Mircea Eliade Quotes
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.Mircea Eliade
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We are asleep with compasses in our hands.
W. S. Merwin -
Smaller wrestlers are built for more exciting matches.
Daniel Bryan -
I'm such a boots-jeans-tops-blazer girl.
Yvonne Strahovski -
If you compare me to an actor, I'm probably one of the best boxers in the profession. But if you compare me as a boxer, I'm probably one of the best actors.
Olivier Martinez -
Happiness is knowing and appreciating what you've got. I am very, very, very grateful for what, to me, is dead easy.
Maeve Binchy -
Orthodox Christianity, by playing upon the emotions of man, is able to accomplish wonders toward keeping him in order and relieving his mind. It can frighten or cajole him away from evil more effectively than could reason.
H. P. Lovecraft
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I'm not a god - I do bad things.
Jackie Chan -
I was the first to advocate the Web. But I am very troubled by this thing that every kid must have a laptop computer. The kids are totally in the computer age. There's a whole new brain operation that's being moulded by the computer.
Camille Paglia -
I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
Kate Williams -
I like my hands. They do most of the talking.
Abbey Lee Kershaw -
Writing lyrics is part spontaneous, intuitive and part really thought through and carefully analyzed as you write it. It's a mixture of two approaches, and I imagine writing anything is like that, really. Some of it just flows, and you just go with it.
Ian Anderson -
Novels taught me that history is dramatic. I wanted my students to know that, too.
Laura Amy Schlitz
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His mother should have thrown him out and kept the stork.
Mae West -
Among the rednecks of America, which there are many more than people seem to realize, it was terribly damaging. I got blamed for O.J.'s acquittal.
F. Lee Bailey -
I've always been very fond of animals.
Victoria Pendleton -
I had a good imagination and I still have one; a child-like imagination that hasn't gone away.
Laura Linney -
I really hate rubber ducks, actually.
Florentijn Hofman -
When people come up to me and say, 'You made it,' I think, 'But I'm not done yet. Not everyone's heard my music.' I want to be a household name.
Mandy Moore
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I have done a lot of work internally to find out who I am, what voice Eamonn Walker has and how he wants to put it out there.
Eamonn Walker -
Everyone has a dream deep in their heart, which is a center of what they want to do. If they had all the money, and they had the time and they were guaranteed that they'd be successful, that dream is what they would love to do.
Bruce Wilkinson -
I was prom king. Which is actually saying I was the sixth most popular, because the five who were on homecoming were automatically disqualified from prom, so of course I have to look at it that way.
Andy Richter -
I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.
Elisabeth Shue -
It is no religion to have for one's wife a girl who is fit only to sit in one's lap, it is the height of irreligion.
Mahatma Gandhi -
The great cosmic illusion is a hierophany.... One is devoured by Time, not because one lives in Time, but because one believes in its reality, and therefore forgets or despises eternity.
Mircea Eliade