African Spir Quotes

Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto ("les engagements contractés", Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly ("éventuellement", Fr.) in another.

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• Like some of my other movies, 'Conquest Of The Planet Of The Apes' is also a very political film, and many critics still consider it even the best of all the Apes movies, because it conveys a series of political viewpoints.

  

  J. Lee Thompson
  • Political
  • Best
  • Movies

• Personal responsibility is not only recognizing the errors of our ways. Personal responsibility lies in our willingness and ability to correct those errors individually and collectively.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Responsibility
  • Lies
  • Ability

• I suppose I could have sat back and pitied myself. For a time I wondered if I'd ever be able to go on to a stage and perform again. After a couple of weeks I began to feel I could fight my way back to health if I put my mind to it. I thought to myself: 'Pity never did anybody any good. Go on. Patsy, show 'em what you can do'

  

  Patsy Cline
  • Time
  • Good
  • Mind

• I don't differentiate much, except in degree, between people who believe in religion from those who believe in astrology, magic or the supernatural.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • People
  • Believe
  • Magic

• I talk to my typewriter and that is what I've been working on for 40 years-how to write for talking.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Working
  • Talking
  • Typewriter

• I think one of the lessons of the Depression - and this is something that Franklin Roosevelt demonstrated - was that when orthodoxy fails, then you need to try new things. And he was very willing to try unorthodox approaches when the orthodox approach had shown that it was not adequate.

  

  Ben Bernanke
  • Depression
  • Lessons
  • Franklin Roosevelt

• We feel more emotion... before an amateur photograph linked to our own life history than before the work of a Great Photographer, because his domain partakes of art, and the intent of the souvenir-object remains at the lower level of personal history.

  

  Chris Marker
  • Life
  • Work
  • Great

• Doing mode is not an enemy to be defeated, but is often an ally. Doing mode only becomes a “problem” when it volunteers for a task that it cannot do, such as “solving” a troubling emotion. When this happens, it pays to “shift gear” into “Being” mode. This is what mindfulness gives us: the ability to shift gears as we need to, rather than being permanently stuck in the same one.

  

  Mark Williams
  • Problem
  • Enemy
  • Emotion

• Virginia Woolf said that writers must be androgynous. I'll go a step further. You must be bisexual.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Said
  • Steps
  • Bisexual

• A man must learn to understand the motives of human beings, their illusions, and their sufferings.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Man
  • Understand
  • Illusions

• Be careful who you choose as your enemy because that's who you become most like.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Enemy
  • Choose
  • Careful

• My older sister has entire kingdoms inside of her, and some of them are only accessible at certain seasons, in certain kinds of weather.

  

  Karen Russell
  • Certain
  • Older
  • Seasons

• Illness is a clumsy attempt to arrive at health: we must come to nature's aid with intellect.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Intellect
  • Illness
  • Arrive

• Tradition is no longer a continuity but a series of sharp breaks. The modern tradition is the tradition of revolt.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Break
  • Modern
  • Tradition

• Thanks to the leadership of Vice President Gore, we have a government for the Information Age, once again a government that is a progressive instrument of the common good, rooted in our oldest values of opportunity, responsibility and community, devoted to fiscal responsibility, determined to give our people the tools they need to make the most of their own lives in the 21st century, a 21st century government for 21st century America.

  

  Bill Clinton
  • Government
  • Leadership
  • Information Age

• Infringing upon (or encroaching) the right of a single person, we overthrow (or turn upside down) the whole order on which rest legal agreements; for if we break (or transgress or violate) the undertakings enter unto ("les engagements contractés", Fr.), nothing assure that we will not break them, possibly ("éventuellement", Fr.) in another.

  

  African Spir
  • Break
  • Agreements
  • Infringing