Laura Riding Quotes
The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human – human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.
Quotes to Explore
-
I never race for records. The motivation to try to beat the record is not enough to continue. You have to enjoy it.
-
That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake.
-
I've always been proud that my name stands for peace.
-
I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
-
I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
-
I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.
-
Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
-
A victim is a victim is a victim. We should stop setting up standards that say we will have one standard of law enforcement for one group of victims but not for another.
-
If leaders in the space program had at its beginning in the 1940s, pointed out the benefits to people on earth rather than emphasizing the search for proof of evolution in space, the program would have saved $100 billion in tax money and achieved greater results.
-
We don't need to bring down the rich folk to help the poor.
-
I think everything we do, on one level or another, as writers, most of our writing is informed by our world view.
-
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
-
The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.
-
It's so lovely to know that people who you would never think know about Bollywood, they know about Bollywood.
-
I'm a character actor, but I look like a leading man.
-
You can't propel a nation to move forward if all you are doing is taking something from them.
-
It was weird - writing is a stupid thing to do. I come up here in the morning to a pleasant room in the roof of my house and imagine I'm a black South American football superstar; then I have to imagine I'm a female pop celebrity who's pregnant. It's a completely mad way to spend your time.
-
Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.
-
Something rather frightening takes place, namely a self-fulfilling fame that's come up only in the past decade or so, that does not need to base itself in adaptive skill, or any skill for that matter. All it needs is the fuel of more celebrity, and thus more prestige, and thus more celebrity, and so on ad infinitum.
-
Part of what we have to do a better job of, if our democracy is to function in a complicated diverse society like this, is to teach our kids enough critical thinking to be able to sort out what is true and what is false, what is contestable and what is incontestable. And we seem to have trouble with that. And our political system doesn't help.
-
We can't change the world except insofar as we change the way we look at the world - and, in fact, any one of us can make that change, in any direction, at any moment.
-
I was raised in a very religious home with two parents who were deeply involved in the black church. When I was young, I went to a small black AME church in New Jersey.
-
My parents were singularly uninterested in me. My father was too self-centered and too busy with his own practice to pay a lot of attention to me, and my mother was probably deflected more by my sister.
-
The object of all religious activity is to mingle the human and the non-human, and the lower gods represent that which is cast back to the human from the non-human – human gods merely, practice-gods who embody the errors which man makes in first conceiving the non-human.
