Nicholas of Cusa Quotes

The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

Nicholas of Cusa

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• I do Athlete Devotion throughout all my fight camps. I am a Christian, so I fight with God first, and I have my devotions with me everywhere I go.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • God
  • Christian
  • Fight

• I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.

  

  Nancy Farmer
  • Live
  • America
  • Environment

• I think some people forget sometimes I do have to go to the grocery store; I do enjoy going out to dinner. I have to get my oil changed from time to time. I do all the normal things. I cut my grass. People kind of forget that normal part, that we do a lot of the stuff that everybody else does, but we all have our talents, and mine is in football.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • People
  • Time
  • Football

• Act because you love to act.

  

  Mae Whitman
  • Love
  • You
  • Act

• But eventually it is a game of cricket.

  

  Sachin Tendulkar
  • Game
  • Cricket
  • Eventually

• I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Writing
  • Singing
  • Dreams

• Custom adapts itself to expediency.

  

  Tacitus
  • Custom
  • Itself
  • Expediency

• My father was an outfielder in the Milwaukee system before he hurt his elbow.

  

  Oscar Taveras
  • Father
  • Hurt
  • Elbow

• Where I come from it was really unheard of to be at a party and someone says, 'What kind of music do you make?', and you say, 'Pop music.' You may as well have 'I'm not cool' stamped on your forehead.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Music
  • May
  • Party

• Pioneer women were very tough - they had to be, because the men go off for long periods of time, and the women would have to be able to protect themselves and their homes.

  

  Haley Bennett
  • Time
  • Men
  • Long

• For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Mom

• Why consider debates in the English House of Commons in 1628 along with documents on American developments in the late eighteenth century? The juxtaposition is not capricious, because the Commons during this period generated many of the ideas that were later embodied in the government of the United States.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Why
  • American
  • House

• Each time I write a new piece, whether a novel, a picture book, a speech or anything, really, it has so much to do with what I'm going through personally or a problem I'm trying to work out. When I wrote my novel 'Baby,' my three children had all just gone out the door.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Time
  • Work
  • Children

• The best part about being friends with your parents is that no matter what you do, they have to keep loving you.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Friends
  • Parents
  • Best

• I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • People
  • End
  • Doing

• Man has to awaken to wonder - and so perhaps do peoples. Science is a way of sending him to sleep again.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Science
  • Sleep
  • Wonder

• We see the most striking example of humility in the lamb which will submit to any animal; and when they are given for food to imprisoned lions they are as gentle to them as to their own mother, so that very often it has been seen that the lions forbear to kill them.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Mother
  • Food
  • Animal

• I think about God, yes, and I wonder if there is a God. And if there is a God, will God please help me through my hard trips.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • God
  • Help
  • Wonder

• Elvis might have compromised his musical style a bit towards the end, but that doesn't mean that artists from the rock n' roll/folk-roots culture - of which he was not really a part - shouldn't get better as they get older, like the great jazz or blues artists.

  

  Bonnie Raitt
  • Great
  • Culture
  • Style

• I tried writing out a plot with the second or third novel I wrote, and it was so boring, so desperately boring.

  

  Philip Pullman
  • Writing

• Simulated disorder postulates perfect discipline; simulated fear postulates courage; simulated weakness postulates strength.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Fear
  • Perfect
  • Courage

• There is no reason whatever to believe that the order of nature has any greater bias in favour of man than it had in favour of the ichthyosaur or the pterodactyl.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Believe
  • Nature

• If I could summarize my suggestions to parents over the past twenty-five years it would be: worry less, criticize less, preach less, listen more, have more fun, be more honest with your own feelings, develop your own joys and friendships, and don't sweat the small stuff (which is nearly everything). The goal is not to be a perfect parent, because no such thing exists. The hope is to be a good enough parent so that your child leaves home a responsible adult who can take care of him or herself.

  

  Charlotte Kasl
  • Good
  • Home
  • Fun

• The fact is that man has no longing for any other nature but desires only to be perfect in his own.

  

  Nicholas of Cusa
  • Nature
  • Perfect
  • Desires