Christopher Ricks Quotes

I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse

Christopher Ricks

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• Self
• Impulse
• Cult
• Disassociate

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• I cannot be much pleased without an appearance of truth; at least of possibility I wish the history to be natural though the sentiments are refined; and the characters to be probable, though their behaviour is excelling.

  

  Frances Burney
  • Truth
  • History
  • Wish

• We have to give feminism a shot. Out of sheer self preservation, we have to stand aside and let women run the show.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Women
  • Self
  • Stand

• You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.

  

  Barbara Sher
  • Life
  • Up
  • Dream

• I wish I didn't have to perform 'Iron Man' every night.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Night
  • Man
  • Wish

• If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Change
  • Wish
  • Child

• And who knows? Somewhere out there in this audience may even be someone who will one day follow my footsteps, and preside over the White House as the president's spouse. I wish him well!

  

  Barbara Bush
  • May
  • House
  • Wish

• Beauty is what attracts men naturally, but really I think we dress for other women, not necessarily for men. We torture ourselves every single day, and I wish that we wouldn't because we should all just get along, really.

  

  Odette Annable
  • Men
  • Women
  • Wish

• I wish I could say I was one of those people who loves working out, but I don't; it's just not that fun. But I make an effort to work out aggressively three times a week.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • People
  • Work
  • Fun

• The intellectual takes as a starting point his self and relates the world to his own sensibilities; the scientist accepts an existing field of knowledge and seeks to map out the unexplored terrain.

  

  Daniel Bell
  • World
  • Knowledge
  • Self

• I wish that only three residents of Tel Aviv could see what conditions on the West Bank are like. Living in such proximity, most Israelis have no idea about the adversity on the West Bank.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Wish
  • Adversity
  • I Wish

• One isn't born one's self. One is born with a mass of expectations, a mass of other people's ideas - and you have to work through it all.

  

  V. S. Naipaul
  • People
  • Work
  • Ideas

• I express Catalonia's wish of being in the E.U. We'll see what happens.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Wish
  • See
  • Express

• With the divine Knowledge of Advaita (non-duality) in you, do whatever you wish; for then no evil can ever come out of you.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • Knowledge
  • Wish
  • Evil

• In fact, Mr. Watson, it's a queer world, and the longer I live in it the queerer I find it. Once I thought it would be a good idea to regulate things myself and run the world as it ought to be run; but I gave it up long ago. The world's a stage, they say; but the show ain't always amusing, by a long chalk, and sometimes I wish I didn't have a reserved seat.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • Up
  • World
  • Good

• The world increasingly allows girls to be whoever they wish to be- homemaker, mother, secretary, executive.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • World
  • Mother
  • Wish

• All of us wish we had an Alice. I wish I had an Alice.

  

  Ann B. Davis
  • Wish

• Acquisitiveness – the wish to possess as much as possible of goods, or the title to goods – is a motive which, I suppose, has its origin in a combination of fear with the desire for necessaries.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Fear
  • Desire
  • Wish

• I wish I could finish stories as fast as you can. I am much obliged to you for the sight of Olivia, and think you have done for her very well; but the good-for-nothing father, who was the real author of all her faults and sufferings, should not escape unpunished. I hope he hung himself, or took the surname of Bone or underwent some direful penance or other.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Good
  • Real
  • Done

• What kind of people do we wish to become, and how do we know an American when we see one? Is it possible to pursue a common purpose without a common history or a standard text?

  

  Lewis H. Lapham
  • People
  • American
  • History

• I have always been interested in having people fall into the image and be aware of their reaction first, and then think about the style.

  

  Damian Loeb
  • People
  • Think
  • Fall

• I never came across anyone in whom the moral sense was dominant who was not heartless, cruel, vindictive, log-stupid, and entirely lacking in the smallest sense of humanity. Moral people, as they are termed, are simple beasts.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Stupid
  • Sense

• The message of 'The Distance To Here' is no secret. It is a message of love and an invitation to myself and to those who want to come along to ask the big questions and not feel uncool doing it.

  

  Ed Kowalczyk
  • Distance

• Usually directors hire me because I'm what they are looking for. But once in a while, and it's very rare, they will hire me and then try to make me over.

  

  Christopher Walken

• I think the wish to disassociate from the cult of self is a good human impulse

  

  Christopher Ricks
  • Wish
  • Self
  • Impulse