Plotinus Quotes

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

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• As a director on 'The Office,' there's a tremendous weight that comes with directing features. I was being asked to direct a show that had already won an Emmy for Best Comedy. Steve Carell and the cast had already won the Screen Actor's Guild Awards.

  

  Harold Ramis
  • Comedy
  • Best
  • Awards

• Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Job
  • Day
  • Player

• After World War II, there were a lot of pension funds in Europe that were fully funded, but they were pressured to hold a lot of government debt. There was a lot of inflation, and the value of all those assets fell. Those pension funds couldn't honor their promises to the people.

  

  Edward C. Prescott
  • People
  • World
  • War

• I'm a very modest person. But I'm also extremely confident. And if you put me in the situation or in the moment, I'm gonna have some swagger, I'm gonna have some cockiness.

  

  Drew Brees

• I've not taken like acting lessons or anything but it doesn't mean I don't need to because I'm sure I do.

  

  Miley Cyrus
  • Taken

• The atonement is a multifaceted event-Jesus is shown providing surety for our debt to God, mediating the enmity between us and God, and offering Himself as a substitute to suffer God's judgment in our place.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Jesus
  • Judgment

• I am thrilled at the prospect of being in Dubai after more than two decades.

  

  Ilie Nastase
  • Decades
  • Thrilled
  • Dubai

• Psychologically, I will not have to seek far if I decide to kill myself, because in my mind and heart I am more ready for this than for the unplanned daily tribulations that mark off the mornings and afternoons.

  

  Andrew Solomon
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Morning

• I have felt an urgency to counsel each of us to seek the higher ground---the refuge and eternal protection of the temple.

  

  Quentin L. Cook

• Every rock is spoon by the Word. Every time I touch a stone, I am touching the Voice of God. Every cell of me is crafted by that artistry. My life is His breath. But we mortals grow numb. We want to feel more. And so we add MSG to our earthly brands of holiness.

  

  N.D. Wilson
  • Life
  • Time
  • God

• Every morning I awake torn between a desire to save the world and an inclination to savor it. This makes it hard to plan the day. But if we forget to savor the world, what possible reason do we have for saving it? In a way, the savoring must come first.

  

  E. B. White
  • World
  • Desire
  • Morning

• Obviously, I don't want to minimize the patriarchal nature of our media, our government and our culture as a whole. But I think it's our refusal as women to own our power that is our biggest problem, both individually and collectively. The linchpin that holds the current system in place is the slumber of women.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Women
  • Power
  • Nature

• Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.

  

  Jack Roy
  • Time
  • Remember
  • Guy

• I rode in a gang. We robbed trains, banks, held people ransom. We killed people we didn't like. Bill Williamson was in that gang. If I don't capture my former brother-in-arms, great harm will befall my family.

  

  John Marston
  • People
  • Family
  • Brother

• This universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any god or man, but it always has been, is, and will be an ever-living fire, kindling itself by regular measures and going out by regular measures.

  

  Heraclitus
  • God
  • Universe
  • Fire

• Most people don't know who Ken Mehlman is. He's the chairman of the Republican Party, obviously, but what he's doing that Howard Dean isn't doing is spending a lot of time on the nuts and bolts of putting the party together.

  

  Susan Estrich
  • People
  • Together
  • Party

• One thing that's important for a performer to understand is the difference between art and entertainment.

  

  Chris Murray
  • Important
  • Art
  • Difference

• A thousand years ago five minutes were Equal to forty ounces of fine sand. Outstare the stars. Infinite foretime and Infinite aftertime: above your head They close like giant wings, and you are dead.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Equal
  • Infinite
  • Sand

• You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

  

  Plotinus
  • Infinite
  • Faculty
  • Apprehend