Georges Bernanos Quotes

It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so..

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• There is no greater power in Heaven or on Earth than pure, unconditional love. The nature of the God force, the unseen intelligence in all things, which causes the material world and is the center of both the spiritual and physical plane, is best described as pure, unconditional love.

  

  Wayne Dyer
  • World
  • God
  • Love

• I loved history because to me, history was like watching a movie.

  

  Quentin Tarantino
  • History
  • Movie
  • Loved

• It takes a lot of help - nature, friends, family, craftsmen - for me to make what I make.

  

  Dan Colen
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Help

• I have lectured at the U.N. and travelled widely, giving lectures on human rights and gender inequalities in universities. But this is a life I do not wish to live. I don't want to be a showcase, I want to be in a battlefield where I can stand beside the oppressed and the poor.

  

  Taslima Nasrin
  • Life
  • Live
  • Giving

• I was always active as a kid. I was a professional figure skater for many years and I was a dancer, so it's just been part of my life, and I think that creates a certain body type.

  

  Malin Akerman
  • Life
  • Professional
  • My Life

• Mountain climbing is my passion, and to empower women through my expeditions is the reason. I am doing the mountain climbing to empower women.

  

  Samina Baig
  • Women
  • Passion
  • Mountain

• I know I can act. There aren't too many other jobs I know how to do.

  

  Jack Nicholson
  • Know
  • Act
  • I Can

• If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.

  

  Patricia Velasquez
  • Me
  • Need
  • Socks

• I can feel the 60S looming. In my profession, I've just moved along with my age. By thinking in decades, rather than whether someone's 42 or 47, you can give yourself a whole 10 years to turn yourself around in.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Thinking
  • Age
  • Yourself

• The man who can put himself in the place of other men, who can understand the workings of their minds, need never worry about what the future has in store for him.

  

  Owen D. Young
  • Men
  • Future
  • Man

• Start early and begin raising the bar throughout the day.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Day
  • Start
  • Early

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

  

  Wassily Kandinsky
  • World
  • Work
  • Art

• I think that much of the truth has been withheld from the American people.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • People
  • Truth
  • American

• Parents do bear some of the responsibility if they don't talk to their kids, are never around, even deny their kids the love that young girls often crave when they decide to have a baby.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Kids
  • Parents
  • Responsibility

• When you do a cartoon based on news headlines, you do it based on incomplete information.

  

  Ted Rall
  • You
  • Information
  • News

• With the tentacles of branding reaching into every crevice of youth culture, leaching brand-image content not only out of street styles like hip-hop but psychological attitudes like ironic detachment, the cool hunt has had to go further afield to find unpilfered space and that left only one frontier: the past.

  

  Naomi Klein
  • Past
  • Culture
  • Space

• Yet it is incumbent on those in high places to make wise decisions and it is reasonable and important that the public be correctly informed. It is consequently incumbent on all of us to state the facts as forthrightly as possible.

  

  Hyman G. Rickover
  • Important
  • High
  • Wise

• I think all aesthetic judgments-all the aesthetic choices we are making-are moral choices. They cannot escape the moral dimension in the broader sense. It has to relate to the philosophical understanding of who we are and how so-called 'art and culture' functions in today’s world.

  

  Ai Weiwei
  • World
  • Art
  • Today

• I think it's perfectly just to refuse service to anyone based on behavior, but not based on race or religion.

  

  Dean Koontz
  • Service

• A revolution in itself is not a blessing. The revolution accomplished by the French people is, indeed, a wonderful event - the most striking, in my opinion, in history; but it may lead to events which will make it a mighty evil.

  

  John C. Calhoun
  • People
  • May
  • History

• When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Way
  • Weird
  • Pride

• A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

  

  Isoroku Yamamoto
  • Sleep
  • Military
  • Enemy

• You just can't take a day for granted. We had to work really hard for anything, and so that's been instilled in me. And I don't look at myself as better than anybody else, because in an instant everything can change.

  

  Alicia Keys
  • Work
  • Change
  • Instilled

• It's a fine thing to rise above pride, but you must have pride in order to do so..

  

  Georges Bernanos
  • Pride
  • Order
  • Rise