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

• The taste of any simple tomato-based salad is dependent on the quality of the tomatoes.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Simple
  • Quality
  • Salad

• 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

• When my father died in my arms it had such a profound affect on me that at that very moment when my dad passed I realized that I needed to face my own fears.

  

  Criss Angel
  • Father
  • Dad
  • Profound

• At last, someone came to tell me I'd been selected as commissioner, which gave rise to the line that I took the job with clean hands. I was then taken downstairs to a press conference, and the reporters were as surprised as I was.

  

  Pete Rozelle
  • Job
  • Taken

• I've seen nearly every Encores! show. I love the second acts so much because you just see desperation and inspiration in equal measure.

  

  Douglas Carter Beane
  • Inspiration

• Christ subjected himself to the law of the seed in the earth, to the law of rest and growth. He was "one of the children of the year," growing through rest, secret in his mothers womb, receiving the warmth of the sun through her, living the life of dependence, helplessness, littleness, darkness, and silence which, by a mystery of the Eternal Law, is the life of natural growth.

  

  Caryll Houselander
  • Children
  • Mother
  • Faith

• Wilderness, to me, is a spiritual necessity. The mysterious spiritual experience of being close to natural restored my soul after the death of his son. My experience reinforced by dedication to use the art of photography as an inspiration for others to work together to save nature's places of spiritual sanctuary for future generations.

  

  Clyde Butcher
  • Art
  • Soul
  • Spiritual

• I have written a considerable amount - both fiction and nonfiction - about the Caribbean. My love for this part of the world is centered on a deep admiration for its people - a people who are both tough and romantic, dreamers and cynics, people who face a thousand defeats and are never defeated.

  

  Mark Kurlansky
  • People
  • World
  • Deep

• Electing clean-energy leaders into the Senate, the House, and the Oval Office - and getting it done in the next few years - is the only real solution to climate stabilization at acceptable levels.

  

  Eban Goodstein
  • Leaders
  • Solution
  • Climate

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

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Inspiration
  • Fullness