Ananda Coomaraswamy Quotes

From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

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• I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

  

  W. P. Kinsella
  • Pretty
  • Enjoy
  • Doing

• I have this view that losing weight is easy, keeping it off is hard because keeping it off is the discipline.

  

  Barry O'Farrell
  • Discipline
  • Losing
  • View

• I'd have to say that my favorite thing is writing a song that really says how I feel, what I believe - and it even explains the world to myself better than I knew it.

  

  Jackson Browne
  • World
  • Believe
  • Writing

• That's it then. Cancel the kitchen scraps for lepers and orphans, no more merciful beheadings, and call off Christmas.

  

  Alan Rickman
  • Christmas
  • Kitchen
  • Merciful

• Face the giants in your life, slay them, and move on. Do not be daunted by the mistakes and failures in your life.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life

• It's really hard to teach me anything. I can't read music. I never learned how to read music. I read books about things and try to learn - I don't like to learn from anybody. Later on I would, once I'd get the hang of things. Like I ride horses, I'm good at that, Western riding. I learned all about it reading and studying. I'm always learning about horses, I like that.

  

  Don McLean
  • Good
  • Music
  • Trying

• God is equipping you, protecting you, & readying you to fight for the mission He has given you to change the world.

  

  Paige Omartian
  • World
  • God
  • Fighting

• You know, it's no accident that the great painters came from areas like Europe where there is a lot of clouds and rain, which begets color and subtle washes of tone. Most great graphic artists come from areas with prevalent sun, where line and shadow are paramount.

  

  Al Hirschfeld
  • Great
  • Artist
  • Color

• You need to identify the steps at which contamination can occur - those are the critical control points. You take steps to make sure that that doesn't happen. And you monitor and evaluate and test to make sure that your system is working properly. And if it's done diligently and done faithfully and monitored carefully, then they're producing safe food. And no astronaut of which I'm aware has ever gotten food poisoning in outer space.

  

  Marion Nestle
  • Done
  • Food
  • Control

• He's certainly welcome to bring us any kind of information he can. I think just the fact that he is coming might spur some interest in the community.

  

  Jeff Long
  • Community
  • Interest
  • Information

• There is nothing permanent in the world except change.

  

  Heraclitus
  • World
  • Change
  • Permanent

• Time was not passing...it was turning in a circle.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez

• This is my favorite book in all the world, though I have never read it.

  

  William Goldman
  • World
  • Book
  • Favorite

• A history of perceived humiliation, after all, lurks behind many acts of terror. And competing narratives of victimhood and insults sustain conflicts in the Balkans, the Caucasus, the Middle East and many other regions.

  

  Serge Schmemann
  • Conflict
  • Terror
  • Insult

• Many of those who are humiliated are not humble. Some react to humiliation with anger, others with patience, and others with freedom. The first are culpable, the next harmless, the last just.

  

  Bernard of Clairvaux
  • Freedom
  • Anger
  • Humiliation

• The U.S. is becoming an increasingly fatherless society. A generation ago, an American child could reasonably expect to grow up with his or her father. Today an American child can reasonably expect not to. Fatherlessness is now approaching a rough parity with fatherhood as a defining feature of American childhood.

  

  David Blankenhorn
  • Children
  • Growing
  • Childhood

• That's what character is, it's in the trying.

  

  Eric Taylor
  • Character

• From one point of view becoming is a humiliation, and from another a royal procession.

  

  Ananda Coomaraswamy
  • Becoming
  • Humiliation
  • Procession