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
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• Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Done
  • Night

• 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 don't even call it violence when it's in self defense; I call it intelligence.

  

  Malcolm X
  • Violence
  • Self
  • Intelligence

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

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • Night
  • Man
  • Wish

• That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Changes
  • Ego
  • Self

• 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

• Prayer is more than meditation. In meditation, the source of strength is one's self. When one prays, he goes to a source of strength greater than his own.

  

  Madame de Stael
  • Prayer
  • Self
  • Strength

• 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

• Maybe if I could bear my life as it is for one day, for one hour, for one minute, I could forget my wish to be something else.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Life
  • Wish

• My wants are many, and, if told, Would muster many a score; And were each wish a mint of gold, I still would want for more.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Wish
  • Gold

• What will it cost [a person] to be a true Christian? It will cost him his self-righteousn ess. He must cast away all pride and high thoughts, and conceit of his own goodness. He must be content to go to heaven as a poor sinner, saved only by free grace, and owing all to the merit and righteousness of another.

  

  J. C. Ryle
  • True
  • High
  • Free

• I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads. I was always just sort of fascinated by the fact that when you turn on the TV, there was motion, there was moving pictures on it.

  

  Andrew Ross Sorkin
  • People
  • Moving
  • Sports

• I think the philosophy that we don't know as much as we think we know resonates throughout my work.

  

  Bob Mayer
  • Work

• Imitation is being rewarded. They're learning that if you fit right in the mold, you get rewarded. Music is no longer a form of expression - it's a means to a lifestyle.

  

  Mike Watt
  • Mean
  • Expression
  • Imitation

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

  

  Christopher Ricks
  • Wish
  • Self
  • Impulse