Jane Alexander Quotes

Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

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• You cease to move into yourself, away from others. You give up your antagonism. You begin to move toward others in love. God moved toward you in gracious, outgoing love, and you move toward others in that same outgoing love.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Up
  • God
  • Love

• If I'm trying to rebound after a bad hole, I just go back to tempo and process and rhythm, and I cling to my routine.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Trying
  • Bad
  • Process

• The time has come to end the suffering and the plight of millions of Palestine refugees in the homeland and the Diaspora, to end their displacement and to realize their rights, some of them forced to take refuge more than once in different places of the world.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Time
  • World
  • Different

• A minimum precaution: keep your anti-malware protections up to date, and install security updates for all your software as soon as they arrive.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Up
  • Security
  • Software

• I'm nearsighted in my right eye, have glaucoma in my left, and the nerves in my hands are on Medicare. Basically, I'm on the wrong end of a short sale.

  

  Gary McCord
  • Eye
  • End
  • Short

• The film business creates a large amount of waste, and I'm not immune to waste in the business.

  

  Ian Somerhalder
  • Business
  • Film
  • Waste

• Perchance the chemist is already damned and the guardian the blackest.

  

  L. Wolfe Gilbert
  • Guardian
  • Chemist
  • Perchance

• Let's treat this country first and foremost.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • First
  • Treat

• I think sometimes when you play those extra shifts, it gets you into the game a little bit more and gets you a little bit more involved.

  

  Patrick Kane
  • Think
  • Game
  • Sometimes

• For people worried about the Great Recession and the uncertainty of what is coming next, the characters of 'Mad Men' are good company.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• I got into filmmaking in order to tell very personal stories, and in this day and age, the opportunity seems all the more precious.

  

  Ira Sachs
  • Age
  • Opportunity
  • Day

• Contrary to the rumours that you've heard, I was not born in a manger. I was actually born on Krypton and sent here by my father, Jor-El, to save the planet Earth.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Father
  • Earth

• Quare non ut intellegere possit sed ne omnino possit non intellegere curandum.

  

  Quintilian

• Il y a toujours quelque chose d’absent qui me tourmente.

  

  Camille Claudel

• The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being-which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs-where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will, that truth shall prevail over error.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Good
  • Truth
  • Society

• There are three levels of self to consider: the proto, the core, and the autobiographical. The first two are shared with many, many other species, and they are really coming out largely of the brain stem and whatever there is of cortex in those species.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Brain

• Whatever is truly alive must die. Look at the flowers; only plastic flowers never die.

  

  Anthony de Mello
  • Die

• It doesn't matter if I am better than Cristiano Ronaldo, all that matters is that Barcelona are better than Madrid.

  

  Lionel Messi

• Empirical description involves enslavement to the object by decreeing passivity on the part of the subject.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Subject
  • Object
  • Description

• We were succeeding. When you looked at specifics, this became a war of attrition. We were winning.

  

  William Westmoreland
  • War
  • Winning
  • Succeed

• 'SNL' is our main priority because that was our first big break.

  

  Akiva Schaffer
  • Priority

• Innovation comes from, one, acknowledging yourself; two, studying and understanding the problem; and three, finding a solution.

  

  Marley Dias
  • Understanding
  • Innovation

• You could conceive spirituality as the study of the immeasurable, of the qualitative. But that's very different from the way we typically use the word. A spiritual person, in the popular conception, is somebody who's kind of aloof from the world, introspective, meditating, communing with non-material beings. That's the spiritual realm, and we elevate it above the material realm. What's more worthy, what's more admirable? Who's the one who has done this hard work on the self, and has done a lot of "practice"? That's the spiritual person.

  

  Charles Eisenstein
  • World
  • Different
  • Done

• Now, I cannot approve anything the council has rejected, but I can reject anything the council has approved.

  

  Jane Alexander