Evelyn Underhill Quotes
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.Evelyn Underhill
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
Pat Robertson -
If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
Vin Scully -
Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan -
I don't want to be a bust.
Malik Jackson -
Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
Xavier Becerra -
The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.
Wassily Kandinsky
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Humor is an antidote to all ills.
Patch Adams -
Glamorized... am I glamorous?
Candice Bergen -
The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
Ma Jian -
The Second Amendment is an integral part of the Bill of Rights.
Ted Cruz -
A champion needs a motivation above and beyond winning.
Pat Riley -
It matters, it always matters, to name rubbish as rubbish … to do otherwise is to legitimize it.
Salman Rushdie
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China is a society which forbids any flow of the information and freedom of speech. This is on record, so everybody should know this.
Ai Weiwei -
When I diagnose my depression now, I think it was partially about saying goodbye to these kids that I always expected to have but already knew that I wouldn't.
Elizabeth Gilbert -
With 'Nostromo', Joseph Conrad said that he had wanted to write a novel about the degradation of an idea. That's what we wanted to show in the case of Dustin Hoffman's character, Bernstein.
David Milch -
Labour politicians for generations have fought to bring democracy to the House of Lords.
Charles Kennedy -
Natalia Vodianova is a model who always did it right. She was able to just put her personality out there, and I try to do that all the time.
Elsa Hosk -
David Wain just texted me and asked me if I wanted to do 'Wet Hot.' And I just said, 'Yeah, sure.' And he said, 'You want me to call you and tell you about the character?' And I was like, 'Not really. Just tell me when, and I'll do it.'
Adam Scott
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The acceleration of technological progress has been the central feature of this century.
Vernor Vinge -
I'm a kid that went to theater school. I thought I was going to be making my living doing plays regionally or in New York or on Broadway, and maybe if I got lucky I would do a movie here or there.
Matt Bomer -
Idealism, though just in its premises, and often daring and honest in their application, is stultified by the exclusive intellectualism of its own methods: by its fatal trust in the squirrel-work of the industrious brain instead of the piercing vision of the desirous heart. It interests man, but does not involve him in its processes: does not catch him up to the new and more real life which it describes. Hence the thing that matters, the living thing, has somehow escaped it; and its observations bear the same relation to reality as the art of the anatomist does to the mystery of birth.
Evelyn Underhill