Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes
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My preference is that, that day when someone sticks a tripod in front of you with a camera on the top, it is not day one.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
A mom has to be ready for anything.
Lara Spencer -
Asia is the continent rhythm forgot. At best Asian music is off-brand American pop, like Sonny Bono in a karaoke bar. At worst Asian music sounds as if a truck full of wind chimes collided with a stack of empty oil drums during a birdcall contest.
P. J. O'Rourke -
Domesticity is the enemy of art. I don't know if that's true. You can write good happy songs. So, I don't think it's necessarily happiness. But I think self-satisfaction is maybe the enemy. It's kind of better to think, "Tomorrow night I'm gonna sing it better." There is this forward effort. It feels to me right, it feels human.
Paul McCartney Paul McCartney and Wings -
The degree of panic activity in my life is equal to the degree of my lack of personal spiritual experience.
Oswald Chambers -
Thus, our national circulating medium is now at the mercy of loan transactions of banks, which lend, not money, but promises to supply money they do not possess
Irving Fisher
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People don't settle for people. They resolve to be with them. It takes faith. You draw a circle in the sand and agree to stand in it and believe in it.
Zadie Smith -
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted to the environment in which it lives, interlocked with other species to form ecosystems upon which our own lives depend in ways we have not begun even to imagine.
E. O. Wilson -
He was chugging brown pop from a can Jack had handed him while he stuffed nacho cheese Doritos in his face. I was glad to see he looked lots better, almost completely like himself, which proves Doritos and brown pop really are health foods.
P. C. Cast -
We're dealing with such enormous problems today that we have no other choice but to work together. If Iraq fails, if a religious civil war breaks out and the neighboring states are drawn into this conflict, if the Kurds declare independence and al-Qaida takes over an entire province - that's when the consequences will be dramatic.
Zalmay Khalilzad -
The happier and more stress-free you are, the more people will want to be around you and the more your friends will respect you.
Gabrielle Bernstein -
Recently I have noticed football banners representing other clubs, such as Derby and Leeds, appearing.
Peter Hall
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Clothes and manners do not make the man; but when he is made, they greatly improve his appearance.
Henry Ward Beecher -
I am not a fashion victim. Fashion is my victim.
Karl Lagerfeld -
But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease.
William Cowper -
He who knoweth the reader, doeth nothing more for the reader. Another century of readers - and spirit itself will stink.
Friedrich Nietzsche -
I made a lot of friends over the years and I would always look at what they were eating. All of them were skinny. I would think that I would like to eat like that.
Suzanne Somers -
A stunning first impression was not the same thing as love at first sight. But surely it was an invitation to consider the matter.
Lois McMaster
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Loving own country is to love peace.
Aftab Alam -
When I look at my family, that's all life means, right there.
Kam Williams -
How can I make difference so that I may bring peace to this world that I love and cherish so much? A name flickers instantly in my mind.
Mahatma Gandhi -
It is the essence of certainty to be established only with reservations.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty