Rollo May Quotes

The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

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• Shakespeare's villains are fabulous because none of them know that they are villains. Well, sometimes they do.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Know
  • Sometimes
  • Fabulous

• If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.

  

  Karl Kraus
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Imagination

• 'The Moon Rabbit' is laying against the bunker, dreaming and thinking about life and dreaming the impossible possible and creating its own true stories.

  

  Florentijn Hofman
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • True

• I have always believed that astrophysics should be the extrapolation of laboratory physics, that we must begin from the present universe and work our way backward to progressively more remote and uncertain epochs.

  

  Hannes Alfven
  • Work
  • Universe
  • Present

• Gujarat is the fourth state in the world where we have a separate climate-change department.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • World
  • Where
  • Fourth

• What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Find

• Notting Hill is a very different carnival from anywhere else. This is an international city, so it represents everybody. You walk around every corner here, you'll hear something new. It's awesome.

  

  Leighton Paul Walsh
  • Different
  • City
  • Awesome

• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Attitude
  • Look
  • Youth

• If you had found the right candidate in 2000 or 2004, and you could have put that man or woman, given them ballot access in September of the election year, they could have won the election.

  

  Hamilton Jordan
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Election

• The most luxurious possession, the richest treasure anybody has, is his personal dignity.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Personal
  • Dignity
  • Treasure

• I've certainly had to go through trying to change the fact that I was always identified as the widow of Notorious B.I.G. You know, I'm never going to be able to get away from having been married to him, but that's not what identifies me. You know, my life isn't just about that.

  

  Faith Evans
  • Life
  • Trying
  • Change

• It's true that most people in the trans community don't have the incredible wealth and privilege that Caitlyn does. I don't think that, in any way, diminishes her struggle in her own transitioning.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • True
  • Community

• The question of whether or to what extent human activities are causing global warming is not a matter of ideology, let alone of belief. The issue is simply one of risk management.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Alone
  • Question
  • Risk

• For the prevision is allied Unto the thing so signified; Or say, the foresight that awaits Is the same Genius that creates.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

• History is the revelation of providence.

  

  Lajos Kossuth
  • History

• I feel like there's a lot of beauty in the darkness of Narrow Stairs, but that's not really a place I'm ready to go to for a while. I'm interested in taking a different approach and having the next record be different in tone - I'm just not interested in making another dark, dark album.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Different
  • Dark

• I agree that you might clone some people who would look amazingly like their parental cell donors, but the odds are that they’d be almost as different as you or me, and certainly more different than any of today’s identical twins.

  

  Lewis Thomas
  • People
  • Different
  • Today

• Dreamers become writers, and for me, being a published writer is a dream come true.

  

  David A. Adler
  • True
  • Dream

• If you do the same thing too often, it gets to be the only thing you can do.

  

  Richard Roundtree
  • Thing
  • Often
  • Can Do

• We must start human society from scratch; as Francis Bacon said, we must recreate human understanding.

  

  Sébastien-Roch Nicolas
  • Understanding
  • Humans
  • Said

• When you have kids and you're married...you know, life takes its toll on you after a while, and then you're just not as creative, you're not as motivated... And it takes a special person when it's time to dig down and do a record, to really go in there and pour out whatever it is you got in you to put on a record, and that's what we did.

  

  Elgin Baylor Lumpkin
  • Kids
  • Creative
  • Special

• There are co-ed schools in Saudi, but those are American or British. My dad, of course, believed in the good old CBSE Indian school system and thus, my younger brother Ishmeet and I were put in an all-boys CBSE school. My mother could move out only if she wore a burkha.

  

  Karan Singh Grover
  • Mother
  • Dad
  • Brother

• People want me to do the strangest things. They want me to sign their arms or chests.

  

  Tia Carrere
  • Arms
  • Sign
  • Strangest

• The creative act arises out of the struggle of human beings with and against that which limits them.

  

  Rollo May
  • Struggle
  • Humans
  • Creative