Arthur Zajonc Quotes
Is it possible to be alive, active in the world, and yet have such calm, such kind of inner openness and presence that one can lead a life, at least in part, that is an expression of that quality of meditative quiescence that's on the one hand quite alert and on the other hand, completely at ease, completely at rest.Arthur Zajonc
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I like to discover new things.
Olivier Megaton -
Carrie-Anne Moss is awesome. I am just going to put that out there.
Yvonne Strahovski -
When the curtain falls, the best thing an actor can do is to go away.
Harold MacMillan -
Everything starts as somebody's daydream.
Larry Niven -
It's a very fascinating thing for an actor to play somebody who is suffering, and you have to express the suffering, but in an inarticulate way and sometimes a dysfunctional way, through violence.
Eddie Marsan -
People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly.
Irwin Shaw
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Mars, when guilty of homicide, and set free from the charge of murder by the Athenians through favour, lest he should appear to be too fierce and savage, committed adultery with Venus.
Lactantius -
When you're on set, the crew are like your family because you see them every day, six days a week.
Naomie Harris -
I tell my wife she is only the third most important thing after my country and my parents, in that order.
Mahendra Singh Dhoni -
A dictum Beckett quotes from his favourite philosopher, the second-generation Cartesian Arnold Geulincx (1624-1669) suggests his overall stance toward the political: ubi nihil vales, ibi nihil velis, which may be glossed: Don’t invest hope or longing in an arena where you have no power.
J. M. Coetzee -
Homer tells us also that Sisyphus had put Death in chains. Pluto could not endure the sight of his deserted, silent empire. He dispatched the god of war, who liberated Death from the hands of her conqueror.
Albert Camus -
When I am at home, I never go near the synagogue unless, say, there is a bar or bat mitzvah involving the children of friends. But when I am traveling, in a country where Jewish life is scarce or endangered, I often make a visit to the shul.
Christopher Hitchens
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If I put on a few pounds, it goes straight to my butt.
Cindy Crawford -
A loser doesn't know what he'll do if he loses, but talks about what he'll do if he wins, and a winner doesn't talk about what he'll do if he wins, but knows what he'll do if he loses.
Eric Berne -
If global oil prices or commodity prices are high, then it is bound to create inflation. So, we should not be too worried if the inflation is created by global commodity prices. When they come down, inflation will automatically come down.
Adi Godrej -
I'm definitely more understanding of people who have disabilities and who are suffering.
Kevin Sorbo -
Without any assistance whatever, I founded a school in Weimar in 10 years. Only I could perform certain works with the scanty means that I dared not ask anyone else to work with.
Franz Liszt -
Something is always simple until you try it.
Craig Bruce
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He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez -
We believe this is a crucial next step in revealing what was improper and getting money back to shareholders who lost money.
Eliot Spitzer -
I'd say many features of string theory don't mesh with what we observe in everyday life.
Brian Greene -
The flesh is at the heart of the world.
Maurice Merleau-Ponty -
Is it possible to be alive, active in the world, and yet have such calm, such kind of inner openness and presence that one can lead a life, at least in part, that is an expression of that quality of meditative quiescence that's on the one hand quite alert and on the other hand, completely at ease, completely at rest.
Arthur Zajonc