Susanne Langer Quotes
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.
Quotes to Explore
-
When you really start figuring things out as a quarterback, you realize you don't have to be perfect every time, but you do have to be quick and decisive.
-
The main threat to the future of Europe is not those who want to come here to live but our own political, economic, and intellectual elites bent on transforming Europe against the clear will of the European people.
-
Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.
-
Creating a character and living truthfully through her is a whole different ball game. It's all part of the same person but it's a much newer medium for me.
-
Growing up, all I did was work and vacation, but I loved it, no one pushed me into anything. The thing was I developed no special skills. I don't have any resentment because I am a performer and I've always felt that, but it did take its toll socially.
-
I think about terrorism in terms of popcorn. You can't tell which kernels are popcorn and which are not, but you assume you'll always have some kernels that are going to pop.
-
My first big role was when I was 17 and I got the part playing Maria in 'West Side Story' in my school production.
-
I have had two knee surgeries on my right knee: that was my jumping leg that I jumped off for years and years.
-
Web GIS allows us to take our systems of record - our traditional server and desktop technologies - and integrate them, bringing them together into a system of systems.
-
I understood early on that the freedom of America is what made our way of life possible and that we should help other people live in freedom, too.
-
I'm still very much Kate.
-
An awful lot of Republicans, both in Washington and outside Washington, are resigned to leaving Obamacare in effect.
-
It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.
-
OkCupid has users from 18 to 80 on the site. And we get to observe all of their actions. We get to watch how they use the site, how they interact with other people.
-
At the beginning of the week, when we do our game planning, we look at the opponent and all the unique things they do.
-
The mind is just another muscle.
-
Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
-
There is light in the heart; there is no darkness in it. If a man's head be struck off, we cannot say who the man is by simply looking at his trunk. It is the heart which sees through the eye. A man must have the internal eye.
-
We current Justices read the Constitution in the only way that we can: as Twentieth Century Americans. We look to the history of the time of framing and to the intervening history of interpretation. But the ultimate question must be, what do the words of the text mean in our time. For the genius of the Constitution rests not in any static meaning it might have had in a world that is dead and gone, but in the adaptability of its great principles to cope with current problems and current needs.
-
A philosophy is characterized more by the formulation of its problem than by its solution of them.
