Alex Campbell Quotes

What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

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• I remember the first time I went to Italy when I was eighteen, I was in Florence and there were all these eighteen, nineteen, twenty-year-olds gliding past on Vespas with crinkly, long, hair, and I thought I was on the set of a movie. I couldn't believe that this was going on and I hadn't known about it before. I was flabbergasted.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Time
  • Believe
  • Long

• From the consumer perspective, what happened in the U.S. 10 years ago and Europe five years ago is now happening in Russia. People are beginning to understand that e-commerce is easy and safe.

  

  Maelle Gavet
  • People
  • Beginning
  • Perspective

• I'm not a good rapper. For whatever reason, my brain does not work that way. I just do the beginning, like, 'Yeah, yeah! Ha ha! Woo! What up? Come on! Get at me!' I'm Captain Hook.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Good
  • Work

• African Americans are one of the oldest ethnic groups in this country. We been here since the beginning. Before the beginning.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • Beginning
  • Been

• Therefore let men withdraw themselves from errors; and laying aside corrupt superstitions, let them acknowledge their Father and Lord, whose excellence cannot be estimated, nor His greatness perceived, nor His beginning comprehended.

  

  Lactantius
  • Men
  • Father
  • Beginning

• If you would take, you must first give, this is the beginning of intelligence.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • You
  • Beginning
  • Intelligence

• There are signs that the Arab states are beginning to realize that a nuclear-armed Iran would be a threat to the entire region, and not just to Israel.

  

  Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
  • Beginning
  • Realize
  • Israel

• Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Great
  • Beginning
  • Heaven

• The original 'Star Wars' that I was a part of really was the beginning of my working life.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • Life
  • Beginning
  • Star

• The most difficult and complicated part of the writing process is the beginning.

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Writing
  • Beginning
  • Process

• Here's something I probably shouldn't be saying: I never listen to my soundtrack albums because I can't stand it. It's just stereo. When I write, I write in surround. My life is in surround.

  

  Hans Zimmer
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Stand

• I've had people break into profiles on my Internet; they got into my accounts. This was at the beginning of my career. There is a fair bit of alarm when something like that happens. It definitely bothered me a lot at the time. But you move on from these things.

  

  Laura Donnelly
  • People
  • Time
  • Career

• If the angel Gabriel came to me and said, 'Look, I'm willing to take your soul now and give it back to you at any period of time in the history of the nation of Israel, from the very beginning to this very day' - I think I would not think of any other time except for when Moses brought down the Ten Commandments from Mount Sinai.

  

  Yitzhak Navon
  • Time
  • History
  • Soul

• I was born in 1928 and by 1931 the Depression was beginning to mount.

  

  Vidal Sassoon
  • Beginning
  • Born
  • Depression

• And, I may add, from what totally unexpected sources come many of those who from the comparatively modest beginning in the chorus rise to the heights of really great achievement in the theatrical profession.

  

  Florenz Ziegfeld
  • Great
  • May
  • Beginning

• I think that with beauty, people jump to the end instead of starting from the beginning with a good lotion or prep.

  

  Kat Graham
  • People
  • Good
  • Beginning

• My writing has changed a lot. From 16 to 19, I've changed a lot. My kind of writing in the beginning was very observational; now it's grown very personal for me. I use it as a diary in many ways.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • Writing
  • Me
  • Beginning

• In the beginning of the human race there was no genetic load which would cause undesirable traits such as appear in offspring of marriages between relatives today.

  

  Walter Lang
  • Today
  • Beginning
  • Race

• Yes, hell exists. It is not a fairy tale. One indeed burns there. This hell is not at the end of life. It is here. At the beginning. Hell is what the infant must experience before he gets to us.

  

  Frederick Leboyer
  • Life
  • Experience
  • Beginning

• As iconic a band as Metallica has become, I think sometimes we forget just how raw they were in the beginning of their career, and to a 15-year-old kid like me, it was just shattering. I mean, it was beyond.

  

  Corey Taylor Stone Sour
  • Career
  • Band
  • Beginning

• The greatest tragedy of life is not unanswered prayer, buy unoffered prayer.

  

  F. B. Meyer
  • Life
  • Prayer
  • Life is

• I realize that you have to show up for your life.

  

  Mariska Hargitay
  • Life
  • Up

• Without doubt, if we are to go back to that ultimate, integral experience, unwarped by the sophistications of theory, that experience whose elucidation is the final aim of philosophy, the flux of things is one ultimate generalization around which we must weave our philosophical system.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Experience
  • Doubt
  • Philosophical

• What we are only now beginning to fully realize is that in seeking material pleasure too constantly, the capacity for enjoyment or fulfillment decreases and eventually becomes exhausted.

  

  Alex Campbell
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