Huston Smith Quotes

God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

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• I moved about 45 minutes from West Hollywood, and I live surrounded by nature and the wilderness, but I constantly find myself walking around, like in the commercial, saying, 'Can you hear me now?'

  

  Olga Fonda
  • Live
  • Nature
  • Myself

• We're fortunate enough to live on a planet that's bathed in thousands of times more energy than we use and that's stocked with thousands of times more water, raw materials, and even food-growing potential than we need.

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Live
  • Energy
  • Growing

• A key reason that elections are run so badly is that in most states, political partisans are in charge.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • Political
  • Run
  • Key

• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Me
  • Kind

• Revolutions are the locomotives of history.

  

  Karl Marx
  • History
  • Revolutions

• Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Time
  • Long
  • Small

• I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.

  

  Tanith Lee
  • Work
  • Feeling
  • Wish

• Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.

  

  India de Beaufort
  • Long
  • School
  • Friends

• I have always been more interested in experiment, than in accomplishment.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Always
  • More
  • Accomplishment

• I am the vessel. The draft is God's. And God is the thirsty one.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • God
  • Vessel
  • Draft

• Voyaging into the night, one knows exactly where, on a known vessel, an absolute harmony with the elements of the unreal. 1959, reacting on a remark of Robert Motherwell

  

  Ad Reinhardt
  • Night

• There is no muse of philosophy, nor is there one of translation.

  

  Walter Benjamin

• Give good thoughts (nature’s character builder) - you will be good and the world will have good thoughts for you.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • World
  • Good
  • Character

• People should be very free with sex, but they should draw the line at goats.

  

  Elton John
  • People
  • Free
  • Sex

• It doesn't make you feel very good being mean and fierce; it is much nicer playing people who are kind and sweet.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Good
  • Sweet

• I have a feeling I will work for a long, long time. I like it a lot... and I don't know. I just have a feeling that I'm going to be one of those people who go on for ever.

  

  Kristin Scott Thomas
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• For several centuries what has passed for song in literary circles was any text that looked like the lyrics for a commonplace melodic setting.

  

  David Antin
  • Song
  • Lyrics
  • Text

• There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.

  

  Bill Keller

• While researching 'The Submission,' I went to a protest against the Ground Zero mosque in New York when I was about to give birth to twins. It was about 100 degrees. People thought I was very dedicated.

  

  Amy Waldman
  • People

• Jesus Christ has now done all He can do, and He waits at the right hand of the His Father, until you and I as sons of God become manifest and make this world His footstool. He is waiting for us to say, "Jesus, we have made the kingdoms of this world the Kingdom of our God, and are ruling and reigning in your world."

  

  Earl Paulk
  • World
  • God
  • Done

• Well, I think it can be quite helpful to be working on a character who actually existed, historically. Of course, you might have material to study and help you create the character.

  

  Gaspard Ulliel
  • Character
  • Help
  • Think

• I'm not great on television. That's one reason I don't do it very often.

  

  Alex Pareene
  • Great

• It is no longer a question anywhere of inventing interconnections from out of our brains, but of discovering them in the facts.

  

  Friedrich Engels
  • Question

• God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

  

  Huston Smith
  • Jesus
  • God Is
  • Confined