Evelyn Beatrice Hall Quotes

If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

Evelyn Beatrice Hall

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• Folks have to pin me down because, for one thing, I don't have a laptop. I don't have an iPhone, and I refuse to carry them because they're immensely hackable.

  

  Dan Aykroyd
  • Me
  • Down
  • Refuse

• The temple is a place of worship. Reverence is a supernal form of worship. It is the form of worship found in the celestial kingdom.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Place
  • Temple
  • Celestial

• But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.

  

  Tadao Ando
  • Building
  • Wood
  • Temple

• The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Voice
  • Temple
  • Dancers

• I refuse to make uninspired music.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Music
  • Refuse
  • Uninspired

• Hip-hop can be limiting and I refuse to accept limits.

  

  LL Cool J
  • Accepting
  • Hip Hop
  • Limits

• There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to.

  

  A. C. Dixon
  • Experience
  • Christian
  • Refuse

• In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Serious
  • Thing
  • Temple

• If you're into architecture and you're from the West, everything is hors d'oeuvres for working to rebuild the Temple. Ultimately you're led there. You can't escape it.

  

  Ben Nicholson
  • Architecture
  • Escape
  • Temple

• To refuse a hearing to an opinion, because they are sure that it is false, is to assume that their certainty is the same thing as absolute certainty. All silencing of discussion is an assumption of infallibility.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • Discussion
  • False
  • Refuse

• Many men cry Peace! Peace! but they refuse to do the things that make for peace.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Peace
  • Cry
  • Refuse

• Most serious writers refuse to make themselves available to the things that technology is doing. I've never been able to understand this sort of fear.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Technology
  • Serious
  • Able

• The golden rule to apply in all such cases is resolutely to refuse to have what millions cannot.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Cases
  • Refuse
  • Golden Rule

• It is superstitious to put one's hopes in formalities, but arrogant to refuse to submit to them.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Refuse
  • Hopes
  • Superstitious

• Life is paradise, and we are all in paradise, but we refuse to see it.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life is
  • Paradise
  • Refuse

• My favoured temple is an humble heart.

  

  Philip James Bailey
  • Heart
  • Humble
  • Temple

• My friends are so cynical, they refuse to keep the faith.

  

  Robbie Williams Take That
  • Friends
  • Faith
  • Refuse

• Sometimes I come across a tree which seems like Buddha or Jesus: loving, compassionate, still, unambitious, enlightened, in eternal meditation, giving pleasure to a pilgrim, shade to a cow, berries to a bird, beauty to its surroundings, health to its neighbors, branches for the fire, leaves for the soil, asking nothing in return, in total harmony with the wind and the rain. How much can I learn from a tree? The tree is my church, the tree is my temple, the tree is my mantra, the tree is my poem and my prayer.

  

  Satish Kumar
  • Jesus
  • Pleasure
  • Harmony

• Conversation is but carving! Give no more to every guest Than he's able to digest.

  

  Jonathan Swift
  • Conversation
  • Digest

• When it comes to racism, discrimination, corruption, public lies, dictatorships, and human rights, you have to take a stand as a reporter because I think our responsibility as journalist is to confront those who are abusing power.

  

  Jorge Ramos
  • Power
  • Responsibility
  • Confront

• One of the reporters must have flunked journalism school because he asked a question that went straight to the point.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • School
  • Funny
  • Question

• I have no desire for wealth or possessions, and so I have nothing. I do not experience the initial suffering of having to accumulate possessions, the intermediate suffering of having to guard and keep up possessions, nor the final suffering of loosing the possessions.

  

  Milarepa
  • Possession
  • Finals
  • Initials

• I find directing so incredibly rewarding and challenging and humbling and exciting and engaging. Scenes become challenging. Actors bring out the best of you. Circumstances demand you dig deep.

  

  Noah Wyle
  • Circumstances
  • Challenging
  • Directing

• If to be great means to be good, then Denis Diderot was a little man. But if to be great means to do great things in the teeth of great obstacles, then none can refuse him a place in the temple of the Immortals.

  

  Evelyn Beatrice Hall
  • Refuse
  • Temple
  • Immortals