Maurice Merleau-Ponty Quotes

Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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• My husband and I click wedding rings sometimes and say, 'By the power of the Castle of Greyskull!'

  

  Tamora Pierce
  • Power
  • Husband
  • Wedding

• Management innovation is going to be the most enduring source of competitive advantage. There will be lots of rewards for firms in the vanguard.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Innovation
  • Management
  • Will

• A prince should be slow to punish, and quick to reward.

  

  Ovid
  • Prince
  • Reward
  • Slow

• Academic institutions in Britain have been infiltrated for years by dangerous theocratic fantasists. I should know: I was one of them.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Know
  • Years
  • Dangerous

• Persuade thyself that imperfection and inconvenience are the natural lot of mortals, and there will be no room for discontent, neither for despair.

  

  Ieyasu Tokugawa
  • Will
  • Despair
  • Imperfection

• When you live in a condo complex with people next door, I don't know how you can be dead for four months without anybody noticing you not coming and going.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • People
  • Live
  • Door

• We have to honor our commitments to today's beneficiaries, but we can't solve the growing deficit and debt problems unless we are smart, courageous, and sensible in planning for future.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Future
  • Today
  • Growing

• Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Real
  • Dream
  • Reality

• People crushed by laws, have no hope but to evade power. If the laws are their enemies, they will be enemies to the law; and those who have most to hope and nothing to lose will always be dangerous.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • People
  • Power
  • Hope

• I don't tend to do much with my lips. My lips are naturally very pink, so if I add any more colour, it looks like I've been smacked in the mouth!

  

  Kate Beckinsale
  • Pink
  • Lips
  • Colour

• I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Think
  • Confidence
  • Speed

• I know I have a hit show on my hands.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Know
  • Hands
  • Show

• How could this great land of plenty produce too few people in the last 30 years?

  

  Zell Miller
  • People
  • Great

• The residence of the Plymouth settlers in the Netherlands, and the later conquest of the Dutch colonies, had brought the Americans into contact with the singularly wise and free institutions of the Dutch.

  

  Albert Bushnell Hart
  • Free
  • Wise

• In 1995, I made a website, and half the web came to see it, and I thought, 'Man, that's it, that's what I want to do.'

  

  Jeffrey Zeldman

• At the end of the day, you have to look at, 'Are they knowledgeable? Are they doing their job?' Not what their appearance is.

  

  Colin Kaepernick
  • Job

• Directors tell me what to do, and I kind of just put my own twist to it, just to get inside my personality that everybody doesn't really get to see - my off-the-court interests and the way I act. It's just me.

  

  Kyrie Irving
  • Personality

• A wedding dress is both an intimate and personal for a woman - it must reflect the personality and style of the bride.

  

  Carolina Herrera
  • Style
  • Personality
  • Wedding

• I turn a lot of stuff down - big, big movies, the kind I wouldn't want to go to the cinema to see.

  

  Matthew Fox

• Everybody always talks about the science fiction genre, in particular, which always makes me think about people in spaceships. I can appreciate that, but that's not really where I think my dramatist aspect lies.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Science

• If I hadn't believed it, then I wouldn't have seen it.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Have
  • Believed
  • Seen

• An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • World
  • Lonely

• I love the word 'faggot,' because it describes my kind of guy! You see, I am a fag hag. Fag hags are the backbone of the gay community. Without us, you're nothing! We have been there all through history guiding your sorry ass through the underground railroad! We went to the prom with you!

  

  Margaret Cho
  • History
  • Guy
  • Community

• Because we are in the world, we are condemned to meaning, and we cannot do or say anything without its acquiring a name in history.

  

  Maurice Merleau-Ponty
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