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
  • Known
  • Creator

• [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

• I'm from the Madeleine L'Engle school. The more she delves into science, the more she knows there's a creator who's behind these amazing laws, these amazing events. The symmetry of nature, the structure and order of it.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • School
  • Law
  • Events

• You want sanity, democracy, community, an intact Earth? We can't get there, obeying Constitutional theory and law crafted by slave masters, imperialists, corporate masters, and Nature destroyers. We can't get there, kneeling before robed lawyers stockpiling class plunder precedent up their venerable sleeves. So isn't disobedience the challenge of our age? Principled, inventive, escalating disobedience to liberate our souls, to transfigure our work as humans on this Earth.

  

  Richard Grossman
  • Democracy
  • Obeying
  • Destroyers

• I was very, very financially secure my whole life. I have been very lucky to say that.

  

  Brian Wilson
  • Life
  • Lucky
  • Whole

• No one today knows what is indecent.

  

  Jack Valenti
  • Today
  • Knows
  • Indecent

• Start to think differently. The reason why the majority of people fail is that they all think the same. One of the biggest secrets of life is, do the exact polar opposite of what everybody else is doing.

  

  Nik Halik
  • Life
  • Think
  • Opposite

• 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