Pyotr Ouspensky Quotes

There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

Pyotr Ouspensky

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• I love PBS! I grew up on it. If I had to say which channels were good, I'd say, you got your PBS, your History Channel, your Discovery.

  

  Nas
  • Up
  • Good
  • Love

• I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Death
  • Someone
  • Anybody

• That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Passion
  • Danger
  • Attraction

• The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.

  

  Harold Wilson
  • History
  • Sleep
  • Successful

• Women often come up not knowing how to make decisions. We get wishy-washy. We become great wage earners - breadwinners - but we don't know how to control empires.

  

  Jackee Harry
  • Up
  • Great
  • Women

• I think the motive is to establish in federal law the personhood from conception forward and try and alter the Constitution through statute.

  

  Zoe Lofgren
  • Law
  • Try
  • Forward

• Sense is a line, the mind is a circle. Sense is like a line which is the flux of a point running out from itself, but intellect like a circle that keeps within itself.

  

  Ralph Cudworth
  • Mind
  • Running
  • Like

• All too often the Democratic Party has taken the black vote for granted, and all too often the Republican Party has written it off.

  

  Jack Kemp
  • Black
  • Party
  • Taken

• I'm a character actress, plain and simple... Who can worry about a career? Have a life. Movie stars have careers - actors work, and then they don't work, and then they work again.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Character

• I'm not afraid to admit that I'm a relatively slow reader.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Afraid
  • Admit
  • Slow

• On another level, I want to mention that I have a strong Jewish identity and - over the years - have been involved in several Jewish projects, such as the establishment of a strong program of Judaic Studies at the University of California in San Diego.

  

  Walter Kohn
  • Want
  • Strong
  • Identity

• You know, no one steered people's careers in those days, I don't think, like they do today.

  

  Wanda Jackson
  • People
  • Think
  • Today

• People can very quickly have a very poor self-image. It doesn't take much.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Poor
  • Very

• When yu' can't have what you choose, yu' just choose what you have.

  

  Owen Wister
  • You
  • Choose
  • Just

• Just because you're born in a privileged family and have money doesn't mean you're happy. Happiness you can't buy. Happiness is something you need to work for.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • Work
  • Family
  • Money

• I was a club kid. I was on the cover of 'New York' magazine and discovered like that.

  

  Vanessa Ferlito
  • New
  • New York
  • Club

• Life stuff happens. You get knocked down, and you get back up. That's just always been my mentality. I'm not really fazed by anything. It's in the past. There's nothing I can really do about it now. You learn from it, and you move on.

  

  Odell Beckham, Jr.
  • Life
  • Up
  • Past

• The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Proud
  • Smart
  • Stone

• A physician who treated me as a nervous case for a while said in the end "No! It is not a matter of your nerves; it is I who am nervous".

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Treated
  • Nerves
  • Physician

• They that are discontented under monarchy, call it tyranny; and they that are displeased with aristocracy, call it oligarchy: so also, they which find themselves grieved under a democracy, call it anarchy, which signifies the want of government; and yet I think no man believes, that want of government, is any new kind of government.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Government
  • Democracy
  • Tyranny

• Every time I step onto an airplane, I turn to the right and take a good, hard stare into the maw of the engine. I don't know what I'm looking for. I just do it.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • Time
  • Good
  • Step

• My love for you has no depth, its boundaries are ever-expanding. My love and my life with you will be a never-ending story. My love with you is never-ending

  

  M. Christina White
  • Life

• There is no tyranny more ferocious than the tyranny of morality. Everything is sacrificed to it.

  

  Pyotr Ouspensky
  • Morality
  • Tyranny