James Martineau Quotes
The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
Quotes to Explore
-
I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
-
I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
-
Once I finished 'Sicario,' I knew I wanted to follow it up with 'Hell or High Water.'
-
I can't take anything seriously.
-
You have to work hard for what you want to achieve and you have to set goals and dreams and really go for them.
-
There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
-
No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.
-
I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
-
What I found particularly fascinating and satisfying about the Hindu tradition was its spirit of inclusiveness. In Sanatan Dharma, or what is commonly called Hinduism, I discovered the basic truths of all religions in a way that the oneness of God and religion is comprehensively understood.
-
Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
-
Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
-
Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
-
What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
-
I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
-
The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
-
Let's face it, Obama is not a hugely popular political figure in the state of Texas.
-
My parents sent me to a dance class, so it was a road chosen by them, not me. But I enjoyed it so much I knew I would become a performer.
-
I love to turn an idea that is in my head into reality.
-
In 2016, Trump, with his outsized ego, his anti-immigrant and anti-trade positions, coupled with barely disguised racism and deep-seated sexism and a willingness to lie whenever it suited him, was a near perfect fit.
-
God's commandments are not given to limit or punish us.
-
True love, it's like an illness. I never understood it before. In books and plays. Poems. I never understood what drove otherwise intelligent, right-thinking people to do such extravagant, irrational things. Now I do. It's an illness. You can catch it when you least expect. There's no known cure. And sometimes, in its most extreme, it's fatal.
-
My brother David was a great athlete and I knew there was no way I could live up to that.
-
The incarnation is true, not of Christ exclusively, but of Man universally, and God everlastingly.
