Arsenius the Great Quotes

Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.

Arsenius the Great

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• I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Think
  • Desire
  • Process

• Well, when I was 13, for my bar mitzvah I received my first typewriter. And that was special.

  

  R. L. Stine
  • First
  • Special
  • Bar

• I just want to be myself and be real and be funny.

  

  Bebe Rexha
  • Real
  • Want
  • Funny

• Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Something
  • Almost
  • Reveal

• Change is inevitable. Things absolutely cannot stay the same. The type of change we invoke is up to each and every one of us.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Up
  • Change
  • Same

• Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.

  

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
  • Science
  • Idea
  • Speaking

• If you aren't taking a representative sample, you won't get a representative snapshot.

  

  Nate Silver
  • You
  • Get
  • Representative

• After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.

  

  Gabriel Medina
  • God
  • Family
  • Day

• In India, you see the way they embrace color in the culture - it's very celebratory of the existence of color. There's no rule of what color belongs together or doesn't belong together. They're not precious about it. It's very full-on.

  

  M.I.A.
  • Together
  • Culture
  • Color

• I've spent a lot of time self-reflecting. Especially as an actor, you have to know yourself really well in order to do things effectively. And when I dress, I dress for me. I don't dress to make other people think that I'm this way or that way.

  

  Teddy Sears
  • People
  • Time
  • Me

• It’s very hard to prosper in this modern economy if you haven’t fully unleashed the potential of your people. And your people’s potential, in part, derives from their ability to express themselves and express new ideas, to try to right wrongs that are taking place in the society.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Society

• Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, 'See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk.'

  

  Harry Browne
  • Good
  • Hand

• We are all made of air There's stars in my eyes and there's sun in my hair And I'm runnin' away, it makes me feel better

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Eyes
  • Hair
  • Air

• Wisdom is, I suppose, the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

  

  Charles Spurgeon
  • Great
  • Men
  • Knowledge

• You need three or five hands to play Ligeti.

  

  Alfred Brendel

• The process was remarkably cathartic. I'd sit and listen to my father's voice - having not heard some of these tapes for 30 years and hearing his voice laying me down for a nap, our giggles and cooking dinner - and I remembered all those wonderful days. Normal days.

  

  Jennifer Grant
  • Father
  • Cooking

• I run into so many people who also have psoriasis and share the same feelings as I had. I tell them that it's about being your own boss and of not settling until they find whatever it is that works for them and they have their life look the way they want it to.

  

  Katie Lowes
  • People
  • Life
  • Boss

• The main reason he wanted to be a recording artist was because it gives you much more freedom in your writing. You only have to please the artist and the artist is you so you can be more daring and experimental.

  

  Cynthia Weil
  • Writing
  • Freedom

• One of the really important things about the Olympics is, to enjoy yourself, you have to accept that it's different and feed off the enthusiasm of everyone and the inspiration and hopefully that will elevate your performance.

  

  Bode Miller
  • Inspiration
  • Performance
  • Enthusiasm

• In the world of knowledge, the essential Form of Good is the limit of our inquiries, and can barely be perceived; but, when perceived, we cannot help concluding that it is in every case the source of all that is bright and beautiful -in the visible world giving birth to light and its master, and in the intellectual world dispensing, immediately and with full authority, truth and reason -and that whosoever would act wisely, either in private or in public, must set this Form of Good before his eyes.

  

  Plato
  • Knowledge
  • Master
  • Source

• If God were our one and only desire we would not be so easily upset when our opinions do not find outside acceptance.

  

  Thomas à Kempis
  • God
  • Desire
  • Find

• I still have a lot of military contacts, and friends and readers who've served or are serving, and they react really strongly to G.I. Joe. I've lost count of the number who've said, 'Oh, I just loved it as a kid. I had all the figures; it really made me think.'

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Friends
  • Think
  • Me

• Strive with all your might to bring your interior activity into accord with God, and you will overcome exterior passions.

  

  Arsenius the Great
  • God
  • Activity
  • Passions