Jose Ortega y Gasset Quotes

We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

Jose Ortega y Gasset

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• I believe marriage is between a man and a woman. I am not in favor of gay marriage. But when you start playing around with constitutions, just to prohibit somebody who cares about another person, it just seems to me that's not what America's about. Usually, our constitutions expand liberties, they don't contract them.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • America
  • Man

• It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • Friends
  • Know
  • More

• I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Employ
  • Nobel

• I certainly didn't reach out to my old assets and ask 'em how they're doing, although I would have liked to.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Doing
  • Old
  • Reach

• God manifests himself in each historical period according to the understanding of the people of the era.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • People
  • God
  • Understanding

• I've definitely had those moments when I think a relationship with somebody is one way, and then it just flips.

  

  Yael Stone
  • Think
  • Relationship
  • Moments

• It was only a few years ago that I couldn't get hired to save my life.

  

  Samantha Bee
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Save

• I make the music my ears want to hear, I wear the clothes my body wants to wear and the ones boys call me back for, and I generally make the songs that my feet dance to.

  

  Natalia Kills
  • Music
  • Dance
  • Feet

• Marriage is a social construct, but I still believe in it.

  

  Talulah Riley
  • Believe
  • Marriage
  • Social

• Marriage is a wonderful institution, but who would want to live in an institution?

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Live
  • Funny
  • Marriage

• I write about real people in disguise. If anything, my characters are toned down-the truth is much more bizarre.

  

  Jackie Collins
  • People
  • Real
  • Truth

• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  

  Yochai Benkler
  • Power
  • Fear
  • Blow

• Presidents are nice people. They're nice, fun-loving people who have great jobs.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • People
  • Great
  • Fun

• We've arranged a civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science and technology.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Science
  • Technology
  • Depend

• The target audience goes back to conception. That means pre-natal care, safe delivery, post-natal screening, and the ordinary stuff you do in pediatrics.

  

  C. Everett Koop
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  • Care
  • Safe

• A lot of people had a misconception that I would be the perfect poster child for Islam. So I got a lot of Instagram comments like, 'Oh, you don't have your neck covered, you're not a Muslim!' My thing is, stop judging women, especially if you're a man, because you don't know the responsibility that comes with wearing a hijab.

  

  Halima Aden
  • People
  • Women
  • Man

• I think I am smart unless I am really, really in love, and then I am ridiculously stupid.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Stupid
  • Smart
  • Ridiculously

• Brazil is on my side.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • Side
  • Brazil

• Politics is repetition. It is not change. Change is something beyond what we call politics. Change is the essence politics is supposed to be the means to bring into being.

  

  Kate Millett
  • Change
  • Politics
  • Repetition

• I just don't feel the whole white guilt and pussy-footing around race issues. I'm completely above all that. I've never worried about what anyone might think of me 'cause I've always believed that the true of heart recognize the true of heart.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • Heart
  • True

• In time, we will have to recognise that it is not 'nature' that we need to protect, but ourselves, and we can only do this by abandoning the old, grandiose, profit-seeking schemes so beloved of our masters and learning to till the soil, live to scale, and live within our means.

  

  John Burnside
  • Time
  • Live
  • Nature

• Real adventure is defined best as a journey from which you may not come back alive, and certainly not as the same person.

  

  Yvon Chouinard
  • Real
  • May
  • Journey

• Drama is made up of what people most fear and deny in themselves. The taboos. The secrets. The devils and the demons. The only reason they let us live, I suppose, is because somebody has to confront what those things are like and tell other people about them.

  

  Elizabeth Ashley
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• We do not live to think, but, on the contrary, we think in order that we may succeed in surviving.

  

  Jose Ortega y Gasset
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