Allan Bloom Quotes
The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.
Allan Bloom
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From 1 till 7, when we moved to England, I spoke only Portuguese.
Francesca Annis
The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light; although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted.
Saint Augustine
My husband and I have season tickets to the Giants games, and we go there as fans to enjoy it.
Nancy Pelosi
The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
Mae Jemison
I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
Gabrielle Aplin
I'd be more likely to go for somebody who is like me. Well, I like creative people, so whatever that means... Yeah, authentic and creative.
Zooey Deschanel
What I want to do is tell stories about normal people in the American suburbs. I don't write the book where it's a conspiracy reaching the prime minister; I don't write the book with the big serial killer who lops off heads. My setting is a very placid pool of suburbia, family life. And within that I can make pretty big splashes.
Harlan Coben
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
People can be inspired the way I've been inspired by music.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
When people think of someone being prolific, it's like, 'He's got a vault with 5,000 songs in it,' or something, but I just kind of pick them out of the air when they float by.
Mac DeMarco
Perhaps 10 percent of patients who are prescribed antidepressants are really benefiting from the drugs' active ingredients.
Irving Kirsch
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, science and religion, but not to think too much about yourself.
A. S. Byatt
Allowing the pain of personal growth to be a crucible of your spirit-the alchemical grail through which the metal of your former self turns into gold-is one of the highest callings of life. Pain can burn you up and destroy you, or burn you up and redeem you. It can deliver you to an entrenched despair, or deliver you to your higher self. At midlife we decide, consciously or unconsciously, the path of the victim or the path of the phoenix when it is rising up at last.
Marianne Williamson
I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in winning my seven Tours since 1999.
Lance Armstrong
We live in a world in which celebrity recognition, media access, and power translate very quickly into political power and indeed economic power.
Alexander Stille
It took me some time to prove myself to get into the first-team squad, but everything I have been through, all the difficult times, have been worth it.
Kelechi Iheanacho
The distinction between private and public undermines the unity of spiritual strength, draining the public of the transcendent energies while trivializing them because the merely private life provides no proper stage for their action.
Allan Bloom
