Edith Stein Quotes

Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

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• People always ask me about 'Girls' with this kind of hesitation. What do I think of it? I love it. It's awesome. I get a lot of Where do you come down on this? I come down on the side of 'Yay, Lena Dunham. Congratulations. I'm jealous.' She's doing something so fantastic. Maybe it's not for everybody, but it certainly is for me.

  

  Callie Khouri
  • People
  • Awesome
  • Fantastic

• There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Because
  • Canada
  • Incentive

• Thus, in a sense, mathematics has been most advanced by those who distinguished themselves by intuition rather than by rigorous proofs.

  

  Felix Klein
  • Mathematics
  • Intuition

• When you're in your early 20s your love life seems to explode every 20 minutes or so. By the time you've reached your thirties, it is every five or ten years.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Life
  • Time
  • Love

• I never smoked. I never drank and I never took drugs. The funny thing is, nothing is more boring, people like this. For me, it's OK. But most of my friends, at least they smoke and drink.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Friends
  • Funny

• I really like just super dry comedy.

  

  Zach Braff
  • Comedy
  • Like
  • Just

• No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Science
  • Politics

• Would I describe myself as new Labour? I'm Labour, organised Labour. I think labels have a limited use and that's where you really get into boy stuff sometimes, just sticking on labels.

  

  Frances O'Grady
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Sometimes

• My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.

  

  Vince Vaughn
  • Dad
  • Mom
  • Start

• 'Made in Italy' is from the tycoons of the '80s, not me. It is people who represent an Italy which I don't belong to and I don't feel a part of.

  

  Lapo Elkann
  • People
  • Me
  • Feel

• Well, I needed the work - that's the honest answer. I haven't worked for a while, a couple of years. So I thought it would be nice to get back to work and earn some money.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Work
  • Money
  • Nice

• My first-ever car, my parents bought me a red Fiat Uno. I was 17 and just so happy to have a car, so I was very fortunate that my parents were in a position to get me one - it was a secondhand car, but I was just so happy to have it.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Happy
  • Parents
  • Car

• I always thought golf was a game reserved for the rich and the elite... But it's a misconception. It's a highly technical game, and it's a game that you can play and master alone. You require sharp skills for it, and you can play the game alone.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Game
  • Alone
  • Thought

• Music video played a huge role in developing my sensibility as a director.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • Music
  • Director
  • Video

• The inventory goes down the elevator every night.

  

  Fairfax Cone
  • Night
  • Down
  • Inventory

• I'm sure that people who elected me, some of them thought I was gay, some of them thought I wasn't gay, and most of them didn't care.

  

  Ed Koch
  • People
  • Care
  • Thought

• It was an outdoor Shakespeare theater that I grew up at. That feels like home, and the place I'm always trying to figure out how to get to.

  

  Hamish Linklater
  • Up
  • Trying
  • Home

• Never get involved with a business that you can't really be hands-on - that if your employees quit, you can't run yourself. If I can't cut hair, why open a barbershop?

  

  Fat Joe
  • Why
  • Business
  • Hair

• When I grew up, the Devil was a reason why I had a headache or the Devil was the reason I got mad today. We always blamed the Devil. I think today when I say the Enemy, I like to make it broader. Sometimes the Enemy can be our own thoughts.

  

  Joel Osteen
  • Up
  • Why
  • Today

• The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Children
  • Man
  • Hand

• For me, doing good work is important.

  

  Anushka Shetty
  • Good
  • Work
  • Important

• Always, I seemed to just miss out. Why, I wasn't even the most valuable senior athlete in my high school in Oak Creek, Wisconsin.

  

  John Matuszak
  • School
  • Why
  • High

• She had a way of seeing the beauty in others, even, and perhaps most especially, when that person couldn't see it in themselves.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • She
  • Way
  • Remus Lupin

• Everything abstract is ultimately part of the concrete. Everything inanimate finally serves the living. That is why every activity dealing in abstraction stands in ultimate service to a living whole.

  

  Edith Stein
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  • Service