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?

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• 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
  • Cured

• 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

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

  

  Larry Niven
  • Universe

• 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 ran away. I kept running away. Almost once a week, I'd run away from those schools. They'd catch me. They'd bring me back to the school, beat me. And it was - it was terrible.

  

  Dennis Banks
  • School
  • Running

• I really value people besides parents who nurture kids.

  

  Dar Williams
  • People
  • Kids
  • Parents

• On overnight flights, I have trained myself to get to sleep almost instantly after takeoff. I always listen to the same audiobook on my iPod so my brain knows, regardless of time zone, that that voice means it's time for bed.

  

  Margaret Heffernan
  • Time
  • Sleep
  • Brain

• The Land of Israel needs to build and be built, period.

  

  Eli Yishai
  • Period

• A play is not a tweet. It can't be compressed and embedded, and it definitely can't be delivered apologetically.

  

  Corey Stoll

• Going forward, as we work to strengthen our border in the interests of homeland security, we must also recognize the economic importance of immigration reform.

  

  Dave Reichert
  • Work
  • Immigration

• It's always great to have things from France at a wedding. It's symbolic of style, of culture, of taste.

  

  Andre Leon Talley
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Style

• As a president I will be like the candidate that I am, a respectful candidate, a rallying candidate, a normal candidate for a normal presidency, at the service of the Republic.

  

  Francois Hollande
  • Service

• The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

  

  Edward Dahlberg
  • Men
  • Fear

• Martyrs have been sincere. And so have tyrants. Wise men have been sincere. And so have fools.

  

  E. Haldeman-Julius
  • Men
  • Fear
  • Wise

• He is thinking quietly: I should not have got out of the habit of prayer.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Prayer
  • Habit
  • Quietly

• 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