Brian Swimme Quotes

A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.

Brian Swimme

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• I want to eliminate the basis of problems and basis of crime, and basis of terrorism.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Want
  • Problems
  • Terrorism

• You gotta take care of the people that are part of the foundation. If you don't, it crumbles.

  

  Jack Scalia
  • People
  • Care
  • Foundation

• Polite conversation is rarely either.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Communication
  • Either

• You know, when I did 'American Idol' the three times, I tried to tell these kids you have to tell the story of the lyric.

  

  Barry Manilow
  • Kids
  • American
  • You

• I would say that the Pentagon Papers case of 1971 - in which the government tried to block the The New York Times and The Washington Post that they obtained from a secret study of how we got involved in the war in Vietnam - that is probably the most important case.

  

  Floyd Abrams
  • Important
  • War
  • Government

• Being a mother is probably the most important thing in my life right now.

  

  Halle Berry
  • Life
  • Important
  • Mother

• If you think too-big-to-fail banks are not worthy of investment because of their impossible-to-read balance sheets, well then, don't buy them.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Think
  • You
  • Balance

• I had a big time punk-rock phase and psychobilly phase. I used to go mad for the Guana Batz.

  

  Imelda May
  • Time
  • Rock
  • Mad

• Unlike a lot of people, I don't feel powerless. I know I can do something. But anyone can do something, it's not about being special. It's about deciding to do it - to dive into work for peace and justice and care for everybody on the planet.

  

  Patch Adams
  • People
  • Work
  • Peace

• Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Parents
  • Simple
  • Prayer

• If it was a choice between making movies and doing nothing, he'd probably still wish me to make movies, So he made me keep going.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Wish
  • Choices
  • Keep Going

• I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.

  

  Linda Blair
  • Why
  • Mother
  • Control

• Paris flared -- Paris, which the divine sun had sown with light, and where in glory waved the great future harvest of Truth and of Justice.

  

  Emile Zola
  • Great
  • Truth
  • Future

• God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Life
  • God
  • Man

• You can't resolve a dilemma with all the very same mind that made it.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Mind
  • Resolve
  • Dilemma

• It's funny, because in 1970 I met the Beatles quite by a chance at a party. It was the Beethoven bicentenary, and I was then also playing the Beethoven Sonatas. And that's all they wanted to hear about - I wanted to talk about them, and all they wanted to talk about was Beethoven.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Funny
  • Party
  • Chance

• When I was growing up watching Marilyn Monroe, I learned that you can be very beautiful, very glamorous and very vulnerable and not give up your soul just because you were a movie star.

  

  Sally Kirkland
  • Up
  • Movie
  • Soul

• I had a mind inquiring enough to question world events, as well as the passion fostered by my background to care, but I lacked the emotional maturity to process these things. That made me ripe for Islamist recruitment. Into this ferment came my recruiter, himself straight out of a London medical college.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • World
  • Mind
  • College

• Nothing is so insufferable to man as to be completely at rest, without passions, without business, without diversion, without study. He then feels his nothingness, his forlornness, his insufficiency, his dependence, his weakness, his emptiness. There will immediately arise from the depth of his heart weariness, gloom, sadness, fretfulness, vexation, despair.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Business
  • Despair
  • Passions

• I also came to understand that our authenticity (or lack thereof) is made evident by the fruit that our life is bearing.

  

  Christine Caine
  • Life
  • Fruit
  • Authenticity

• A tree is a self: it is 'unseen shaping' more than it is leaves or bark, roots or cellulose or fruit ... What this means is that we must address trees as we must address all things, confronting them in the awareness that we are in the presence of numinous mystery.

  

  Brian Swimme
  • Fruit
  • Bark
  • Cellulose