Gabriel Marcel Quotes

The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

Gabriel Marcel

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• I want you to feel happy and enjoy the theatre of my life the way that I do. No matter what happens with my music and wherever I go - that heart of that glamorous girl in New York will never be gone.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Life
  • Music
  • Heart

• I guess, for better or for worse, I am an American composer, and I've had a wonderful life being exactly that.

  

  Samuel Barber
  • Life
  • Wonderful
  • Composer

• Desire is the very essence of man.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Very

• A lot has been written about Tony Perkins and myself and I figured, Let's get it straight. I had a relationship with Tony for two to three years, but those are only threads in the tapestry of my whole life.

  

  Tab Hunter
  • Life
  • Relationship
  • Myself

• When we meet real tragedy in life, we can react in two ways - either by losing hope and falling into self-destructive habits, or by using the challenge to find our inner strength. Thanks to the teachings of Buddha, I have been able to take this second way.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Life
  • Real
  • Hope

• Sharia law does not exist in the Koran. It was created by man.

  

  Fatema Mernissi
  • Man
  • Law
  • Exist

• I'm now happily remarried to a good cook, which encourages me to be lazy. I like to think that I'm a new man, but perhaps I'm not. I offset it by doing the ironing, though. She has a small farm in the New Forest with a herd of cattle, so she serves up a steak and kidney pie made with her own beef.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Up
  • Good
  • She

• I listened to country music my whole life. I started writing music when I was a teenager. It all came out country.

  

  Laura Bell Bundy
  • Life
  • Music
  • Writing

• We always knew how to honor fallen soldiers. They were killed for our sake, they went out on our mission. But how are we to mourn a random man killed in a terrorist attack while sitting in a cafe? How do you mourn a housewife who got on a bus and never returned?

  

  A. B. Yehoshua
  • Man
  • Honor
  • Random

• Death has its revelations: the great sorrows which open the heart open the mind as well; light comes to us with our grief. As for me, I have faith; I believe in a future life. How could I do otherwise? My daughter was a soul; I saw this soul. I touched it, so to speak.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Life
  • Great
  • Believe

• I've not given up having a child. But I hope whatever route of parenthood I choose, whether it's adoption or I'm able to conceive, I just hope that I'm able to give someone as beautiful a life as my parents gave me.

  

  Tamron Hall
  • Life
  • Up
  • Hope

• Everyone's like, 'Oh, you must live in L.A., the glamorous life,' and I really don't. I'm in a small house, in Pittsburgh, in the snow.

  

  Maddie Ziegler
  • Life
  • Live
  • House

• That's the kind of consumer society we live in. We're always looking for the next product that's going to change your life instead of just going out and changing your life.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Life
  • Live
  • Society

• Soon after, I returned home to my family, with a determination to bring them as soon as possible to live in Kentucky, which I esteemed a second paradise, at the risk of my life and fortune.

  

  Daniel Boone
  • Life
  • Live
  • Family

• Just like gold, which has to weather very high temperatures to achieve the sheen and shine it finally gets, so also every person has to go through struggles in his life to achieve success.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Life
  • High
  • Success

• If someone saves your life, you develop a brotherhood, no matter what your race.

  

  Omar Epps
  • Life
  • Race
  • Brotherhood

• There is no god, so how can I consider myself a god? God is the greatest lie invented by man.

  

  Rajneesh
  • God
  • Man
  • Myself

• A little jewellery on a man is OK, although he should never wear too much. Every man should always have a great watch.

  

  Tamara Mellon
  • Great
  • Man
  • Too Much

• Suspicion is one of the morbid reactions by which an organism defends itself and seeks another equilibrium.

  

  Nathalie Sarraute
  • Which
  • Equilibrium
  • Morbid

• The sage never seems to know his own merits, for only by not noticing them can you call others' attention to them.

  

  Baltasar Gracian
  • Attention
  • Merit
  • Sage

• The thing that's tricky is sometimes the best voices - just because someone hits the big notes and sounds amazing - it doesn't necessarily mean they make the greatest artists.

  

  Kara DioGuardi
  • Amazing
  • Best
  • Greatest

• [As] authorities "over" us are removed, as we wobble out on our own, the question of whether to be or not to be arises with real relevance for the first time, since the burden of being is felt most fully by the self-determining self.

  

  William H. Gass
  • Time
  • Real
  • Authority

• Success is nice, but it shouldn't be the only reason why you're a musician.

  

  Chester Bennington Linkin Park
  • Success
  • Reason
  • Musician

• The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Life
  • Man
  • Wise