Antonio Porchia Quotes

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• I see no reason to hide who I am or what I look like.

  

  Lara St. John
  • Look
  • Hide

• If you have religious faith, very good, you can add on secular ethics, then religious belief, add on it, very good. But even those people who have no interest about religion, okay, it's not religion, but you can train through education.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Good
  • Faith

• Cultivation of mind should be the ultimate aim of human existence.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Mind
  • Existence
  • Aim

• They defended the grains of sand in the desert to the last drop of their blood.

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Blood
  • Desert
  • Sand

• I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • People
  • Time
  • Period

• Too often, I've seen instances where we have an idea of what we want to be, where we want to go, and with whom - before life steps in the way, throws something at us that is beyond our control, and changes everything.

  

  Barbara Delinsky
  • Life
  • Control
  • Changes

• If you must get rid of a roach, use mechanical control.

  

  Carl Olson
  • You
  • Control
  • Mechanical

• The Louvre for me is a wonderful experience. Because it continues; it didn't get cut off. It was actually a continuous involvement all the way, and a lot of people have come and gone, come and gone; but I'm still here.

  

  I. M. Pei
  • People
  • Experience
  • Me

• I've done a lot of films that all have been pretty edgy.

  

  Ja Rule
  • Done
  • Pretty
  • Edgy

• Fracking kills, and it doesn't just kill us. It kills the land, nature and, eventually, the whole world.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • World
  • Nature
  • Land

• I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Week

• There is a paradox. In retaining this integrity, the writer sometimes must risk both the state's indictment of treason, and the liberation forces' complaint of lack of blind commitment.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Risk
  • Commitment
  • Integrity

• While it is beyond our comprehension that eternity should meet us in time, yet it is true because in Jesus Christ eternity has become time.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Time
  • True
  • Jesus

• A very short trial convinced her that a curricle was the prettiest equipage in the world

  

  Jane Austen
  • World

• One must let the play happen to one; one must let the mind loose to respond as it will, to receive impressions, to sense rather than know, to gather rather than immediately understand.

  

  Edward Albee
  • Mind

• This is something you can never erase. It leaves a scar on you.

  

  Ai Weiwei

• For legislators make the citizens good by forming habits in them, and this is the wish of every legislator, and those who do not effect it miss their mark, and it is in this that a good constitution differs from a bad one.

  

  Aristotle
  • Constitution
  • Citizens
  • Habits

• My favorite part on 'Energy Fields,' at the end of the track is a little girl laughing, and to me, it's a child watching the world, her friends, and so-called grownup people, and the way they try to understand the world.

  

  Dave Davies The Kinks
  • People
  • World
  • Friends

• Being away from home was tough, but the challenge and the thrill of being on Broadway was so fulfilling, and I'm thankful to my husband for making it possible and holding it down at home.

  

  Nicole Ari Parker-Kodjoe
  • Home
  • Husband
  • Challenges

• I've been to so many parties in England and in America that's exactly like that, where you're kind of, like, seen as Other. When you're just living your life, and you have to adopt the Other in order to understand and navigate the society.

  

  Daniel Kaluuya
  • Life
  • America
  • Society

• Learning ballet is wonderful for children even if they never become dancers. It is wonderful because it teaches discipline, grace, and manners.

  

  Anna Paskevska
  • Children
  • Discipline
  • Ballet

• We are in a far better position to observe instincts in animals or in primitives than in ourselves. This is due to the fact that we have grown accustomed to scrutinizing our own actions and to seeking rational explanations for them.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Better
  • Animals
  • Instincts

• I love Bruce Springsteen's writing, but I grew up on '90s hip hop, like Tribe Called Quest.

  

  Mat Kearney
  • Up
  • Writing

• Voy perdiendo el deseo de lo que busco, buscando lo que deseo.

  

  Antonio Porchia