Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes

The body is our general medium for having a world.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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• We want to make sure that we incentivize the health care system to be designed to provide you the best quality health care possible.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Health
  • Best
  • Quality

• We can't go to courts in China, so we have to find alternate ways, like working with brands to try and create a level playing field by identifying the most obvious polluters.

  

  Ma Jun
  • Find
  • Try
  • China

• I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.

  

  Natalia Tena
  • Time
  • Place
  • Obsessed

• You see what happens in college and high school games today - a three-point shot or a dunk. I think that's the reason that you see a lot of that in the pros today.

  

  Oscar Robertson
  • School
  • High
  • Today

• I don't think you'll ever be happy about anything unless you've done it.

  

  Gary Barlow Take That
  • Done
  • Happy
  • Think

• It's easier to rip somebody to shreds while you're making them laugh.

  

  Wanda Sykes
  • You
  • Laugh
  • Easier

• I connect with people on a daily basis.

  

  Zac Efron
  • People
  • Daily
  • Connect

• If Republicans want to be seen as more compassionate, they should continue to stand proudly for the sanctify of life and marriage. And they should do so without apologizing.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Life
  • Marriage
  • Stand

• The people who used to hold the purse strings were a select group of white, middle-aged men, but that's changing, and the more it continues to change, the more we'll see inclusive stories get told.

  

  Caitriona Balfe
  • People
  • Men
  • Change

• We have the sense that medical students come to medicine with a great capacity to understand the suffering of patients. And then by the end of the third year they completely lose that ability, partly because we teach them the specialized language of medicine.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • Great
  • Suffering
  • End

• When I was 15, I worked as a bag boy in a grocery store. I also needed to walk old ladies to their car and put their bags in the car, and they would give me two dollars. I felt like the richest man in the world.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • World
  • Man
  • Car

• Faith is never identical with piety.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Faith
  • Never
  • Piety

• There is no way I'd have wanted to live in the Twenties. It was really crap for women.

  

  Laura Carmichael
  • Live
  • Women
  • Way

• True love's the gift which God has givenTo man alone beneath the heaven:It is not fantasy's hot fire,Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;It liveth not in fierce desire,With dead desire it doth not die;It is the secret sympathy,The silver link, the silken tie,Which heart to heart, and mind to mindIn body and in soul can bind.

  

  Walter Scott
  • God
  • Mind
  • Heart

• As the eye naturally seeks the light and vision, and our body naturally desires food and drink, so our mind is possessed with a becoming and natural desire to become acquainted with the truth of God and the causes of things.

  

  Origen
  • God
  • Mind
  • Truth

• Waitin' on the pizzle, the dizzle and the shizzle G's to the bizzack, now ladies here we gizzo.

  

  Snoop Dogg

• They tell us it will be about 'emotions' and 'friendship,' that it will be a night of joy. Who are they kidding?

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • Night
  • Joy
  • Friendship

• My first film was a movie shot in 1974. I was 18 on that movie set. It was called 'Big Bad Mama.' I turned 19 on the next movie I worked on, which was a black 'Blazing Saddles.' I worked in the art department. It was called 'Darktown Strutters.'

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Movie

• Putting your well-being first - like putting your oxygen mask on before you help the person next to you - that really benefits all your relationships.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Help
  • Next
  • Benefits

• Life is a very emotional experience.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Emotional

• With 'New Rose Hotel,' I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that's all I was going to get.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • New
  • Rose
  • Hotel

• We have sectors of the economy, aerospace is a good example, where Britain's probably the second country in the world, the automobile sector, where we've done extraordinarily well, an enormous amount of investment over the last couple of years, life sciences is another.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• I was single for a long time and felt very much alone in the world, and talk of family values upset me very much at that phase in my life, because I used to think: 'What about people like me?'

  

  Wendy Cope
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• The body is our general medium for having a world.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
  • World
  • Body
  • Medium