John Searles Quotes

What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?

John Searles

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• For most of my career, I've played roles that were written for other actresses.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Career
  • Most
  • Other

• I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Truth

• The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Good
  • Play
  • Tennis

• Ah me! Love can not be cured by herbs.

  

  Ovid
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Herbs

• Design needs a new relationship with the world, one that is more focused on our planet's needs.

  

  Yves Behar
  • World
  • Relationship
  • Design

• For one who has an interest in the body as text, airports are treasure troves of information. It seems almost un-American to enjoy delays, and perhaps enjoy is not the best word, but certainly a delayed flight, if it does nothing else, allows one the opportunity to make prolonged observations about one's fellow travelers.

  

  Abraham Verghese
  • American
  • Opportunity
  • Best

• In boxing, it's one fight, so it's easier to build up rivalries, but everyone's got huge respect for each other.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Up
  • Respect
  • Fight

• Movies don't make people act a fool. People act a fool because they want to act a fool.

  

  Eric Lynn Wright
  • People
  • Want
  • Fool

• 15. As in the night when the sun is not present, one sees the light in the moon, the man who is not present in the heart, sees merely the mind.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Mind
  • Heart
  • Night

• One does simply what one can in order to apply what one knows.

  

  Ferdinand Foch

• I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.

  

  Kage Baker
  • Up
  • Wall

• And I understand they are, in a sense, artists? That is to say, they understand the creative process, the sublimation of fact to symbol and the use of symbol to suggest emotion?

  

  Jack Vance

• The perversity of the universe tends towards a maximum. The universe is hostile.

  

  Larry Niven
  • Universe

• Outside is pure energy and colorless substance. All of the rest happens through the mechanism of our senses. Our eyes see just a small fraction of the light in the world. It is a trick to make a colored world, which does not exist outside of human beings.

  

  Albert Hofmann
  • World
  • Small
  • Energy

• I learned that round four of a major is really not too much different than rounds one through three. I didn't keep to my game plan in the '08 U.S. Women's Open for the final round. That won't happen again!

  

  Paula Creamer
  • Different
  • Women
  • Game

• If something is a comedy for the sake of just comedy's sake and it doesn't have a good message, I don't have an interest in being part of it. If something is just serious and scary with no good message, I don't want to be a part of it.

  

  Danielle Fishel
  • Good
  • Comedy
  • Serious

• I have a fantastic team, and it's much easier having children, because that creates a natural limit.

  

  Phoebe Philo
  • Children
  • Team

• Initially, the site was favourably reviewed in a leading new media publication and the word spread.

  

  Benjamin Cohen

• Study the best and highest things that are; but of yourself humble thoughts retain.

  

  Joe Davis
  • Study
  • Thoughts
  • Humble

• Beauty is the sole ambition, the exclusive goal of Taste.

  

  Charles Baudelaire
  • Ambition

• I think maintenance comes from a daily spiritual growth practice of some kind: prayer, meditation, affirmations. Something that keeps you in the consciousness of higher thoughts and energy. That's also how you make sure you don't do it again.

  

  Gabrielle Bernstein
  • Energy
  • Spiritual
  • Practice

• There are loads of bands I'd love to produce.

  

  Alex Kapranos Franz Ferdinand

• If nothing else, I have money.

  

  Bjork
  • Money

• What is prayer but meditation? What is a demon but a fear that lives inside us, one we cannot easily conquer on our own?

  

  John Searles
  • Fear
  • Prayer
  • Lives