Robert Phillips (Bob Phillips) Quotes

Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.

Robert Phillips

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• Engagement
• Rings
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• In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Attitude

• In the 20th century alone, there have been 1,600 books about the circus. My adding one more would be superfluous unless I do something totally new and different.

  

  Gary Jennings
  • Different
  • Alone
  • New

• When you're in theater or the circus or film - to me it's all one - affairs happen. People fall in love.

  

  Baz Luhrmann
  • People
  • Love
  • Film

• Be reactionary. React to what the market wants. And the market wants one-on-one real time engagement. Now that we have the tools to engage, I'm going to continue fighting for the end user.

  

  Gary Vaynerchuk
  • Time
  • Real
  • Fighting

• Reducing the price of AIDS drugs gave me so much satisfaction that I've been thinking what else I could do. One day, I thought, 'Let's look at cancer and see how we can spare cancer patients' unnecessary suffering.'

  

  Yusuf Hamied
  • Thinking
  • Day
  • Suffering

• Put simply, my vision for AOL is to build the largest and most sophisticated global advertising network while we grow the size and engagement of our worldwide audience.

  

  Randy Falco
  • Vision
  • Grow
  • Advertising

• When you are suffering, you become more understanding about yourself, but also about other people's sufferings too. That's the first step to understand somebody is to understand their sufferings. So then love follows.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Love
  • Suffering

• There's nothing wrong in suffering, if you suffer for a purpose. Our revolution didn't abolish danger or death. It simply made danger and death worthwhile.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Death
  • Purpose
  • Suffering

• I lived for four years in the 1930s with these individuals and the only time that I wasn't thinking about dealing with physical suffering is when I was working on this book. I've never been more alive as when I worked on this book.

  

  Laura Hillenbrand
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Book

• The role of a clown and a physician are the same - it's to elevate the possible and to relieve suffering.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Suffering
  • Same
  • Physician

• Too much self-centered attitude, you see, brings, you see, isolation. Result: loneliness, fear, anger. The extreme self-centered attitude is the source of suffering.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Fear
  • Suffering
  • Attitude

• Achieving gender equality requires the engagement of women and men, girls and boys. It is everyone's responsibility.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • Men
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Dad

• China and India will take the global leadership on climate change: they are suffering for it.

  

  Malcolm Turnbull
  • Change
  • Suffering
  • Leadership

• I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung. We are, therefore, suffering from galloping consumption. The restoration of the wheel arrests the progress of the fell disease.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Lost
  • Suffering
  • Progress

• Astonishingly, if you will have absolutely nothing to do with suffering, suffering will have nothing to do with you.

  

  Vernon Howard
  • Suffering

• I am utterly convinced that Science and Peace will triumph over Ignorance and War, that nations will eventually unite not to destroy but to edify, and that the future will belong to those who have done the most for the sake of suffering humanity.

  

  Louis Pasteur
  • Done
  • War
  • Future

• In a world, man must create his own essence: it is in throwing himself into the world, suffering there, struggling there, that he gradually defines himself.

  

  Jean-Paul Sartre
  • World
  • Suffering

• Neuroscience has proven that similar areas of the brain are activated both in the person who suffers and in the one who feels empathy. Thus, empathic suffering is a true experience of suffering.

  

  Matthieu Ricard
  • Experience
  • True
  • Brain

• The second noble truth states that we must discover why we are suffering. We must cultivate the courage to look deeply, with clarity and courage, into our own suffering. We often hold the tacit assumption that all of our suffering stems from events in the past. But, whatever the initial seed of trauma, the deeper truth is that our suffering is more closely a result of how we deal with the effect these past events have on us in the present.

  

  Peter A. Levine
  • Past
  • Suffering
  • Looks

• I was pregnant with my daughter when I started writing my first thriller, so I guess you could blame hormones.

  

  Chelsea Cain
  • Writing
  • Daughter

• I just hated the law. I wasn't cut out for it. I couldn't imagine spending my life doing that, so I quit before I began.

  

  Andrew Pyper
  • Life
  • Law

• Apostles receive revelations from God, and consequently they are able to say 'This is what the Spirit is saying to the churches right now.' Making such a statement with credibility carries with it tremendous authority.

  

  C. Wagner
  • God
  • Church
  • Spirit

• Love has been described as a three-ring circus: First comes the engagement ring, then the wedding ring, and after that the suffering.

  

  Robert Phillips
  • Suffering
  • Engagement
  • Rings