Clarence Day Quotes

The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

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• One could surely argue that the Buddhist tradition, taken as a whole, represents the richest source of contemplative wisdom that any civilization has produced.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Taken
  • Wisdom
  • Tradition

• On some level, you could say you wouldn't have 'In Style Magazine' at all had Anna Wintour not decided to put celebrities on the cover of 'Vogue' from her earliest years as Editor in Chief.

  

  R. J. Cutler
  • Style
  • Level
  • Chief

• The longest journey is the journey inwards. Of him who has chosen his destiny, Who has started upon his quest for the source of his being.

  

  Dag Hammarskjold
  • Journey
  • Destiny
  • Source

• The chief glory of every people arises from its authors.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • People
  • Glory
  • Chief

• 80 percent of our global fish stocks are fully exploited, overly exploited or have collapsed. Two billion people rely on the oceans for their primary source of protein.

  

  Barton Seaver
  • People
  • Source
  • Fish

• Definitely, a non-tribal can become chief minister in Jharkhand.

  

  Kariya Munda
  • Become
  • Chief
  • Minister

• A thief believes everybody steals.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • Everybody
  • Thief
  • Steals

• All the things worth writing about are outside me. I'm a lens, not a source. And even if it's not always a comfortable journey, it's always a stimulating one.

  

  Karen Traviss
  • Journey
  • Comfortable
  • Worth

• Keyboardists whose chief asset is mere technique . . . more often than not astound us with their prowess without ever touching our sensibilities. They overwhelm our hearing without satisfying it and stun the mind without moving it.

  

  Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
  • Mind
  • Moving
  • Chief

• I also think that life itself is both indifferent to us and the source of all of our joys and everything that we love. And it's necessary to accept the one in order to love the other.

  

  W. S. Merwin
  • Life
  • Source
  • Joys

• Never focus your eyes on the obstacle or the difficulty. The obstacle will be a matter of total indifference to the river that will flow steadily through you if you will simply remember to stay focused on the Source.

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • Remember
  • Eyes
  • Focus

• The play is the source, it is orchestrated with words. In a movie, you are not dealing with as much as that. There are machines and wires. When you're acting for a camera, it keeps taking and never giving back.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Movie
  • Giving
  • Words

• He was always late on principle, his principle being that punctuality is the thief of time.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Time
  • Being
  • Principle

• Go to the source for ideas, go to the Metropolitan Museum, find your inspiration in nature, go to the Museum of Natural History, but never rely on something that someone else has done.

  

  Van Day Truex
  • History
  • Nature
  • Ideas

• Private information is practically the source of every large modern fortune.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Information
  • Modern
  • Fortune

• How can we eliminate the deepest source of all unsatisfactory experience? Only by cultivating certain qualities within our mindstream.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Experience
  • Quality
  • Certain

• Foolish talking and jesting are not the ways in which Christian cheerfulness should express itself, but rather "giving of thanks" (Eph. 5:4). Religion is the source of joy and gladness, but its joy is expressed in a religious way, in thanksgiving and praise.

  

  Charles Hodge
  • Giving
  • Joy
  • Christian

• The source of all life and knowledge is in man and woman, and the source of all living is in the interchange and the meeting and mingling of these two: man-life and woman-life, man-knowledge and woman-knowledge , man-being and woman-being.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Source

• You can look at my autobiographical pieces as source books... But, you see, my fiction doesn't revolve around autobiographical questions.

  

  Paul Auster
  • Book
  • Looks
  • Fiction

• People want to be thought of as something other than a source of money. They want to be thought of as creative, thinking people.

  

  Ethan Zuckerman
  • Creative
  • Source

• There's much that goes to the makin' of a man or woman into somethin' better than a brute beast, but there's three things in chief, an' they're the places where life sets us down, an' the folks life knocks us up against, an' -- not the things ye get, but the things ye don't get.

  

  Elizabeth Goudge
  • Women
  • Folks
  • Chief

• As we live our truths, we will communicate across all barriers, speaking for the sources of peace. Peace that is not lack of war, but fierce and positive.

  

  Muriel Rukeyser
  • Communicate
  • Source
  • Fierce

• If an offender has committed murder, he must die. In this case, no possible substitute can satisfy justice. For there is no parallel between death and even the most miserable life, so that there is no equality of crime and retribution unless the perpetrator is judicially put to death.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Death
  • Justice
  • Murder

• The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.

  

  Clarence Day
  • Source
  • Chief
  • Thief