Jessamyn West Quotes

Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

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• I went to South Africa on safari and came eye to eye with a beautiful leopard. We were so close; I was staring at him for a long time and I felt a recognition with my own nature.

  

  Bai Ling
  • Time
  • Long
  • Nature

• Nature says women are human beings, men have made religions to deny it. Nature says women are human beings, men cry out no!

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Nature

• Mountains are earth's undecaying monuments.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Mountains

• One cannot violate the promptings of one's nature without having that nature recoil upon itself.

  

  Jack London
  • Nature
  • Without
  • Cannot

• Usually when you're working is when people want you to work. They don't want you as much when you're not working. That's the frustrating nature of our business.

  

  Faith Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• The fairest thing in nature, a flower, still has its roots in earth and manure.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Nature
  • Earth
  • Flower

• The true treasure lies within. It is the underlying theme of the songs we sing, the shows we watch and the books we read. It is woven into the Psalms of the Bible, the ballads of the Beatles and practically every Bollywood film ever made. What is that treasure? Love. Love is the nature of the Divine.

  

  Radhanath Swami
  • Love
  • True
  • Nature

• He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Nature
  • Knowledge

• I worked with Ismail Merchant on 'The Mystic Masseur,' I did 'Sakina's Restaurant,' I've done plays, I've been on Broadway, I've done movies, I've done TV... but nothing has had the pop culture penetrative impact as 'The Daily Show' has. It's the nature of the beast.

  

  Aasif Mandvi
  • Done
  • Nature
  • Culture

• Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.

  

  Hans Christian Andersen
  • Nature
  • Freedom
  • Flower

• The generous abundance of her passion, without guile or trickery, was like a white flame which penetrated and found response in depths of his own sensuous nature that had never yet been reached.

  

  Kate Chopin
  • Nature
  • Passion
  • Flame

• Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• 'Jaws' was the ultimate man vs. nature movie, and it was a movie that was basically three people against the elements, so that was the biggest influence on 'Frozen.'

  

  Adam Green
  • People
  • Movie
  • Nature

• I had to pick myself up and get on with it, do it all over again, only even better this time.

  

  Sam Walton
  • Up
  • Time
  • Myself

• In 'Power Play', Finder uses the thriller structure to make pointed observations about gender in the workplace, the corporate caste system, and the true nature of risk in the global business environment.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Business
  • Power
  • True

• Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Nature
  • Wisdom
  • Patience

• You have to learn how to harness technology so you can use it for positive stuff without being disconnected from nature.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Nature
  • Technology
  • Positive

• The greatest error of a man is to think that he is weak by nature, evil by nature. Every man is divine and strong in his real nature. What are weak and evil are his habits, his desires and thoughts, but not himself.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Real
  • Nature
  • Man

• Human nature is governed by general self-interest and affected by genetic predisposition, which implies that there are likely to be limits to our moral sensitivities.

  

  Nayef Al-Rodhan
  • Nature
  • Moral

• It is human nature to want to exchange ideas, and I believe that, at bottom, every artist wants no more than to tell the world what he has to say.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • World
  • Believe
  • Nature

• My music is more than me writing a flashy soul song. They're heartfelt songs about my family and true stories. I have also songs that aren't personal, but just painting a picture. I don't like being put under labels, but my music is going to continue to stay classic and timeless forever.

  

  Leon Bridges
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Family

• If you live only in one culture for the first 20 years of your life, you become conditioned without knowing it.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Life
  • Live
  • Culture

• Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task.

  

  D. T. Suzuki
  • Knowledge
  • Understanding
  • Author

• Memory is a magnet. It will pull to it and hold only material nature has designed it to attract.

  

  Jessamyn West
  • Nature