Salvador Dali Quotes

What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

Salvador Dali

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• I feel so gratified about having finished college. I learned how to articulate myself. It gave me confidence more than anything. And also the ability to analyze the text.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
  • College
  • Myself
  • Confidence

• I fell in love with Rwanda the moment I saw those verdant, rolling hills rise up beneath the wings of the plane as we descended toward Kigali airport.

  

  Naomi Benaron
  • Moment
  • Wings
  • Plane

• Before I had my first child, I never really looked forward in anticipation to the future. As I watched my son grow and learn, I began to imagine the world this generation of children would live in. I thought of the children they would have, and of their children. I felt connected to life both before my time and beyond it. Children are our link to future generations that we will never see.

  

  Louise Hart
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• No matter what they take from me, they can't take away my dignity.

  

  George Benson
  • inspirational
  • Matter
  • Dignity

• Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.

  

  Hans Kung
  • Law
  • Church
  • Dating

• Always hire people who are better than you. Hiring dummies is shortsighted. You can't move up the ladder until everyone is comfortable with your replacement.

  

  Lois Wyse
  • People
  • Up
  • Business

• I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless, It is not an empty mind.

  

  Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
  • Mind
  • Empty
  • Empty Mind

• Secretly, deep down, everybody on Earth believes they can write poetry, apart from the members of the Poets' Guild, who know they can't.

  

  Tom Holt
  • Earth
  • Poetry
  • Deep

• We are all prisoners at one time or another in our lives, prisoners to ourselves or to the expectations of those around us. It is a burden that all people endure, that all people despise, and that few people ever learn to escape.

  

  R. A. Salvatore
  • People
  • Time
  • Expectations

• In language that's lyrical and haunting, Cheryl Strayed writes about bliss and loss, about the kind of grace that startles and transforms us in ordinary moments.

  

  Ursula Hegi
  • Writing
  • Moments
  • Grace

• I wish someone would have told me that, just because I'm a girl, I don't have to get married.

  

  Marlo Thomas
  • Girl
  • Wish
  • Married

• I have never seen anything like that. It was pretty impressive.

  

  Phil Jackson
  • Pretty
  • Impressive

• Arts, crafts and sciences uplift the world of being, and are conducive to its exaltation. Knowledge is as wings to man's life, and a ladder for his ascent. Its acquisition is incumbent upon everyone.

  

  Bahá'u'lláh
  • Life
  • World
  • Knowledge

• Not sure how to pursue that while remaining woke.

  

  Alan Lee
  • Pursue
  • Remaining
  • Woke

• Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.

  

  George Washington
  • Liberty
  • Confusion
  • Tyranny

• The thing about democracy, beloveds, is that it is not neat, orderly, or quiet. It requires a certain relish for confusion.

  

  Molly Ivins
  • Democracy
  • Quiet
  • Confusion

• How I treat a brother or sister from day to day, how I react to the sin-scarred wino on the street, how I respond to interruptions from people I dislike, how I deal with normal people in their normal confusion on a normal day may be a better indication of my reverence for life than the antiabortion sticker on the bumper of my car.

  

  Brennan Manning
  • Car
  • Sin
  • Treat

• What is important is to spread confusion, not eliminate it.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Confusion
  • Spread
  • Eliminate