Sarah Ban Breathnach Quotes

Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

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• If I watch 'Gone With the Wind,' I always find it interesting. I think, 'What's going to happen next? What's that character going to do?' But you know, you never really need to watch the films you made again. They stay inside you, always with you.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Character
  • Interesting
  • Wind

• History is a race between education and catastrophe.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • History
  • Education
  • Race

• Several of the energy companies want to do the right thing. It's a matter of leveling the playing field though for them and that's why corrective action here is necessary.

  

  Ed Royce
  • Why
  • Energy
  • Action

• The essential function of art is moral. But a passionate, implicit morality, not didactic. A morality which changes the blood, rather than the mind.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Mind
  • Art
  • Moral

• China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There's no central authority. There's no one you can go to and say, 'We're going to turn Bitcoin off.'

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • May
  • China
  • Bitcoin

• I think increasingly we want to read the history that wasn't written by the victors.

  

  Kate Williams
  • History
  • Think
  • Want

• In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.

  

  Raf Simons
  • Christian
  • Opinion
  • Theatre

• He who has faith has... an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.

  

  B. C. Forbes
  • World
  • May
  • Hope

• When you use words, you're able to keep your mind alive. Writing is my way of reaffirming my own existence.

  

  Gao Xingjian
  • Writing
  • Mind
  • Words

• The stress and turmoil that my father had to go through at a young age to make sure that I didn't have the same trials and tribulations, I couldn't be more grateful.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Age
  • Father
  • Stress

• Not all paintings are abstract; they're not all Jackson Pollock. There's value in a photograph of a man alone on a boat at sea, and there is value in painting of a man alone on a boat at sea. In the painting, the painting has more freedom to express an idea, more latitude in being able to elicit certain emotion.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Man
  • Freedom
  • Alone

• I have lots of memories of my father. He was an incredible father. We all loved him to death. He'd try to educate us as much as he could and was always looking out for us. He was very protective.

  

  Paris-Michael Katherine Jackson
  • Father
  • Death
  • Memories

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• Our task, of course, is to transmute the anger that is affliction into the anger that is determination to bring about change. I think, in fact, that one could give that as a definition of revolution.

  

  Barbara Deming
  • Change
  • Revolution
  • Determination

• New York is so full of the best unemployed actors on the planet.

  

  Rachel McAdams
  • Best
  • New
  • New York

• Maybe you have to know darkness before you can appreciate the light.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Light

• Rock n roll stops the traffic

  

  Bono U2
  • Rock

• 'Such unsubtle escapism! Really, Dr. Fara, such folly smacks of genius. A lesser mind would be incapable of it.'

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • Mind

• I'm not saying that being gay is what defines me, but at the same time, if you feel like you have to hide it, then it becomes what defines you. You keep it hidden, and the secret becomes you.

  

  Alan Ball
  • Time
  • Gay

• In every message she spoke of birds, of flight, of the world away. Even back then, she flew against what was presented to her. I wanted to cling to her wings and soar, no matter how intimidated I was.

  

  Lisa See
  • World
  • She
  • Message

• Art dealing is when you're doing it as a business.

  

  Jeffrey Deitch
  • Art
  • Business

• I don't do radio or TV. I do people.

  

  Corrine Brown
  • People

• Christian Science is often inherited, and like many inheritances, it comes with family secrets. The religion encourages secrecy. Members of the Church tend to hide their illnesses from one another, even within families. My father has never once, in my presence, admitted to feeling ill.

  

  Caroline Fraser
  • Family
  • Father
  • Science

• Self-nurturance, or learning to bask in bliss, is an acquired art form.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Art
  • Bliss
  • Nurturance