Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
To regard the excesses of the passions as maladies has so salutary an effect that this idea renders all moral sermons useless.
I've always been interested in space and the idea of exploration in that area since I was a child growing up through the '60s.
Some conservatives are traditionalists, and the idea of breaking things up and changing things is concerning to them at times.
I always had the idea that I wanted to perform. I love being the center of attention - and I always love talking about myself.
That to me is what my idea of film acting should be. There shouldn't be any acting. You should just be watching a real person.
Forests were the first temples of the Divinity, and it is in the forests that men have grasped the first idea of architecture.
Traveling did a great deal to me. I found that when I travel and just sit in the corner and watch, a million ideas come to me.
Men of ideas and men of action have much to learn from each other, and the truly great are men of both action and abstraction.
Ideas, like young wine, should be put in storage and taken up again only after they have been allowed to ferment and to ripen.
I think that people get experiences, and out of those experiences come meaning and ideas. It's like watching a rose bush grow.
Do not let yourself be contaminated by others' ideas of what is best for you. Cast aside the shackles of destructive thinking.
A face is like the outside of a house, and most faces, like most houses, give us an idea of what we can expect to find inside.
When we give up our images of self-importance and our ideas of what should be, we can help things become what they need to be.
Is there's always an idea that the party will continue the movement but that movement always dies inside the Democratic Party.
Men are mortal. So are ideas. An idea needs propagation as much as a plant needs watering. Otherwise both will wither and die.
Leaders must be released from the idea that they must be great prayer warriors before they can begin to call others to prayer.
For a long time, I really struggled with the idea of being an actor because I really felt that I should be in the Peace Corps.
When you put off a task, you buy yourself time to engage in divergent thinking rather than foreclosing on one particular idea.
When I'm writing, those ideas are seldom inspired by music itself. I won't often listen to an artist and come up with an idea.
I finally realized that this 'place' that I kept bursting into [on a psychedelic experience] was somebody's idea of a playpen.
The idea of choice is easily debased if one forgets that the aim is to have chosen successfully, not to be endlessly choosing.
I think you have to let go of this idea that you can be precious about everything, and let it be the abstract mess that it is.
The fundamental principle of science, the definition almost, is this: the sole test of the validity of any idea is experiment.
I'd rather believe in reincarnation than hell. The idea of an afterlife is much so more tolerable when returning is an option.
Finally, I asked how you got a boy to like you back. She said, 'Just be yourself,' as though I had any idea who that might be.
Pakistan has to export a lot of uneducated people, many of whom have become infected with the most barbaric reactionary ideas.
Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears.
I've always liked the idea of taking old dramatic ideas and devices and making them feel relevant or contemporary or whatever.
I have no idea what advantages I truly get, but I know people talk to me and give me time of day because they like how I look.
This is the idea that has made me...an anonymous figure in America...If you have children here tonight...they are NOT special.
The fool is disturbed not when they tell him that his ideas are false, but when they suggest that they have gone out of style.
Duty is the grandest of ideas, because it implies the idea of God, of the soul, of liberty, of responsibility, of immortality.
Out of routine comes inspiration. That's the idea, anyway. To grasp what's exceptional, you first have to know what's routine.
The whole world may begin to burn, but the National Socialist State and Idea will emerge from the conflagration like platinum.
When the idea of permaculture came to me, it was like a shift in the brain, and suddenly I couldn't write it down fast enough.
Cameras have really made people question the police. People, especially white people, are saying, 'Oh my God, we had no idea.'
Taoism taught me to focus on the process and not to be attached to preconceived ideas of what I thought the outcome should be.
Each man must learn his own ideal and try to accomplish it: that is a surer way of progress than to take the ideas of another.
People laugh at me because I use big words. But if you have big ideas, you have to use big words to express them, haven't you?
Ideas rather than methods are central to they way I work, although drawing plays a central generative role in everything I do.
What makes me feel good is that after all these years, the ideas that Joe Perry came up with worked and all the kids loved it.
I find it inspiring to actively choose which traditions to celebrate and also come up with new ideas for traditions of my own.
The measure of greatness in a scientific idea is the extent to which it stimulates thought and opens up new lines of research.
My idea is to give hope, because where there is no hope, there is no vision, and where there is no vision, people will perish.
Actually, 'Wayne's World 2' I kind of liked. I think 'Wayne's World 2' does have some creative things in it, some ideas in it.
The link between ideas and action is rarely direct. There is almost always an intermediate step in which the idea is overcome.
The whole dissident idea attracts a lot of crazies. And then all of a sudden, without realizing it, you've become one of them.
I am fascinated by language in daily life: the way it can evoke an emotion, a visual image, a complex idea, or a simple truth.
I can't remember a time when I didn't want to be a reporter. I don't know where I got the idea that it was a romantic calling.
I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.