Gaston Bachelard Quotes

It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

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• The American dream is about freedom.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • American
  • Dream
  • Freedom

• Every dogma, every philosophic or theological creed, was at its inception a statement in terms of the intellect of a certain inner experience.

  

  Felix Adler
  • Experience
  • Intellect
  • Dogma

• The average man's judgment is so poor, he runs a risk every time he uses it.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Time
  • Man
  • Risk

• You know, it's a hugely difficult thing to take any work of art or drawing and say 'make that real.'

  

  Zack Snyder
  • Work
  • Real
  • Art

• Jenna's traveled with me; they've both traveled with their dad. This is the only time they've been old enough in all of their dad's campaigns to really be involved in.

  

  Laura Bush
  • Time
  • Me
  • Dad

• When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Time
  • Pay
  • University

• I'm not the biggest comic book fan.

  

  Fran Kranz
  • Book
  • Fan
  • Comic

• I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Movie
  • Years
  • Four

• I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.

  

  Sam Smith
  • Music
  • Women
  • Love

• I do not believe any president can bind a successor president to give up his fundamental role as protector of the country.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Country

• Our world is evolving without consideration, and the result is a loss of biodiversity, energy issues, congestion in cities. But geography, if used correctly, can be used to redesign sustainable and more livable cities.

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • World
  • Energy
  • Loss

• My films have been progressing towards a certain kind of minimalism, even though it was never intended. Elements which can be eliminated have been eliminated.

  

  Abbas Kiarostami
  • Kind
  • Never
  • Min­i­mal­ism

• I will say that rowing in the first Olympics was probably one of the most proud moments in my life. What I enjoy about the sport is that it's definitive. Nobody can take away from the fact that you're an Olympian. It's indisputable. You get there on merit and merit alone.

  

  Cameron Winklevoss
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Proud

• Short cycle business are being impacted by credit, and are being impacted by gasoline prices, food, distribution businesses, chemical business.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Food
  • Short

• If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.

  

  Idris Elba
  • Work
  • History
  • Black

• I coach a high school wrestling team and a middle school team. I consider myself a coach and an activist, so I'm really involved in the community.

  

  Nate Parker
  • School
  • High
  • Team

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.

  

  Malaika Arora Khan
  • Want
  • Know
  • Learn

• Natura il fece, e poi roppe la stampa.

  

  Ludovico Ariosto

• The English countryside, its growth and its destruction, is a genuine and tragic theme.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Growth
  • English
  • Genuine

• I feel like in L.A., you wake up, you put your diamond studs on, put your workout gear, your cute shades, and it is kind of the outfit you stay in the entire day.

  

  Adrienne Bailon 3LW
  • Up
  • Cute
  • Workout

• Growing up I always used to shop in Oxfam. I'd find things for 50p and then take them home, cut them up and make them into something new.

  

  Lily Donaldson
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• The main foundations of every state, new states as well as ancient or composite ones, are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms, and where there are good arms, good laws inevitably follow.

  

  Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli
  • State
  • Foundation
  • Ancient

• It is better to live in a state of impermanence than in one of finality.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Live
  • State
  • Impermanence