Aleister Crowley Quotes

Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

Aleister Crowley

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• The prevalence of mobile homes does not correspond with the prevalence of poverty, or with much of anything else. All that can be confidently said about America's mobile homes is that they are massed in places where you wouldn't want to be in one. Florida's mobile homes lie athwart the path of hurricanes. Georgia's are in the way of tornadoes.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • America
  • Path
  • Poverty

• I like to escape; I like to write when I go on a walk - I'm kind of very fairy that way. I get inspired by the wind. Or when I daydream, that's when I write.

  

  Imelda May
  • Kind
  • Inspired
  • Wind

• If I can't do high kicks or dance in it, then I won't wear it.

  

  Yvonne Strahovski
  • High
  • Dance
  • Then

• The real reason why people are going with digital is that it's extraordinarily mobile, and it's cheaper, and it has a great image, and you just can't beat it at night. It's pulling in variations of colors; it's pulling in lights from 40 miles away - a candle would be seen.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • People
  • Great
  • Real

• Words are much better at relating emotions and thoughts.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Words
  • Thoughts
  • Emotions

• In equities, you price the risk. As far as debt is concerned, if the markets get more sophisticated where, for the levels of risks that you take, you get the debt returns, we will certainly look at it. It's back to a philosophy of risk-adjusted returns.

  

  Uday Kotak
  • Risk
  • Philosophy
  • Risks

• There were so much affairs of me created by the media... of course I was not always a true single. I had some relations, once also to a famous pop star.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • True
  • Me
  • Single

• I have a notebook that is filled to the brim with my dreams and ideas and goals and aspirations.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • Ideas
  • Goals
  • Dreams

• It wasn’t so bad being a slave when your owner was yourself and stood up for you.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Up
  • Bad

• Layton: After all these years of inaction, will the Prime Minister finally get something done and do something the former government would not do and that is to cancel the subsidies to big oil and big ass-I mean big gas and start putting-Stephen Harper: Mr. Speaker, I promise to get to the bottom of it.

  

  Jack Layton
  • Done
  • Promise

• We assert-and on the basis of the most recent socialist literature that you cannot deny-that the real history of capitalism is only now beginning, because capitalism is not just a system of oppression; it also represents a choice of value,…

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Real
  • History
  • Value

• Our opponents like to try and make you believe that Conservatism is a privilege of the few. But Conservatism conserves all that is great and best in our national heritage.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • Great
  • Believe

• If you've ever talked to a special agent that you know well, and you ask he or she about a dangerous encounter they were involved in, they'll almost always give you the same answer: 'Yeah, I did it, but I was scared to heck the whole time.'

  

  James Comey
  • Time
  • She

• There are times when the only access I have to the truest person that I am is when I'm alone and trying to solve a sentence. It's exciting, even when it's frustrating, even when I can't do it right.

  

  Elizabeth Gilbert
  • Trying
  • Alone

• There is a large element of me in every role I do.

  

  Bruce Campbell

• It's pretty inappropriate of fans to think they can expect any kind of narrative from showrunners or writers or actors. I just don't think that's the way you should engage with material that you're watching as a passive audience member.

  

  Cole Sprouse
  • Pretty

• I believe that when you do what you love, you find higher levels of satisfaction that can compensate for lower income.

  

  Adam Neumann
  • Believe

• I'm very sensual and very rhythm-oriented and into poetry. Women can feel that.

  

  Steven Tyler Aerosmith
  • Feels
  • Rhythm
  • Sensual

• I am sure that in the story of Adam and Eve, the forbidden fruit was a fig and not an apple, pear or anything else.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Story
  • Fruit
  • Apple

• A woman asking 'Am I good? Am I satisfied?' is extremely selfish. The less women fuss about themselves, the less they talk to other women, the more they try to please their husbands, the happier the marriage is going to be.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Good
  • Women
  • Marriage

• Learning to not be selfish is what has changed in me the most since being married.

  

  Blake Shelton
  • Learning
  • Selfish

• My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial resources may be few, but our spirits are high, receptive, and excited, and that seems to me to be the most important thing right now.

  

  Walter Gropius
  • Community
  • Right
  • Aim

• Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

  

  Aleister Crowley
  • Selfish