Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

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• Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

  

  Gary Bauer
  • Up
  • Believe
  • Government

• I chose New Orleans because New Orleans chose me. This city gave me my dad and my love of life.

  

  Irvin Mayfield
  • Life
  • Love
  • Dad

• There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• I don't believe in miracles.

  

  Sam Simon
  • Believe
  • Miracles

• I never accepted Communist dogma or theory.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Never
  • Theory
  • Communist

• I read 'The Shining' before I ever saw the movie, when I was maybe 12.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Movie
  • Read
  • Maybe

• While taking sign language in high school, one of our assignments was to go out and participate in the deaf community, so I really got to know a lot of the group from that. I felt like they needed a little bit more of a voice because people treat them different just because they're hearing impaired.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • People
  • Different
  • School

• When you're young, with less on the line, it's easier to be audacious, to experiment. So I introduced the concerns of my generation - politics, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, etc. - to the comics page, which for many years caused a rolling furor.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Rock
  • Sex
  • Politics

• For that river of red could be the death of me.God, give me strength and keep reminding meThat blood is thicker than water.Oh, but love is thicker than blood.And if blood is thicker than water,Then what are we fighting for?We're all sons and daughtersOf something that means so much more.

  

  Garth Brooks
  • God
  • Death
  • Water

• Nothing that's forced can ever be right, if it doesn't come naturally, leave it.

  

  Al Stewart

• I'm knocking our pitiful, pathetic lawmakers.

  

  Jimmy Swaggart

• I do not think anyone can ever do anything without the help and will of God.

  

  Andrea Bocelli
  • God
  • Help

• I'm not a religious person. My mom was of Jewish blood and my dad was Protestant.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Religious

• It's a long journey. There will be good times, and there will be bad times, but SoftBank is always there.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Good
  • Long
  • Bad

• I don't have a problem with a board that advises, that supervises, one with which we can have a discussion. But we will never accept a board that has control over Puerto Rico's affairs.

  

  Eduardo Bhatia
  • Control

• All my life, everything has been a contest.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • Life

• You almost can't avoid having some version of the multiverse in your studies if you push deeply enough in the mathematical descriptions of the physical universe.

  

  Brian Greene
  • Universe

• When I was a teenager, I used to watch 'Beverly Hills 90210' - which is totally aging myself - and I'd try to recreate the makeup that they did on Jennie Garth at home.

  

  Busy Philipps
  • Home
  • Makeup
  • Teenager

• Women are not weaker. Read that again. Women are not weaker. They are just as strong, just as resolute, just as creative, and are filled with just as much potential as any man.

  

  Brad Meltzer
  • Women
  • Strong

• In the Renaissance, madness was present everywhere and mingled with every experience by its images or its dangers. During the classical period, madness was shown, but on the other side of bars; if present, it was at a distance, under the eyes of a reason that no longer felt any relation to it and that would not compromise itself by too close a resemblance. Madness had become a thing to look at: no longer a monster inside oneself, but an animal with strange mechanisms, a bestiality from which man had long since been suppressed.

  

  Michel Foucault
  • Experience
  • Reason
  • Relation

• If you have seen one of the temples at night, fully lighted, you know what an impressive sight that can be. The house of the Lord, bathed in light, standing out in the darkness, becomes symbolic of the power and the inspiration of the gospel of Jesus Christ standing as a beacon in a world that sinks ever further into spiritual darkness.

  

  Boyd K. Packer
  • Inspiration
  • Darkness
  • Jesus Christ

• Our entire society is rooted around the idea of more, and longer has become the measure of success.

  

  Om Malik
  • Success
  • Society

• It's lack that gives us inspiration. It's not fullness.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Inspiration
  • Fullness