Jacques Maritain Quotes

Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

Jacques Maritain

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• I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • Devil
  • Afraid

• We just here to do our job.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Job
  • Just
  • Here

• I read the Scriptures at the American Cathedral on Christmas and Easter; that's it. It's a task I love.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Love
  • American
  • Christmas

• I would love to get great performances from actors as a director, because that's what I'm always looking for, a director that's going to help me go places I've never been before.

  

  Aaron Eckhart
  • Help
  • Actors
  • Director

• I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.

  

  Yves Saint Laurent
  • Style
  • Innovation
  • Perfection

• Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Society
  • Everything
  • Grow

• It makes me proud, and it makes me scared. More than anything, I want to be an actor and I want to keep working, and I think there's a danger in being perceived as a poster boy for something.

  

  Randy Harrison
  • Proud
  • Actor
  • Working

• I have always been grateful to Colonel Longley. He proved to me that when people in authority take a stand, good can come out of it.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • People
  • Good
  • Grateful

• How you manage change can make all the difference.

  

  Irene Rosenfeld
  • You
  • Change
  • Difference

• I find Cambridge an asylum, in every sense of the word.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Find
  • Word
  • Cambridge

• I have great editors, and I always have. Somehow, great editors ask the right questions or pose things to you that get you to write better. It's a dance between you, your characters, and your editor.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Great
  • Dance
  • Better

• Western women have been controlled by ideals and stereotypes as much as by material constraints.

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Women
  • Ideals
  • Stereotypes

• When you work with a great director, you realise you are far from being a director.

  

  Barkhad Abdi
  • Work
  • Great
  • You

• We don't care if you understand us.

  

  Watkin Tudor Jones
  • You
  • Care
  • Understand

• You actually can be passionate about things like making rational decisions based on a thorough airing of the facts, a reasonable and informed debate, a respect for the Constitution that includes, um, knowing about it.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Respect
  • Decisions
  • Debate

• Damned meddlers. It’s hard to know when their curiosity is official and when it’s just curiosity.

  

  Jack Vance
  • Curiosity

• Tired, ashamed, and mortified, I begged to sit down till we returned home, which I did soon after. Lord Orville did me the honour to hand me to the coach, talking all the way of the honour I had done him! O these fashionable people!

  

  Frances Burney
  • People
  • Done
  • Home

• Battle is the soldier's vital breath! Peace turns him into a stooping asthmatic. War makes him a whole man again, and gives him the heart, strength, and vigor of a hero.

  

  Charles Studd
  • Heart
  • War
  • Peace

• Zuniga Hides the Evidence ... Like the craven coward he is, Markos Zuniga, rising young star of the Democrats, has now removed the page at Daily Kos where he wrote "Screw them" about the four Americans torn apart and hung from a bridge in Fallujah.

  

  Charles Foster Johnson
  • Evidence
  • Coward
  • Democrat

• Of course, I love you,' the flower said to him. 'If you were not aware of it, it was my fault.

  

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Flower
  • Fault
  • I Love You

• A man with a grain of faith in God never loses hope, because he ever believes in the ultimate triumph of Truth.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Hope
  • Faith In God
  • Triumph Of Truth

• Even though there's these songs and whoever the hell put it in the internet, if there's any good riffs in them, we raped the songs and put in the new ones.

  

  Kerry King Slayer
  • Internet
  • Songs
  • Riffs

• At times, it could be a bit difficult to understand everything that's being said when just listening, but I wanted the lyrics to be the first impression.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Want
  • Listening
  • Lyrics

• Things are opaque to us, and we are opaque to ourselves.

  

  Jacques Maritain