Angelus Silesius Quotes

The All proceedeth from the One, And into One must All regress: If otherwise, the All remains Asunder-riven manyness.

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• We strivin' for perfection.

  

  Raekwon
  • Perfection

• President Reagan, of course, did more than any other person to entrench the Republican reputation for toughness on national security.

  

  Samantha Power
  • Security
  • Reputation

• I expect the Republicans will enjoy a large bounce out of their convention. They're here wrapping themselves in the 9/11 flag, which I think is inappropriate in many ways, but it's their choice.

  

  Harold Ford, Jr.
  • Think
  • Enjoy
  • Choice

• You never know when your future wife might be in the stands.

  

  J. R. Smith
  • Future
  • Know
  • Wife

• I chose the most explosive dress I could find. I put a ton of makeup on and some great round earrings. I looked like Jennifer Jones in Duel in the Sun.

  

  Victoria Abril
  • Great
  • Sun
  • Makeup

• These movies are like my kids. I just love them to death. Some of them go to Harvard and some of them can barely graduate high school.

  

  Barry Sonnenfeld
  • School
  • Love
  • Kids

• I'm not sure if I want to continue to work when I have kids.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Work
  • Kids
  • Want

• I was a big fan of Jim Hall as well. I liked his comping style, his accompanying. And that he played, generally, four note chords, the top four strings of the guitar.

  

  Gary Burton
  • Style
  • Guitar
  • Big

• Felicity, the companion of content, is rather found in our own breasts than in the enjoyment of external things; and I firmly believe it requires but a little philosophy to make a man happy in whatever state he is.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Believe
  • Happy
  • Man

• Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • Prayer
  • End
  • Leaving

• All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Up
  • Music

• I'm not one that believes that affirmative action should be based on one's skin color or one's gender, I think it should be done based on one's need, because I think if you are from a poor white community, I think that poor white kid needs a scholarship just as badly as a poor black kid.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • Done
  • Black
  • Community

• There was an immeasurable distance between the quick and the dead: they did not seem to belong to the same species; and it was strange to think that but a little while before they had spoken and moved and eaten and laughed.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Distance

• He had a bitter pain in his heart, for he knew that she was still a stranger to him and his hungry love was destined ever to remain unsatisfied.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Heart
  • She
  • Pain

• Perseverance must have some practical end, or it does not avail the man possessing it. A person without a practical end in view becomes a crank or an idiot. Such persons fill our asylums.

  

  Alexander Graham Bell
  • Perseverance

• African American women, and moms in particular, are evicted at disproportionately high rates.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Women
  • American
  • High

• I like to let the work speak rather than to have to talk about it.

  

  Laurie Metcalf
  • Work

• 'Hamilton' is not just the best musical I've ever seen. It may be the best thing I've ever seen.

  

  Andy Dunn
  • May

• I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Working
  • Proof
  • Poems

• But if we admit God, must we admit Miracle? Indeed, indeed, you have no security against it. That is the bargain. Theology says to you in effect, 'Admit God and with Him the risk of a few miracles, and I in return will ratify your faith in uniformity as regards the overwhelming majority of events.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Faith
  • Risk

• Now the leaves are falling fast, Nurse's flowers will not last; Nurses to their graves are gone, And the prams go rolling on.

  

  W. H. Auden
  • Nurse

• One thing I've always been really proud of about our band is that we've done what we wanted to do, what we enjoy doing, and we've been really lucky that people have responded to it the way that they have. As long as we continue to really enjoy what we do and make decisions with integrity, I'm hoping people continue to respond to that.

  

  Tad Kubler
  • People
  • Long
  • Done

• I knew 'Like Crazy' would be good, I just knew it, and that's why I fought so hard to be on it.

  

  Charlie Bewley
  • Good
  • Why
  • Crazy

• The All proceedeth from the One, And into One must All regress: If otherwise, the All remains Asunder-riven manyness.

  

  Angelus Silesius