R. D. Laing Quotes

Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.

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• I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.

  

  Ed Speleers
  • Time
  • Long
  • Family

• I love sitcoms, and I grew up on sitcoms. That's my tasty junk food.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Love
  • Food
  • Grew

• My brother and I had many games. We were inseparable. We had a little team going on between us. We had even a language that was kind of like pig latin. So we'd speak in the language. It's called Op.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Team
  • Language
  • Brother

• I praise the Lord, the Sovereign of the royal realm, Who has extended his sway over the tract of the world.

  

  Taliesin
  • World
  • Praise
  • Royal

• Early on, even before he was the front-runner, TV news was giving Trump far more attention than other candidates and far more than he deserved.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Giving
  • Attention
  • Trump

• When you have a chance to play a character people can relate to, it's rewarding.

  

  Karine Vanasse
  • People
  • Character
  • Chance

• The only two things you can truly depend upon are gravity and greed.

  

  Jack Palance
  • Greed
  • Depend
  • Gravity

• With each book I write, I become more and more convinced that the books have a life of their own, quite apart from me.

  

  Madeleine L'Engle
  • Life
  • Book
  • Convinced

• Early in the winter of 2002, I gave my life to the Lord. Before I was one, I always thought being a Christian would be boring. In reality, it has been the complete opposite.

  

  Zach Johnson The Fray
  • Life
  • Reality
  • Christian

• I'll be totally honest in that I feel tremendously lucky that I am offered incredible jobs all the time to direct, but the problem that I have just personally is that there are only so many years in my life to dedicate to certain projects.

  

  Lake Bell
  • Life
  • Time
  • Problem

• As time went on, we formed a number of different bands. We played in rival, neighborhood bands. We learned more songs and we learned how to play Chuck Berry music and we learned Ventures songs.

  

  Wayne Kramer
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• The dog is the perfect portrait subject. He doesn't pose. He isn't aware of the camera.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Perfect
  • Dog
  • Camera

• Ecce parens verus patriae.

  

  Lucan

• My father built a small manufacturing business. I worked alongside him and saw firsthand the challenges that business owners face.

  

  Brett Guthrie
  • Business
  • Father
  • Small

• I needed to join the Navy. If you ask the people in Europe who won World War II, they don't say the Allies, they say the United States won the war and saved the world.

  

  Bob Feller
  • People
  • World
  • War

• Coming in, I had no idea basketball would be a career for me, but I grew 7 inches in college and was fortunate to have a great career in the NBA. The experience taught me about service, what our great country was built on, the sacrifices people have made, how to work together and trust the people around you to accomplish a great goal.

  

  David Robinson The Cars
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• If I am comfortable, I say what I want to. But yes, while doing a comedy show, I am slightly reserved as a person. Since it's scripted, it's not a problem. I can manage.

  

  Anita Hassanandani Reddy
  • Comedy

• As a woman, I think Margaret Thatcher felt she had to be ten times more prepared than the men.

  

  Phyllida Lloyd
  • Men
  • She

• All women, whatever be their position, should demand political equality as a means of a freer life, and one calculated to yield rich blessings to society.

  

  Clara Zetkin
  • Life
  • Women
  • Society

• My dad was in the life insurance business, so I learned about selling when I was about 14 because I started working as a secretary.

  

  Annette Bening
  • Life
  • Business
  • Dad

• 'Morning Joe' host Mika Brzezinski's personal life is a minefield. Her father is Zbigniew Brzezinski, former national security adviser to President Jimmy Carter, and while one brother is an Obama appointee, the other advises Romney.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Life
  • Father
  • Morning

• Everybody has fallen asleep on the fact that F1 is dangerous. They all think it's a video game, and it's not. It is very, very dangerous, and it's tough.

  

  Jacques Villeneuve
  • Game

• You embody all that I was ever able to conceive of beauty and fearlessness and strange purity. Therefore it is evident I do not see in you merely Count Emmerick's third sister, but, instead, that ageless lovable and loving woman long worshipped and sought everywhere in vain by all poets.

  

  James Branch Cabell
  • Long
  • Sister

• Being embodied as such is no insurance against feelings of hopelessness or meaningslessness. Beyond his body, he still has to know who he is.

  

  R. D. Laing
  • Insurance