Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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• For me, writing a song, I sit down and the process doesn't really involve me thinking about the demographic of people I'm trying to hit or who I want to be able to relate to the song or what genre of music it falls under.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • People
  • Music
  • Thinking

• Custom, that is before all law; Nature, that is above all art.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Law

• The formula for achieving middle-class success is simple: Finish high school; don't have a child before the age of 20; and get married before having the child.

  

  Larry Elder
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • You
  • Body
  • Force

• Running is what keeps my weight down. I have to stay active or I could easily gain weight.

  

  Camilla Luddington
  • Running
  • Down
  • Active

• In this case, the particle formed has correspondingly less energy, whereas the product nucleus passes into the ground state with emission of the quantity of energy saved as gamma radiation.

  

  Walther Bothe
  • Energy
  • Product
  • Quantity

• There is no object so soft but it makes a hub for the wheeled universe.

  

  Walt Whitman
  • Universe
  • Object
  • Soft

• One of the strange things about violent and authoritarian regimes is they don't like the glare of negative publicity.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Strange
  • Negative
  • Publicity

• I, as a cricketer, would like to see 100 counties playing top-flight cricket, just like tennis and football. If I am alive to see that, I will be very happy.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Happy
  • Football
  • Tennis

• But to the slave mother New Year's day comes laden with peculiar sorrows. She sits on her cold cabin floor, watching the children who may all be torn from her the next morning; and often does she wish that she and they might die before the day dawns.

  

  Harriet Ann Jacobs
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Die

• Ford made some of the most progressive pictures.

  

  Karen Morley
  • Pictures
  • Most
  • Progressive

• When the motor was completed and tested, we found that it would develop 16 horse power for a few seconds, but that the power rapidly dropped till, at the end of a minute, it was only 12 horse power.

  

  Orville Wright
  • Power
  • End
  • Horse

• Writing has never been that simple for me.

  

  Pat Conroy
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Simple

• We have Christians against Muslims against Jews, and no matter how liberal your theology, merely identifying yourself as a Christian or a Jew lends tacit validity to this status quo. People have morally identified with a subset of humanity rather than with humanity as a whole.

  

  Sam Harris
  • People
  • Christian
  • Humanity

• I think when you start analyzing trends and start making shows for a particular audience, you are making a fatal move. I think that's why people are doing too many revivals, that's why there's a plethora of rock musicals. There's room for everything, but not room for too much of anything.

  

  Harold Prince
  • People
  • Why
  • Rock

• Before that I wanted to be a magazine illustrator - I probably would have painted Gothic scenes.

  

  Ira Levin
  • Before
  • Magazine
  • Gothic

• If we go to the 1940s, Nazi Germany - look, we saw it in Britain. Neville Chamberlain told the British people: Accept the Nazis. Yes, they will dominate the continent of Europe, but that is not our problem. Let's appease them. Why? Because it can't be done. We cannot possibly stand against them.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • People
  • Done
  • Why

• When I heard Flying Lotus, I was like, 'Wow, okay, everything can be off the grid.'

  

  Flume
  • Like
  • Everything
  • Flying

• The real question is should we trust people who don't like cheese?

  

  Jim Gaffigan
  • People
  • Real
  • Trust

• You see some classes of the human family that are black, uncouth, uncomely, disagreeable and low in their habits, wild, and seemingly deprived of nearly all the blessings of the intelligence that is generally bestowed upon mankind....Cain slew his brother. Can might have been killed, and that would have put a termination to that line of human beings. This was not to be, and the Lord put a mark upon him, which is the flat nose and black skin.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Intelligence
  • Habits
  • Human Family

• We need a vibrant Medicaid program and strategies to expand affordable access to health care for all, especially for the specialty care services that community health centers do not provide.

  

  Jan Schakowsky
  • Community
  • Health

• Dogs have such short life spans, it's like a concentrated version of a human life. When they get older, they become much more like our mothers. They wait for us, watch out for us, are completely fascinated by everything we do.

  

  Caroline Knapp
  • Life

• And he goes through life, his mouth open, and his mind closed.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Mind
  • Listening
  • Mouths

• Youth does not require reasons for living, it only needs pretexts.

  

  Jose Ortega y Gasset