Huston Smith Quotes

...primal people see the objects of this world not or not only as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

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• If women would today would rise en masse and demand their emancipation, the men would be compelled to grant it.

  

  Victoria Woodhull
  • Men
  • Women
  • Today

• I just enjoy life now. I just enjoy every morning I get to wake up.

  

  Nas
  • Life
  • Up
  • Morning

• My dad's a doctor, and when I was 8, I went to one of his medical conferences where they were demonstrating laser surgery on a chicken. I was so mad that a chicken had to die, I never ate meat again.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Dad
  • Die
  • Mad

• I've been around tennis, and I have a feeling for the sport. I still play tennis, and I can still do a lot of harm to a lot of people.

  

  Oleg Cassini
  • People
  • Feeling
  • Play

• Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.

  

  Hans Jonas
  • Human
  • Human Beings
  • Duties

• Gustafsson is a stud, man. He's a good fighter.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Good
  • Man
  • Fighter

• 2005 was a great year for me for fantastic roles that nobody saw.

  

  Oliver Platt
  • Great
  • Me
  • Roles

• It is not fun singing about losing somebody like that, but at the same time it was easy to write because the memories were so real and vivid and so much a part of who I am.

  

  Vince Gill
  • Time
  • Real
  • Fun

• It wasn't glamorous in my day. In the regions, reporters were seen as such low life that they didn't merit their name in the Radio Times. Now people are interested in being famous. I never gave it a thought.

  

  Kate Adie
  • People
  • Life
  • Day

• I was in my mid-teens when someone gave me a copy of 'Pears Encyclopaedia of Myth and Legends' as a birthday present. It sat on my shelves for many months before I looked at it. When I did, I couldn't stop reading it.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Stop
  • Reading
  • Present

• If you want to be a good blues singer, people are going to be down on you, so dress like you're going to the bank to borrow money.

  

  B. B. King
  • People
  • Good
  • Money

• First of all, Bolshevism represents revolution and the revolutionary struggle.

  

  C. L. R. James
  • Struggle
  • Revolution
  • First

• At the Big Bad Lab, we build participatory art and media platforms for causes, communities and organizations we care about.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Art
  • Bad
  • Care

• For people who mourn for old Times Square - hey, there's a ton of places in the city still like that! Get on the train and go visit them!

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • People
  • City

• The easiest way to figure out who the customer is in an online space is to figure out who is paying for the thing. Usually, the people paying are the customers. So on Facebook, the people paying are marketers. That makes them the customers. And it means we are the product being delivered to those customers.

  

  Douglas Rushkoff
  • People
  • Space

• I think the difference between El Salvador and Nicaragua is that in Nicaragua you had a popular insurrection, and in El Salvador you had a revolution.

  

  Bianca Jagger
  • Revolution
  • Popular

• Novel-writing is, for the novelist, a game of let's pretend.

  

  Philip Roth
  • Writing
  • Game

• It is essential that God created men and women to be one, as it is said in the first chapters of the Bible. So I think even if our culture is against marriage as essential form of relations between human beings, between women and men. I think our nature is always present, and we can understand it if we will understand it.

  

  Pope Benedict XVI
  • God
  • Men
  • Women

• Music, and mood, she loves, but love she hates(As curious ladies do, their public cates),This train, with meteors, comets, lightenings,The dreadful presence of our empress sings:Which grant for ever (O eternal Night)Till virtue flourish in the light of light.

  

  George Chapman
  • Music
  • She
  • Night

• You never read Spider-Man? Accepting your true identity means understanding that you are a stranger to this world. A freak, ostracized by the very people you want to help.

  

  Ted Dekker
  • People
  • World
  • True

• The greatest thing anyone can do for God and man is pray. It is not the only thing; but it is the chief thing. The great people of the earth today are the people who pray. I do not mean those who talk about prayer; not those who can explain about prayer; but I mean those people who take time and pray.

  

  S. D Gordon
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• Unless 'Wii Fit' stops acting like a mean girl, it's over between us forever.

  

  Jen Lancaster
  • Girl
  • Forever

• Sometimes there are actions that we are forced to take, but there need to be boundaries beyond which we are going to recognize that we're not going to go because we still are Americans, and we are supposed to be representing something to people in this country and overseas.

  

  John O. Brennan
  • People
  • Country

• ...primal people see the objects of this world not or not only as solid but as open windows to their divine source.

  

  Huston Smith
  • People
  • Divine
  • Source