George Amos Dorsey Quotes

The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.

George Amos Dorsey

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• Suffering turns men towards their creator.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Men
  • Suffering
  • Creator

• Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Born
  • Glory
  • Creator

• We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Reason
  • Word
  • Creator

• When the creator of the show is gone, the actors end up being the people who have been there the longest.

  

  Lauren Graham
  • People
  • Up
  • Actors

• The ground is holy, being even as it came from the Creator. Keep it, guard it, care for it, for it keeps men, guards men, cares for men. Destroy it and man is destroyed.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Men
  • Destroy
  • Creator

• As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.

  

  Alphonsus Liguori
  • Creator
  • Consist

• Personally, I don't choose any particular religion or symbol or group of words or teachings to define me. That's between me and the most high. You know, my higher self. The Creator.

  

  Erykah Badu
  • High
  • Words
  • Teaching

• When we love, we see the infinite in the finite. We find the Creator in the creation.

  

  Eliphas Levi
  • Love
  • For Her
  • Creation

• The Creator gave us the complete, unchallengable right of prerogative over the one thing, and only thing we own, our mind.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Mind
  • Thing
  • Creator

• I’m willing to meet my creator and answer every shot that I took.

  

  Chris Kyle
  • Answers
  • Creator
  • Willing

• Anthropology found its Galileo in Rivers, its Newton in Mauss.

  

  Claude Levi-Strauss
  • Anthropology
  • Galileo
  • Mauss

• Maybe if I'd studied writing instead of anthropology, I'd be more sensible. You know - pick a genre, follow the rules, stay in the box - but let's face it. Sensible people don't major in anthropology.

  

  Mary Doria Russell
  • People
  • Writing
  • Studied

• I wish I would have kept the big picture in my mind at all times - what it most important? That my kids seek to please God and learn about their Creator.

  

  Mary Elizabeth Lease
  • God
  • Important
  • Mind

• Any work of art ... is great when it makes you feel that its creator has dipped into your very heart for his sensation.

  

  Fannie Hurst
  • Work
  • Great
  • Heart

• A film director is not a creator, but a midwife. His business is to deliver the actor of a child that he did not know he had inside him.

  

  Jean Renoir
  • Creator
  • Midwife
  • Film director

• It is evidently known, beyond contradiction, that New Orleans is the cradle of Jazz and I, myself, happened to be the creator in the year 1902.

  

  Ferdinand Joseph LaMothe
  • Jazz
  • Creator
  • Known

• [God] is the kind Creator who brought forth nature out of nothing.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • God
  • Kind
  • Creator

• I believe the geometric proportion served the creator as an idea when He introduced the continuous generation of similar objects from similar objects.

  

  Johannes Kepler
  • Creator
  • Proportion
  • Served

• Our generation delimited the definition & horizon of Love in a box that mainly refers to love between a boy & a girl. Love has a broader & profound meaning beyond this box. Surely, the highest state of love is Love of God, a love between creations & the Creator.

  

  Abu Sufyan ibn Harb
  • God
  • Love
  • Girl

• No one today knows what is indecent.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Today
  • Knows
  • Indecent

• Men are not therefore put to death, or punished for that their theft proceedeth from election; but because it was noxious and contrary to men's preservation, and the punishment conducing to the preservation of the rest, inasmuch as to punish those that do voluntary hurt, and none else, frameth and maketh men's wills such as men would have them.

  

  Thomas Hobbes
  • Men
  • Death
  • Hurt

• Vampirism, for me, was a way to live in fantasy and have superpowers, but not just in a really perfect, happy, everything is great way. It's superpowers with a cost. It's having to be the villain, and what do you do about that.

  

  Stephenie Meyer
  • Fantasy
  • Superpowers
  • Vampirism

• The drive behind life has lost none of its power; proof that, impelled by that drive, man can build as well as destroy; that in his nature is more of Vishnu the Creator than of Siva the Destroyer.

  

  George Amos Dorsey
  • Creator
  • Anthropology
  • Destroyers