Samuel R. Delany (Samuel Ray Delany Jr.) Quotes

In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

Samuel R. Delany

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• If I am judged for my work, many myths about me as an autocrat or otherwise would become clearer. I feel false propaganda will not last, and truth will ultimately prevail.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • Work
  • Truth
  • Propaganda

• My parents are opposites who balance each other out.

  

  Tamara Ecclestone
  • Parents
  • Balance
  • Opposites

• I'm a traditionalist with suits. It doesn't need extra pockets, and I don't want headphone jacks in my jacket. I appreciate designers who do different things, but for me, the most basic version of that item is what I want.

  

  Waris Ahluwalia
  • Want
  • Appreciate
  • Version

• Dinner for me is usually some version of chicken or fish - I love salmon - with grilled vegetables and salad.

  

  Parker Young
  • Dinner
  • Some
  • Version

• Divorce Myths: 1. When love has gone out of a marriage, it is better to get divorced. 2. It is better for the children for the unhappy couple to divorce than to raise their children in the atmosphere of an unhappy marriage. 3. Divorce is the lesser of two evils. 4. You owe it to yourself. 5. Everyone's entitled to one mistake. 6. God led me to this divorce.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Children
  • Marriage

• Science has rolled its war wagons over the crushed myths of so many religious beliefs. It has marshaled its mechanics to explain the motions of the sun, moon, and stars. It has mapped the heavens, leaving no place for gods to live.

  

  Walker Evans
  • Live
  • War
  • Science

• We arrive with our...'baggage' and for a while they're brilliant, they're 'Baggage Handlers.' We say, 'Where's your baggage?' They deny all knowledge of it...'They're in love'...they have none. Then...just as you're relaxing...a Great Big Juggernaut arrives...with their baggage. It Got Held Up. One of the greatest myths men have about women is that we overpack.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Women
  • Knowledge
  • Brilliant

• It is hard to think of anything which more tragically and clearly exemplifies the phenomenon of good political intentions achieving the precise opposite of their aim.

  

  A. N. Wilson
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • History

• Where does one go in a tremendous city like Calcutta to find insider information? I recalled India's golden rule: do the opposite of what would be normal anywhere else.

  

  Sayyid Tahir al-Hashimi
  • City
  • Travel
  • Cities

• Take the course opposite to custom and you will almost always do well.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Risk
  • Wells
  • Philosophical

• If you don't have a good model for success, just look at what everybody else is doing and do the opposite.

  

  Earl Nightingale
  • Good
  • Success
  • Model

• We are always pregnant with a truer version of ourselves.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Always
  • Pregnant
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• All things are in flux; the flux is subject to a unifying measure or rational principle. This principle (logos, the hidden harmony behind all change) bound opposites together in a unified tension, which is like that of a lyre, where a stable harmonious sound emerges from the tension of the opposing forces that arise from the bow bound together by the string.

  

  Heraclitus
  • Opposites
  • Subject
  • Emerges

• Beauty is for the artist something outside all orders of rank, because in beauty opposites are tamed; the highest sign of power, namely power over opposites; moreover, without tension: - that violence is no longer needed: that everything follows, obeys, so easily and so pleasantly - that is what delights the artist's WILL TO POWER.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Power
  • Beauty
  • Tension

• The strong man holds in a living blend strongly marked opposites. The idealists are not usually realistic, and the realists are not usually idealistic. The militant are not generally known to be passive, nor the passive to be militant. Seldom are the humble self-assertive, or the self-assertive humble. But life at it's best is a creative synthesis of opposites in fruitful harmony.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Life
  • Harmony
  • Opposites

• Our mind is capable of passing beyond the dividing line we have drawn for it. Beyond the pairs of opposites of which the world consists, other, new insights begin.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Mind
  • Opposites
  • Consists

• Sometimes when you have children they're the opposites of you.

  

  Tommy Lee Mötley Crüe
  • Children
  • Opposites

• 'Revolution' . There were two versions of that song but the underground left only picked up on the one that said 'count me out'.

  

  John Lennon The Beatles
  • Song
  • Revolution
  • Version

• Jam! I love my jam. I've just had a batch of it come through, I've been making it.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Love
  • Come
  • Through

• The cool, grey city of love.

  

  George Sterling
  • Love
  • City
  • Cool

• The truth is that liberal humanism is at once largely ineffectual, and the best ideology of the 'human' that present bourgeois society can muster.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Truth
  • Humans
  • Ideology

• I was sitting in the back room by myself when someone came in and said, "Mr. Zimmer, I have to take you down to the make up room." I told them that if anyone can help this face they deserve a bonus.

  

  Don Zimmer
  • Up
  • Help
  • Makeup

• I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.

  

  Gerald Kersh
  • Mind
  • Space
  • Unbelief

• In myths things always turn into their opposites as one version supersedes the next.

  

  Samuel R. Delany
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