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.
  • Father
  • Age
  • 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

• 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

• I was able to sit at Lincoln's side and see how he thought and how he acted, and how he felt about what was going on around him. I felt the pressures that were on him. You can see what people were writing to him, how they were nudging him.

  

  David Herbert Donald
  • People
  • Writing

• Her quickness of mind was like a hiss, a dart, a lethal bite.

  

  Elena Ferrante
  • Mind
  • Bite
  • Quickness

• I'm very attracted to schematic structures. My brother is a chemical engineer, he has a very mathematical mind, and he's also a visual artist. I think we have a lot in common. And my first film had a very tight structure, narratively.

  

  Jeremy Podeswa
  • Mind
  • Brother

• Brains, you see, vary a lot from person to person - they vary as much as faces do.

  

  Sam Kean
  • You
  • See
  • Brains

• 'Reverence for parents' stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness.

  

  Aeschylus
  • Parents

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

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Art
  • Bliss
  • Nurturance