Ray Bradbury (Ray Douglas Bradbury) Quotes

The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.

Ray Bradbury

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• 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.

  

  Dana Plato
  • Up
  • Work
  • Growing

• Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • People
  • Fear
  • Meeting

• Realizing full well that fine condition and confidence will not in themselves make a champion, it is my belief, however, that they are essential factors.

  

  Major Taylor
  • Confidence
  • Belief
  • Champion

• Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.

  

  Natalie Massenet
  • Life
  • Work
  • Independence

• The Bauhaus strives to bring together all creative effort into one whole, to reunify all the disciplines of practical art - sculpture, painting, handicrafts, and crafts - as inseparable components of a new architecture.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Art
  • Together
  • Effort

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.

  

  Fiona Shaw
  • Born
  • Generation
  • Decade

• There are some things you can't share without ending up liking each other.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Up
  • You
  • Without

• I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them.

  

  Francesco Carrozzini
  • People
  • Long
  • Done

• It's joyful to give. But for people who want to take advantage of you, you're kind of an easy mark.

  

  Larry King
  • People
  • Want
  • Easy

• Being a fatherIs quite a bother,But I like it, rather.

  

  Ogden Nash

• He begins to think for himself and meets Nineteenth-century Rationalism Which can explain away religion by any number of methods.

  

  C. S. Lewis

• Religiosity distinguishes America from most other Western societies. Americans are also overwhelmingly Christian, which distinguishes them from many non-Western peoples. Their religiosity leads Americans to see the world in terms of good and evil to a much greater extent than most other peoples.

  

  Samuel P. Huntington
  • World
  • Good
  • America

• Good people all, with one acord,Lament for Madame Blaize,Who never wanted a good word —From those who spoke her praise.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • People
  • Good

• The world is all that is the case. (1)

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • World

• I grew up with action movies in my head.

  

  Christian Kane
  • Up
  • Action

• Allan Cubitt has written exceptional material, and I feel very privileged to be working with him and the very talented cast.

  

  Colin Morgan

• Effort should be made to see that the forum-type programs (the 'Today Show,' 'Meet the Press,' etc.) afford at least as much opportunity for supporters of the American system to participate as these programs do for those who attack it.

  

  Lewis F. Powell, Jr.
  • American
  • Today
  • Opportunity

• My strongest audiences are in Germany and France - they stuck with me through my dark days in the '70s.

  

  Joe Cocker
  • Dark

• The greatest evil is not done in those sordid dens of evil that Dickens loved to paint ... but is conceived and ordered (moved, seconded, carried, and minuted) in clear, carpeted, warmed, well-lighted offices, by quiet men with white collars and cut fingernails and smooth-shaven cheeks who do not need to raise their voices.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Men
  • Done
  • Evil

• The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose. An evil soul producing holy witness Is like a villain with a smiling cheek, A goodly apple rotten at the heart. O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Heart
  • Soul
  • Purpose

• With a tone so rich, I would never be afraid of the dark. Steinway is the only and the best!

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Dark
  • Rich
  • Tone

• Intelligence is playing a more important role in policymaker decisions than I think I've ever seen in my time in Congress or before.

  

  Mike Rogers
  • Thinking
  • Important
  • Decision

• The Greek philosophies teach us that we are a combination of dark and light, good and evil, and murderer and savior, hmm? And until we know this completely about ourselves we cannot love well, and we cannot forgive ourselves.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • Evil
  • Dark
  • Philosophy