Jane Roberts Quotes

The waking consciousness, dear friends, is not the ego. The ego is only that portion of the waking consciousness that deals with physical manipulation.

Jane Roberts

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• In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Talent

• A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Nature
  • Way
  • Egg

• I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.

  

  Ted Levine
  • Real
  • Comedy
  • Challenge

• I know some black actresses who have to wait every 19 films for a role. I can be cast in practically every one as a young white male.

  

  D. B. Sweeney
  • Black
  • Know
  • White

• When I look back at where I came from, at the school I attended... my classmates for the most part haven't had successful paths - many have had a difficult, chaotic path.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • School
  • Path
  • Classmates

• You create your own material to try to get it out there because a lot of people are multi-hyphenates, to use the corporate term. You're creating stuff to be in in order to showcase all your talents. I think the idea of using YouTube and the Internet, you don't have to wait around for a network to buy your show.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • People
  • Think
  • Internet

• Get me well so I can get on television and tell people to stop smoking.

  

  Nat King Cole
  • People
  • Stop
  • Television

• It seems that fighting is a game where everybody is the loser.

  

  Zora Neale Hurston
  • Game
  • Fighting
  • Loser

• The mind is exercised by the variety and multiplicity of the subject matter, while the character is moulded by the contemplation of virtue and vice.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Character
  • Matter

• Even before it opened its retail arm, Beigh was renowned among pashmina cognoscenti for the quality and complexity of the work produced in its workshop, a large, airy, sunlit rectangle of a room directly across from its second-floor shop.

  

  Hanya Yanagihara
  • Work
  • Quality
  • Complexity

• We show our faces to demand human rights for everyone, everywhere.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • Show
  • Demand
  • Human Rights

• Yoghurt cuts sweetness and richness, tempers spice, and makes a dish sing.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Sweetness
  • Richness
  • Spice

• Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Good
  • Great
  • Hope

• Habits change into character.

  

  Ovid
  • Character
  • Change
  • Habits

• I play the father in the scene when Will and Tommy go back to Tommy's old apartment. It was a big mistake. I hope not to be in the next movie I direct.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • Movie
  • Hope
  • Father

• Winter testing is essential but there comes a point where you have had enough of all the rehearsals and the pretend racing. You just want to get down to the real action.

  

  Damon Hill
  • Real
  • Action
  • Winter

• I heard what was said of the universe, heard it and heard it of several thousand years; it is middling well as far as it goes - but is that all?

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Years
  • Said

• It is unfair to label me anti-Islam. I am an atheist and a secular humanist.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Atheist
  • Unfair
  • Humanist

• Dishonesty is like a boomerang. About the time you think all is well, it hits you in the back of the head.

  

  H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
  • Time

• I have come to understand that if we hope to build a better world, we must be guided by the universal human values that emphasize the kinship of the human race - the sanctity of human life and freedom, peace between nations, honesty and truthfulness, regard for the rights of others, and love of one's fellows.

  

  Ephraim Katzir
  • Love
  • Freedom
  • Values

• All my friends who wanted to write had got nowhere trying to write the great European novel. So I deliberately steered clear of that and set out to write something story-led.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Great
  • Trying
  • Friends

• There is nothing magnanimous in bearing misfortunes with fortitude, when the whole world is looking on.... He who, without friends to encourage or even without hope to alleviate his misfortunes, can behave with tranquility and indifference, is truly great.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • World
  • Great
  • Friends

• I had buried my romance in a bed of asphodel.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Romance
  • Bed
  • Buried

• The waking consciousness, dear friends, is not the ego. The ego is only that portion of the waking consciousness that deals with physical manipulation.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Friends
  • Ego
  • Manipulation