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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• 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
  • 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

• 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

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

  

  Larry Niven
  • Universe

• 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

• 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

• When I moved to New York, I felt very strong emotionally and mentally. Aside from touring, I'd spent a couple of years alone and because of that, I was able to go out in the world again.

  

  Marketa Irglova
  • World
  • Strong
  • Alone

• 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

• Religion is faith in an infinite Creator, who delights in and enjoins that rectitude which conscience commands us to seek. This conviction gives a Divine sanction to duty.

  

  William Ellery Channing
  • Giving
  • Divine
  • Conviction

• We human beings are what we have been for millions of years - colossally greedy, envious, aggressive, jealous, anxious and despairing, with occasional flashes of joy and affection. We are a strange mixture of hate, fear and gentleness; we are both violence and peace.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Fear
  • Hate
  • Peace

• The fear isn't that big data discriminates. We already know that it does. It's that you don't know if you've been discriminated against.

  

  Kate Crawford
  • Fear

• People often ask me, 'How do you go about choosing who to feature on Into The Gloss?' And I've never had a great answer. Ultimately, I think the #1 thing that draws me to someone is their sense of freedom.

  

  Emily Weiss
  • People
  • Great
  • Freedom

• The unknown makes people uncomfortable.

  

  Holly Hunter
  • People
  • Unknown

• 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