Thomas Nagel Quotes

Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

Thomas Nagel

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• I'll tell you sort of an odd story: My music taste changed on 9/11. And it's very strange. I actually intellectually find this very curious. But on 9/11, I didn't like how rock music responded. And country music collectively, the way they responded, it resonated with me.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Music
  • Story
  • Strange

• The people of South Africa are ready to stand up to the oppressions of the Pretoria regime, and they are ready to fight back.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Up
  • Fight

• You will never cease to be the most amazed person on earth at what God has done for you on the inside.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • God
  • Done
  • Earth

• My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Done

• The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Light
  • Like
  • Spiritual

• We don't grow older, we grow riper.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Grow
  • Older

• I have everything that I could possibly want in life, from a gorgeous granddaughter and a wonderful wife, brilliant students, the best job anyone could hope for, and about half of my hair. Not the half I would have kept, but no one consulted me.

  

  Daniel Gilbert
  • Life
  • Job
  • Hope

• Your belief system tends to be a function of how you were raised. Being raised in the Midwest and in a relatively conservative household, my views were shaped by my upbringing, by my Christian faith.

  

  Aaron Schock
  • Faith
  • Christian
  • Belief

• If I were governor, and a bill came to my desk that provided for background checks at gun shows, I would sign that.

  

  Wendy Davis
  • Gun
  • Background
  • Desk

• There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.

  

  Van Morrison
  • Life
  • Black
  • Black-and-white

• Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • You
  • Care
  • Internet

• The white man, in his press, is going to identify me with 'hate.'

  

  Malcolm X
  • Man
  • Hate
  • Me

• I grew up in a very strong, nuclear family. My father was a sportsman. He represented South Africa in a couple of sports, so he was a very positive person and someone who encouraged you to be your best and give your best with everything that you do.

  

  Gail Kelly
  • Up
  • Family
  • Father

• The poet is the priest of the invisible.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Poet
  • Invisible
  • Priest

• With Geoffrey, it was the first time we did music together, we understood that everything could be well, and without any problem. And we didn't need to rehearse too much.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Time
  • Music
  • Together

• Truthfully, I've never seen myself as being too thin. Sometimes I'll look at photos and be like, 'Oh, that's not a good look.' But generally speaking, I'm not too thin.

  

  Rachel Zoe
  • Good
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• And I think we created something incredible as a Democratic group, as a platform, as an effort to make a change in the country, and I think we did change this country. And I think we will continue to, and I know that my father is not going to stop fighting.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Country
  • Father
  • Change

• She waits for me; my lady Earth, Smiles and waits and sighs;I'll say her nay, and hide away, Then take her by surprise.

  

  Rain
  • She
  • Earth

• I knew as well as anyone that the priests taught what they wanted us to know, not necessarily what was true. And sometimes even when they told the truth, they got it wrong.

  

  N. K. Jemisin
  • Truth
  • True

• I've never met a person I couldn't call a beauty.

  

  Andy Warhol

• We were just at the beginnings of a recovery [in 2010]. And the, you know, whoever is president at that point is gonna get hit and his party's gonna get hit. That then means that suddenly you've got a redistricting in which a lot of state legislatures are now Republican. They draw lines that give a huge structural advantage in subsequent elections.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Party
  • Recovery

• Language is a part of our organism and no less complicated than it.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

• Move on up towards your destination

  

  Curtis Mayfield
  • Up
  • Moving
  • Destination

• Each of our lives is a part of the lengthy process of the universe gradually waking up and becoming aware of itself.

  

  Thomas Nagel
  • Life
  • Universe
  • Process