Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes

It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

Pyotr Ouspensky

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• The antagonisms between men and women express themselves in the most delicate phase of their life together - in their sexual relationship.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• Mr. Norrell is like a librarian trying to do magic... That's the story of my career, really. I stand next to good looking men and make them look better!

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Good
  • Men
  • Trying

• It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not pay with their own.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Men
  • Pay
  • Reasonable

• Philosophy! Empty thinking by ignorant conceited men who think they can digest without eating!

  

  Iris Murdoch
  • Men
  • Thinking
  • Philosophy

• I never felt the need to introduce all the obstacles in my past when I say, 'Hello, my name is Nate.' But at the same time, I've never hidden from it.

  

  Nate Parker
  • Time
  • Past
  • Obstacles

• It is the duty of our men to enroll themselves in the national services. We need all our manpower for defence. For the military and... we need a quarter of a million men.

  

  Eamon de Valera
  • Men
  • Military
  • Duty

• Quality is everyone's responsibility.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Work
  • Responsibility
  • Quality

• Eighty percent of married men cheat in America. The rest cheat in Europe.

  

  Jackie Mason
  • Men
  • America
  • Rest

• In fact, for all kinds of offenses - and, for no offenses - from murders to misdemeanors, men and women are put to death without judge or jury; so that, although the political excuse was no longer necessary, the wholesale murder of human beings went on just the same.

  

  Ida B. Wells
  • Men
  • Women
  • Death

• This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.

  

  Haile Selassie
  • World
  • Men
  • Human

• Men are what their mothers made them.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Men
  • Mom
  • Mother`s

• It has always been a mystery to me how men can feel themselves honoured by the humiliation of their fellow beings.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Me
  • Feel
  • Mystery

• I began with small roles in successful movies like 'No Country For Old Men' by the Coen brothers; but it was 'The Last Exorcism' that changed my life: with what I earned, I left Texas and moved to Los Angeles.

  

  Caleb Landry Jones
  • Life
  • Men
  • Country

• The size of your accomplishments, the quality of your achievement, will depend very largely on how big a man you see in yourself, what sort of image you get of your possible self, yourself at your best.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Man
  • Best
  • Quality

• Being a mom makes you far more compassionate. You have more empathy for people, more love. I was always taught to say thank you, and I'm very grateful. And my kids have that quality, too.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • People
  • Love
  • Kids

• I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Men
  • Women
  • Love

• The quality of our thoughts is bordered on all sides by our facility with language.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • Quality
  • Language
  • Thoughts

• Why are video games so violent? The ones I've seen remind me of the 4th of July, with everything exploding, buildings, cars, airplanes, men and women. Kill, kill, and kill for sport and entertainment.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Men
  • Women
  • Why

• Love is of that excellent nature, that it is esteemed by the best of men, and accepted from the meanest persons; what then is the affection of a Father!

  

  John Pearson
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Father

• I would rather be known as 'Jim Kolbe, the trade expert in Congress who happens to be gay,' rather than 'Jim Kolbe, gay congressman from Arizona.'

  

  Jim Kolbe
  • Gay

• How about Proust's In Search of Lost Time?" Tamaru asked. "If you've never read it this would be a good opportunity to read the whole thing." "Have you read it?" "No, I haven't been in jail, or had to hide out for a long time. Someone once said unless you have those kinds of opportunities, you can't read the whole of Proust.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Opportunity
  • Search
  • Read

• I'll dispose of my teeth as I see fit, and after they've gone, I'll get along. I started off living on gruel, and by God, I can always go back to it again.

  

  S. J. Perelman
  • God
  • Always
  • Teeth

• Though peace be made, yet it's interest that keep peace.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Peace

• It is by overcoming obstacles that man develops those qualities he needs.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Men
  • Quality
  • Obstacles