Brian Morton Quotes
He was like a fireman of intellectual life, rescuing frail forgotten thinkers from the burning building of time.Brian Morton
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I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.
Rand Paul -
I think speeches and fruit should always be fresh.
Yolande Cornelia "Nikki" Giovanni, Jr. -
The greatest empiricists among us are only empiricists on reflection: when left to their instincts, they dogmatize like infallible popes.
William James -
In my mind I know the name of an ocean the size of everything that was. My mouth can only call it death.
Catherynne M. Valente -
Each person's life is a story that is telling itself in the living.
William Throsby Bridges -
The best way to overcome undesirable or negative thoughts and feelings is to cultivate the positive ones.
William Walker Atkinson
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Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs.
Hazrat Inayat Khan -
I have met many people, and everyone's impression of me is based on my career.
Uday Kiran -
A follower of the Way (Tao) loses something each day. Loss after loss until arriving at Non Action (Wu Wei).
Lao Tzu -
If somebody thinks wearing pretty dresses onstage somehow discredits us that's pretty absurd.
Douglas Glenn Colvin Ramones -
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
George Bernard Shaw -
Perseverance is what I tell my students. It's important that you keep your dream alive, because you're going to encounter a lot of obstacles, and no one is going to dream big for you. You have to have the fortitude and the resilience to stick with your own dreams. That can be hard.
Kasi Lemmons
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Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
Dan Ariely -
Despots play their part in the works of thinkers. Fettered words are terrible words. The writer doubles and trebles the power of his writing when a ruler imposes silence on the people. Something emerges from that enforced silence, a mysterious fullness which filters through and becomes steely in the thought.
Victor Hugo -
When first you enter Wisdom's sea, beware-A wave of indecision floods you there.
Farid al-Din Attar -
He was like a fireman of intellectual life, rescuing frail forgotten thinkers from the burning building of time.
Brian Morton