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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• People are not really that forgiving when they pay for tickets to come see you and you don't show up.

  

  Yelawolf
  • People
  • Up
  • You

• 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

• I started singing in pubs and clubs around Belfast when I was 10. My dad is a musician, and he took me 'round; I impersonated Tina Turner and Shirley Bassey, and the crowd couldn't believe what was coming out of this little girl.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Believe
  • Girl
  • Dad

• 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

• The boy is special, Aunt Annie told his mother, and his mother in turn told him. But what kind of special? No one ever says.

  

  J. M. Coetzee
  • Mother
  • Boy
  • Aunt

• 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

• My evil genius Procrastination has whispered me to tarry 'til a more convenient season.

  

  Mary Todd Lincoln
  • Evil
  • Procrastination

• By willing endurance we cause suffering to pass. Evil becomes a spent force when we put up no resistance. By refusing to pay back the enemy with his own coin, and preferring to suffer without resistance, the Christian exhibits the sinfulness of contumely and insult. Violence stands condemned by its failure to evoke counter-violence.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Up
  • Evil
  • Christian

• Don't worry, if there is a hell below, we're all going to go.

  

  Curtis Mayfield
  • Evil
  • Worry
  • Hell

• The moon is dark, and the gods dance in the night; there is terror in the sky, for upon the moon hath sunk an eclipse foretold in no books of men or of earth's gods.

  

  H. P. Lovecraft
  • Men
  • Night
  • Earth

• The holy land was supposed to be spotless, a serious equivalent of Disneyland in which not a single candy wrapper is to stay on the ground for more than a few minutes.

  

  Marvin Olasky
  • Single
  • Serious
  • Candy

• 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