Brian Patten Quotes

I reach into you to reach all mankind, And the deeper into you I reach The deeper glows elsewhere the world And sings of you. It says, To love is the one common miracle.

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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

• I think the tradition of well-written history hasn't been squashed out of the academic world as much in Britain as it has in the United States.

  

  Adam Hochschild
  • World
  • History
  • Tradition

• Basically, our goal is to organize the world's information and to make it universally accessible and useful.

  

  Larry Page
  • World
  • Goal
  • Information

• I think fractures in your childhood make you observe the world more as an outsider. Possibly it pushes you outside.

  

  Pam Ferris
  • World
  • Think
  • Childhood

• Fifty-seven countries in the world, a third of the United Nations, do not recognize Israel. In a way, I think North Korea has better international relations than Israel.

  

  Abdullah II of Jordan
  • World
  • Think
  • Better

• Books that change you, even later in life, give you a kind of electrical shock as the world takes a different shape.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• What happens to the Microsofts, Oracles and IBMs of the world is that when they get big enough, they don't think they need to bring that same level of focus and energy to the end-user experience.

  

  Aaron Levie
  • World
  • Experience
  • Energy

• If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • World
  • Fall
  • Apart

• February 19, 1942, is the year in which Executive Order 9066 was signed, and this was the order that called for the exclusion and internment of all Japanese Americans living on the west coast during World War II.

  

  Xavier Becerra
  • World
  • War
  • Japanese

• Stylistically, I love make-up. I love doing my own make-up and stuff, but clothes-wise, I actually didn't ever really care. Initially the fashion world was more interested in me than the music world, which was strange when I first started singing.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • World
  • Music
  • Care

• The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • World
  • Voice

• In looking out into the world, it didn't look all that nice out there. And who were the nice people? Certainly Mahatma Gandhi was.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • People
  • World
  • Nice

• There isn't anything in the world that can't be made better.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • World
  • Better
  • Anything

• They were the first Westerners. The spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery; and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

  

  Edith Hamilton
  • World
  • Greek

• A very great part of the mischiefs that vex the world arises from words.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • World
  • Great
  • Words

• No man who believes that all is for the best in this suffering world can keep his ethical values unimpaired, since he is always having to find excuses for pain and misery.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • World
  • Pain
  • Suffering

• Art must must carry man's craving for the ideal, must be an expression of his reaching out towards it; that art must give man hope and faith. And the more hopeless the world in the artist's version, the more clearly perhaps must we see the ideal that stands in opposition - otherwise life becomes impossible! Art symbolises the meaning of our existence.

  

  Andrei Tarkovsky
  • Life
  • World
  • Art

• I'm big into social studies, the humanities. I really love history and world issues and philosophy and law.

  

  Connor Jessup
  • World
  • History
  • Law

• As I said to Ringo, I was in a successful Rock N Roll band. He was in a band that changed the world. That's the difference.

  

  Greg Lake
  • World
  • Successful
  • Changed

• If you've raged, if you've mistreated somebody, if you've ever thought only about yourself - these are things that all human beings struggle with and judge themselves for.

  

  Amy Landecker
  • Struggle
  • Judge

• Ryan Murphy, he basically tries to find something that's a pulse, a pressure point in our culture, and he grabs it, and he squeezes it. I think 'Freak Show' has a lot to do with the entertainment industry and the way we entertain ourselves: the objectification of people and the lengths we'll go for our own amusement.

  

  Finn Wittrock
  • People
  • Culture
  • Pressure

• If God has called you, do not spend time looking over your shoulder to see who is following you.

  

  Corrie Ten Boom
  • Time
  • God
  • Shoulder

• In their religion they are so uneven,That each man goes his own byway to heaven.

  

  Daniel Defoe
  • Heaven

• I reach into you to reach all mankind, And the deeper into you I reach The deeper glows elsewhere the world And sings of you. It says, To love is the one common miracle.

  

  Brian Patten
  • World
  • Miracle
  • Mankind