Nicholas of Cusa Quotes

In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

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• I do not have the angst and the anxiety of my youth. I've gotten to a place where I'm very comfortable with who I am.

  

  Walton Goggins
  • Place
  • Anxiety
  • Youth

• I believe that I have been basically anarchistic, anti-religion and anti-industry and business. In other words, anti-bureaucracy. I would like to see people behave well without having to have priests stand by, politicians stand by, or people collecting bills.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • People
  • Believe
  • Business

• It's not like I go out there to be a sex symbol. I mean, it's nice of course - but embarrassing.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Nice
  • Mean
  • Sex

• I know people from working with them on films, but they're not the ones I would meet up with... I'm just a normal person!

  

  Dakota Blue Richards
  • People
  • Up
  • Know

• First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • You
  • Drink
  • New Years

• I'm usually cast for the more goofy and tomboyish characters.

  

  Yael Grobglas
  • More
  • Cast
  • Goofy

• I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • School
  • High
  • Senior

• If people are able to run the affairs of a village well, eventually they'll be able to run a township, and a county.

  

  Wen Jiabao
  • People
  • Run
  • Village

• At the national level, I don't know how to describe a threat to destroy Country A in order to punish Country B other than to call it state terrorism.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Country
  • Know
  • How

• It will be difficult to finish my career here. I don't know if I am going to end it at Barcelona, although I would like to. I don't know what is going to happen.

  

  Xavi
  • Career
  • Finish
  • Barcelona

• Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay.

  

  Amy Hempel
  • Good
  • Men
  • Women

• I think that overall, the position - on a whole host of issues - should always be toward inclusion and equality.

  

  Loretta Lynch
  • Equality

• Police officers, firefighters, EMTs - they are all out there every single day - literally just a phone call away for anyone who needs them.

  

  Doreen Cronin
  • Single
  • Police

• A default on our debts as a result of not meeting our obligations would be a disaster for the stock market, and Americans would see their retirement funds shrivel up.

  Charles B. Rangel
  • Up
  • Stock
  • Retirement

• What I've been surprised by is not how different people are, but how similar they are. There are certain types of Airbnb people, and they are in every city in the world - it's just that in some cultures, there is more of a generational divide.

  

  Brian Chesky
  • People
  • World
  • Different

• I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

  

  Jo Nesbo
  • Time
  • Bad

• A lot of people don't give their audiences credit. You can leave it a little mysterious. They can think about it.

  

  David Leitch
  • People
  • Mysterious

• Ninety-five percent of celebrity is good.

  

  Kevin Bacon
  • Good
  • Celebrity

• For success, the author must make the reader care about the destiny of the principals, and sustain this anxiety, or suspense, for about 100,000 words.

  

  Ken Follett
  • Success
  • Words
  • Destiny

• My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

  

  Alex Colville
  • Painting
  • Element
  • Disparate

• After only two or three weeks in office, we discovered we had a backlog of 100,000 emails sent to me. We had a backlog of a thousand invitations to speak at places all over the country - and all over the world, for that matter.

  

  Jeremy Corbyn
  • World
  • Country

• 'They're drunk sods, sir, but they're the best Soldiers in the world. The very best.' And he meant it. They were the elite, the damned, the Rifles. They were Soldiers in green. They were Sharpe's Rifles.

  

  Bernard Cornwell
  • World
  • Green
  • Drunk

• By my definition, prayer is consciously hanging out with God. Being with God in a deliberate way.

  

  Malcolm Boyd
  • God
  • Way
  • Prayer

• In creating the world, God used arithmetic, geometry, and likewise astronomy.

  

  Nicholas of Cusa
  • World
  • Geometry
  • Astronomy