Edith Pattou Quotes

I knelt by the design. Yes, there was the sun rising. But the white form I had always thought to be a cloud was a bear. I could see it now, upside down. White bear, isbjorn, stood for north. Father had not been able to help himself. The truth was there, too. Truth and lie, side by side.

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• Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Society
  • Man
  • Political

• I just mean it's very difficult for me to watch my work, in some ways, because I am critical of what I didn't get across or I thought I was making one point.

  

  Tea Leoni
  • Work
  • Point
  • Critical

• You have to communicate with your teammates; you have to be on a string. There are a lot of things that go into a play. And then you are guarding a two or three, which is probably one of their better players on the team, so you're focused on them.

  

  Zach LaVine
  • You
  • Team
  • Better

• I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.

  

  F. Murray Abraham
  • Want
  • Military
  • Texas

• I just learned not to take a single thing for granted, and I think it just is extraordinary.

  

  Vanessa Kerry
  • Think
  • Single
  • Learned

• I love music in general. It's like girls and their clothes and shoes; when you love shoes, you love shoes. So, for me, I think it's a really dangerous thing to say I'm going to write the best dance song in the world.

  

  Nadia Ali
  • World
  • Music
  • Love

• When you're having conversations about actors, you realize these same conversations have happened about you. If you want to make a film for $5m, then you cast A, B and C, but if you want $20m, you won't be able to cast them, you need X, Y and Z.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Want
  • You
  • Realize

• Europeans could not believe that anything so beautiful could have been designed by a non-European. Europeans of the time considered the people of India uncivilized. They recognized that it was a magnificent building. So they thought it couldn’t have been designed by an Indian.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • Time
  • Believe

• The question, 'What is the purpose thereof?' cannot be asked about anything which is not the product of an agent; therefore we cannot ask what is the purpose of the existence of God.

  

  Maimonides
  • God
  • Question
  • Purpose

• That ear - I mean, Jesus, he's got to will that to the Smithsonian.

  

  Bob Dylan
  • Jesus

• Acts of creation are ordinarily reserved for gods and poets, but humbler folk may circumvent this restriction if they know how. To plant a pine, for example, one need be neither god nor poet; one need only own a shovel. By virtue of this curious loophole in the rules, any clodhopper may say: Let there be a tree-and there will be one.

  

  Aldo Leopold
  • God
  • May
  • Tree

• There is one particular argument that I call our 'ancient war.' If it could be summed up in one phrase, it would be, 'You don't get it. You don't understand what it's like to be me living with you.' There is such truth in that statement. None of us can really appreciate what it is like to be the other person, what that point of view feels like.

  

  Jeff Bridges
  • Up
  • Truth
  • War

• Some discrimination is perfectly reasonable. The discrimination between trying to teach our kids what most of human history has thought was a desirable lifestyle that will contribute to their happiness, and trying to deter them - not to prohibit, and not to punish - but trying to steer them in a direction that will contribute to their happiness.

  

  Bill Kristol
  • Trying
  • Kids
  • History

• In postscript let's just say that I am very fortunate cause I've gotten to work with a lot of great bands!

  

  Jim Diamond
  • Work
  • Great

• People always overdo the matter when they attempt deception.

  

  Charles Dudley Warner
  • People
  • Deception

• Our National Guard, as I think everybody knows, has provided about 40 percent of the boots on the ground in Iraq and in the conflict against Islamofascism. They went into that battle, being called up for their national security service, short of equipment.

  

  Kit Bond
  • Up
  • Service

• I think love is something that you have to work on, and it develops over experience and time. Love is a practice.

  

  Shakira
  • Time
  • Work
  • Experience

• In my books the technology that I choose to talk about has to serve the themes. What that means is that I end up having to cut out a lot of cool technology that would be really fun to describe and play with, but which would just confuse everybody. So in 'Amped,' I focus on neural implants.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • Up
  • Fun
  • Technology

• If you knew how much work went into it, you wouldn't call it genius.

  

  Michelangelo
  • Work
  • Genius
  • Knew

• In a time of universal deceit - telling the truth is a revolutionary act.

  

  George Orwell
  • Truth
  • Revolutionary
  • Universal

• For 10 days after the Olympics, I couldn't go back to my house because people were sitting outside waiting to take my photo. That was a bit rubbish. At first I was open: 'Yeah, of course you can take a photo...' but after a while, it got to the point where I thought, 'Whoa, I don't like this attention anymore.'

  

  Laura Trott
  • People
  • House
  • Attention

• I really prize and love great painting.

  

  John Lithgow
  • Great
  • Painting

• A contented mind is the greatest blessing a man can enjoy in this world.

  

  Joseph Addison
  • World
  • Mind

• I knelt by the design. Yes, there was the sun rising. But the white form I had always thought to be a cloud was a bear. I could see it now, upside down. White bear, isbjorn, stood for north. Father had not been able to help himself. The truth was there, too. Truth and lie, side by side.

  

  Edith Pattou
  • Truth
  • Help
  • Design