Betty Sue Flowers Quotes

When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.

Betty Sue Flowers

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• Any people attempting to govern themselves by laws of their own making, and by officers of their own appointment, are in direct rebellion against the kingdom of God.

  

  Orson Pratt
  • People
  • God
  • Rebellion

• Nothing is so common-place as to wish to be remarkable.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Wish
  • Nothing
  • Remarkable

• My favorite animal is steak.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Food
  • Animal
  • Steak

• This country is pretty amazing.

  

  Zach Anner
  • Country
  • Pretty
  • Amazing

• My sister and I said, Dad, are you doing to do anything about that? And he mentioned treatments other people sent him that he'd been working on. So we thought it would be kind of cool to give these guys a real script.

  

  Rae Dawn Chong
  • People
  • Real
  • Dad

• I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Genetics

• I'm comfortable in the locker room situation, so whatever.

  

  Natalie Coughlin
  • Situation
  • Comfortable
  • Room

• Es ist so bequem, unmündig zu sein. Habe ich ein Buch, das für mich Verstand hat, einen Seelsorger, der für mich Gewissen hat, einen Arzt, der für mich die Diät beurtheilt u. s. w., so brauche ich mich ja nicht selbst zu bemühen. Ich habe nicht nöthig zu denken, wenn ich nur bezahlen kann.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Die

• To convince someone of the truth, it is not enough to state it, but rather one must find the path from error to truth.

  

  Ludwig Wittgenstein
  • Truth
  • Path

• I'm the ugly sister. I'm the fat one. I'm the transvestite. I have had those mean things said about me at least twice a day for the last five years. It's horrible, you know? But I can brush that stuff off.

  

  Khloe Kardashian
  • Sister
  • Ugly

• There are things I can't force. I must adjust. There are times when the greatest change needed is a change of my viewpoint.

  

  Denis Diderot

• To be interested in short stories, you have to be interested in fiction as an art form.

  

  Deborah Eisenberg
  • Art

• I've changed my life in a lot of ways. I'm a mom, a wife, and a Christian. Some of the things I expressed in my early 20s aren't what I care to express right now.

  

  Cheryl James
  • Life
  • Wife
  • Mom

• Paris is a wonderful city. I can't say I belong to an especially anglophone community.

  

  Marilyn Hacker
  • Community
  • City
  • Paris

• Sometimes people have questioned whether I was making fun of the industry or just at myself. I'm just trying to raise a smile. Clothes aren't meant to be worshipped at a church altar.

  

  Jeremy Scott
  • People
  • Trying
  • Fun

• The one size fits all approach of standardized testing is convenient but lazy.

  

  James Dyson
  • Lazy

• It wasn't the first reality show, but 'Survivor' was the first big network hit, and I'm proud to have played a part in that history as the winner of season six, 'Survivor: Amazon.'

  

  Jenna Morasca
  • History
  • Reality
  • Proud

• I learned the major difference between college and pro football. In the pros, you're up against a top receiver almost every minute of time. In college, maybe one comes along every third game.

  

  Burgess Owens
  • Up
  • Time
  • Game

• If government could create jobs and raise children, socialism would have worked.

  

  George Gilder
  • Children
  • Government
  • Socialism

• Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness loom huge in my development as a writer. I think I'm always trying to write Heart of Darkness - trying to explode an abstraction in concrete terms, although I am aware that Conrad's story has a bit of baggage that I'd rather avoid in my work.

  

  Sabina Murray
  • Work
  • Thinking
  • Writing

• I really believe that Donald Trump is so polarizing even within the Republican Party that he will fail to have a majority if he is, in fact, our nominee. I think he will be shredded by the Democrats based on the opposition research that's there.

  

  Scott Rigell
  • Believe
  • Thinking
  • Party

• Who are the learned? Those who practice what they know.

  

  Elijah Muhammad
  • Know
  • Practice
  • Learned

• It was the mid-'70s when I realized it wasn't going off the air. I certainly didn't set out to have a series rerun forever, but it's not a bad experience at all.

  

  Bob Denver
  • Experience
  • Bad
  • Forever

• When your practice has led you to experiences that you can't understand, you need a better theory. Otherwise, if you try to understand these transcendent experiences with 'profane' or, we might say, 'materialistic' ways of thinking, your cultivation will be set back.

  

  Betty Sue Flowers
  • Thinking
  • Practice
  • Experiences