Eileen Caddy Quotes

A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

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• A historical romance is the only kind of book where chastity really counts.

  

  Barbara Cartland
  • Book
  • Kind
  • Where

• Religion is everywhere. There are no human societies without it, whether they acknowledge it as a religion or not.

  

  Octavia E. Butler
  • Religion
  • Human
  • Without

• I started off dancing and playing sports, and I joined the drama stuff, the theatre stuff in middle school because my friends were involved, and it was kind of the cool thing to do.

  

  Kara Lindsay
  • School
  • Friends
  • Cool

• I myself was completely torn by the decision to start Teach For America. There was a voice in my head telling me not to do it - to take a more normal path. I did have one thing going for me, which was that I had been rejected from all the other jobs I'd applied to.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • America
  • Myself
  • Decision

• For the first time in the history of Bihar, I provided a stable government. Despite being denied funds by the Centre, Bihar survived on its resources. I provided pucca dwellings to half a million Dalit families.

  

  Lalu Prasad Yadav
  • Time
  • History
  • Government

• Children are the most desirable opponents at scrabble as they are both easy to beat and fun to cheat.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Children
  • Fun
  • Easy

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

  

  Gamal Abdel Nasser
  • Blood
  • Desert
  • Sand

• Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • High
  • Courage
  • Voice

• In dwelling, live close to the ground. In thinking, keep to the simple. In conflict, be fair and generous. In governing, don't try to control. In work, do what you enjoy. In family life, be completely present.

  

  Lao Tzu
  • Life
  • Work
  • Thinking

• It was the 'Gaucho' album that finished us off. We had pursued an idea beyond the point where it was practical. That album took about two years, and we were working on it all of that time - all these endless tracking sessions involving different musicians. It took forever, and it was a very painful process.

  

  Walter Becker Steely Dan
  • Time
  • Different
  • Forever

• Remember, you can always find East by staring directly at the sun.

  

  Nancy Cartwright
  • Remember
  • Sun
  • Find

• I actually hate shopping.

  

  Kate Bosworth
  • Hate
  • Shopping
  • Actually

• Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.

  

  Caio Fonseca
  • People
  • Mind
  • Eye

• When I was a kid, we weren't really supposed to listen to secular music. But one day, I found a 'Led Zeppelin IV' cassette tape in the garage, and it was just amazing-sounding music, not like anything I'd heard before. I remember thinking: 'Well, if God created music, why is his music in church not as good as this?'

  

  Nathaniel Rateliff
  • Good
  • Music
  • God

• The history of science is rich in example of the fruitfulness of bringing two sets of techniques, two sets of ideas, developed in separate contexts for the pursuit of new truth, into touch with one another.

  

  J. Robert Oppenheimer
  • Truth
  • History
  • Science

• I adore anything Michael Alexis writes.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Anything
  • Adore
  • Michael

• Blemishes are hid by night and every fault forgiven; darkness makes any woman fair.

  

  Ovid
  • Night
  • Woman
  • Darkness

• I wish I was as cocksure of anything as Tom Macaulay is of everything.

  

  Lord Melbourne
  • Wish

• You are built to pull a cart, to lift a heavy load and bear it, to haul up the long slope, and so am I, peasant bodies, earthy, solid shapely dark glazed clay pots that can stand on the fire.

  

  Marge Piercy
  • Up
  • Long
  • Dark

• Biology is far from understanding exactly how a single cell develops into a baby, but research suggests that human development can ultimately be explained in terms of biochemistry and molecular biology. Most scientists would make a similar statement about evolution.

  

  Kenneth R. Miller
  • Single
  • Understanding
  • Baby

• A feeling of alienation existed in India about life in Pakistan because most of what was known was negative. So, everyone used to believe things in our country are always bad, and we don't lead a happy life. But this has changed to some extent. After watching our dramas, people now know that we lead our lives similar to the way they live.

  

  Umera Ahmad
  • People
  • Life
  • Believe

• Actually, I think it's more immoral to use less force than necessary, than it is to use more. if you use less force, you kill off more of humanity in the long run, because you are merely protracting the struggle.

  

  Curtis LeMay
  • Long
  • Humanity
  • Struggle

• A human being is a single being. Unique and unrepeatable.

  

  Eileen Caddy
  • Single
  • Unique