that Obama had received his long-sought mandate. Obamacare, Americans were told, was the law of the land. It could not be changed; it could not be stopped.
-
In the American metaphysic, reality is always material reality, hard, resistant, unformed, impenetrable, and unpleasant.
-
In the Andes and the Alps, I have seen melting glaciers. At both of the Earth's Poles, I have seen open sea where ice once dominated the horizon.
-
In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.
-
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
-
In the attempt to defeat death man has been inevitably obliged to defeat life, for the two are inextricably related. Life moves on to death, and to deny one is to deny the other.
-
In the back of your mind, when you say you want to write music for the movies, you're saying that you want a big house, a big car and a boat. If you just wanted to write music, you could live in Kansas and do it.
-
In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
-
In the beginning there was nothing. God said, 'Let there be light!' And there was light. There was still nothing, but you could see it a whole lot better.
-
In the beginning was nature. The background from which and against our ideas of God were formed, nature remains the supreme moral problem. We cannot hope to understand sex and gender until we clarify our attitude toward nature. Sex is a subset to nature. Sex is the natural in man.
Source: Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson (1990) Opening sentence, p. 1 -
In the beginning was the Word,' and you must not be tempted with a script just because you have a great part. You want a great role to play, but the whole - the whole - must be good. It'll never succeed if it's just the role you like.
-
In the beginning, though, I have to admit that I did have a chip on my shoulder. I did want to prove everyone wrong. But after I went through the process and came out the other side, it wasn't about anyone else.
-
In the best possible scenario, whenever you get notes from people, they're good notes, and they see things that you wouldn't have seen otherwise, and they make you a better writer.
-
In the big picture, architecture is the art and science of making sure that our cities and buildings fit with the way we want to live our lives.
All destroyer—and famous quotes and sayings you will always find on greatest-quotations.com (page 490)
