Gary Crowley Quotes
Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.
Quotes to Explore
-
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
-
It's not that we poor men are so powerful to be able to banish the devil. It's that God gives us the power.
-
There are Katy-Perry-in-concert-type pieces that I look at and am like, 'This dress has a hundred cupcakes on it – I want it!' My mom will always talk me down.
-
People get numbed when they see picture after picture, year in and year out, of people starving.
-
If someone gets married at 15, they're either dumb or pregnant. I was both.
-
I think people just want to be popular. So they're going to write lyrics that are going to get your attention. You know, sometimes, they're a little graphic, and I don't think that's so necessary.
-
O king! I was but a man like others, asleep upon my couch, when lo, the breezes of the All-Glorious were wafted over me, and taught me the knowledge of all that hath been. This thing is not from me, but from One Who is Almighty and All-Knowing.
-
Not that painting would have been a release. The reason for doing it is the desire to create. I've got to do it! I've seen that, I can still remember it, I've got to paint it.
-
Strip away the usual hot air, and bin Laden's audiotape is the sign of a seriously weakened man.
-
Metaphorically, every vagina has secret teeth, for the male exits as less than when he entered. The basic mechanics of conception require action in the male but nothing more than passive receptivity in the female.
-
There’s so much goodness there, and such a value placed on education, which is sort of universal among Jews around the world. I appreciate that obviously, to be a part of that.
-
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
-
Most of the films I've done were ruined in the postproduction, not during filming.
-
I don't care what word you use: my job is to design clothing that is not out there for us.
-
'Farscape' is not what you call hard science fiction.
-
I think music is a lifting force, I think love is the lifting force in the human condition. I think you see someone loving on their child, and it moves you, and you can't help it. It rings a bell inside of us that elevates us as human beings, and I treasure that. I think it's one of the few great things about human beings.
-
Beliefs and values that have held sway for thousands of years will be questioned as never before.
-
Liberty, freedom and democracy are very fuzzy words, but human rights is very specific.
-
(Gates) is one of the most important business leaders of his age.
-
Without order there can be no inner satisfaction. Without inner satisfaction there can be no freedom. Without freedom there is no joy.
-
AT&T should be required to provide a clear and straightforward system of calling time that will make it easier for our troops to call home, ... It disturbs me to think that companies are more interested in making a buck on our soldiers in Iraq than providing the quality services they have been paid to provide.
-
The essence of a tragedy, or even of a serious play, is the spiritual awakening, or regeneration, of the hero.
-
Enlightenment is beyond self-improvement and spiritual seeking. It is the final resolution of a case of mistaken identity. It is the direct recognition of your eternal nature and the seeing through of who you have falsely believed yourself to be.
