George Sarton Quotes

From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

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• It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • May
  • Economic
  • Destruction

• I can't do choreographed movement. It has to come from my heart... and my pelvis.

  

  Kate McKinnon
  • Heart
  • Movement
  • Come

• Maybe entertainment is not supposed to be reality.

  

  Victoria Jackson
  • Reality
  • Entertainment

• Photography is a way of feeling, of touching, of loving. What you have caught on film is captured forever... it remembers little things, long after you have forgotten everything.

  

  Aaron Siskind
  • Long
  • Feeling
  • Forever

• To create a work of art is to create the world.

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• There's too many sounds in the world! The sounds of the earth are terrible! The roots squeezing and jostling one another through the clefts, and the crashing of the acorn from the oak. The cry of the little birdeen in under the silence of the hawk!

  

  Lady Gregory
  • World
  • Earth
  • Silence

• I don't believe that I should just do A-movies, I just do the work as an artist.

  

  Pam Grier
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Artist

• To be ambitious of true honor, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue.

  

  Walter Scott
  • True
  • Honor
  • Perfection

• Music never dies. Do we really need another Madonna tour? Does she have to compete with women performers 25 years her junior?

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Music
  • Women
  • Performers

• And if there is one thing that he and this year’s anniversary should teach us, if there’s one lesson I hope that Malia and Sasha and young people everywhere learn from this day, it’s that with enough effort, and enough empathy, and enough perseverance, and enough courage, people who love their country can change it.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Country
  • Hope

• I have said it before and I will say it again: Impeachment is off the table.

  

  Nancy Pelosi

• You do not win by struggling to the top of a caste system, you win by refusing to be trapped within one at all.

  

  Naomi Wolf

• There is almost no marital problem that can't be helped enormously by taking off your clothes.

  

  Garrison Keillor

• Don't be so amazing or I'll miss you too much.

  

  Conor Oberst Bright Eyes
  • Amazing

• When I get anxious and scared, I probably lose my temper more than I should.

  

  Dawn Steel

• A woman carries her clothes. But the shoe carries the woman.

  

  Christian Louboutin

• I've been through it all, baby, I'm mother courage.

  

  Elizabeth Taylor
  • Mother
  • Courage
  • Baby

• A man can preach no better than he prays.

  

  Charles Stanley

• Man-every man-is an end in himself, not a means to the ends of others; he must live for his own sake, neither sacrificing himself to others nor sacrificing others to himself; he must work for his rational self-interest, with the achievement of his own happiness as the highest moral purpose of his life.

  

  Ayn Rand
  • Life
  • Work
  • Live

• Your relationship with love is your relationship with the essence of who you are. It affects your relationship with your body, and your relationship with food. When you realize that you are a spirit and that this body is a temple, then you want to treat it well.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Food
  • Relationship
  • Essence

• But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.

  

  Patrick Stewart
  • Up
  • Love
  • Child

• I've been blackmailed a billion times. I've been sued for ridiculous things. At one point in my life, I was an ATM machine. But I'm used to that. You don't get used to it, but I'm used to the fact that people will do this, even your own family members, and I don't hate none of them.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Life
  • Family

• Failure holds the seeds for greatness - so long as you water those seeds with introspection, they can be the root of your success.

  

  Daniel Lubetzky
  • Long
  • Success
  • Water

• From the humanistic point of view every human achievement is unforgettable and immortal in its essence, even if it is replaced by a "better" one.

  

  George Sarton
  • Achievement
  • Essence
  • Replaced