Brian Swimme Quotes

If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.

Brian Swimme

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• When I was probably 5 or 6, my mother put me into an acting, singing, and dancing class.

  

  Beau Mirchoff
  • Mother
  • Me
  • Singing

• Sometimes you'll see people give performances in comedy with an ironic detachment where they'll sort of be remarking on the character from outside of it. They're sort of commenting as they're playing the character. I think it's hard not to do that. I've certainly done that.

  

  Zach Woods
  • People
  • Done
  • Character

• I lose faith and I lose ground, but then I see you and remember unconditional love.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Remember
  • Faith
  • Lose

• Christian scholars often say that Sufi theories are close to those of Christianity. Many Moslems maintain that they are essentially derived from Islam. The resemblance of many Sufi ideas to those of several religious and esoteric systems are sometimes taken as evidence of derivation. The Islamic interpretation is that religion is of one origin, differences being due to local or historical causes.

  

  Idries Shah
  • Taken
  • Christian
  • Religious

• That Beatle euphoria has always been there, and it's hard to be in a room with a Beatle and try to be totally natural. You never shake that off.

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Natural
  • Shake
  • Euphoria

• Activity equals results. If you want to increase your success, increase your activity. Increase contact with customers. The more people you contact, the higher your sales will be because of the law of probabilities.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • People
  • Success
  • Law

• About two-thirds of the face of Marx is beard, a vast solemn wooly uneventful beard that must have made all normal exercise impossible. It is not the sort of beard that happens to a man, it is a beard cultivated, cherished, and thrust patriarchally upon the world.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Men
  • Exercise

• If we looked down at the world from space, we would not see any demarcations of national boundaries. We would simply see one small planet, just one.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • World
  • Small
  • Space

• I was fortunate that I was at newspapers for eight years, where I wrote at least five or six stories every week. You get used to interviewing lots of different people about a lot of different things. And they aren't things you know about until you do the story.

  

  Chuck Klosterman
  • People
  • Different
  • Story

• Science, not religion, has taught me my most useful values, among them intellectual honesty. It is better to go without answers than to accept those that merely resolve puzzlement.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Science
  • Honesty

• People forget that I was married. I love that, Will he get married? I don't talk about it because I don't think about it. I don't ever question other peoples' versions of how they live their lives or what they do.

  

  George Clooney
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Married

• They whom truth and wisdom lead, can gather honey from a weed.

  

  William Cowper
  • Truth
  • Wisdom
  • Weed

• For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.

  

  Vita Sackville-West
  • Turns
  • Folks
  • Bees

• The grand saga of how humans spread across the globe will need some amendments and annotations – rendezvous here, elopements there, and the commingling of genes most everywhere.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Humans
  • Genes
  • Globe

• I have never thought, for my part, that man's freedom consists in his being able to do whatever he wills, but that he should not, by any human power, be forced to do what is against his will.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Men
  • Power
  • Freedom

• There is nothing that dies so hard and rallies so often as intolerance. The vices and passions which it summons to its support are the most ruthless and the most persistent harbored in the human breast. They sometimes sleep but they never seem to die. Anything, any extraordinary situation, any unnecessary controversy, may light those fires again and plant in our republic that which has destroyed every republic which undertook to nurse it.

  

  William Borah
  • Support
  • Sometimes
  • Humans

• If you let hydrogen gas alone for 13 billion years it will become giraffes, rose bushes and humans.

  

  Brian Swimme
  • Humans
  • Giraffes
  • Hydrogen gas