Creation Quotes

• It seems to me that most good protagonists are both clever and resourceful. They are intelligent and can fix things, both little and big. They can come up with inventive solutions others would never think of.

  

  Keren Woodward Bananarama
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Intelligent

• Every act of creation is first an act of destruction.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • First
  • Creation
  • Destruction

• I am not religious, but I am a pious man... A religious man has a definite religion. He says "God is there" or "God is there," "God is there." "Your god is not my god, and that's all." But the pious man, he just looks out with awe, and says, "where is God?" And "well, I don't understand it and I would like to know what this creation really means." That is a pious man, who is really touched by the greatness of nature and of the creation.

  

  Albert Szent-Györgyi
  • Men
  • Mean
  • Religious

• Politics - when it's not cynical, it can be a creation.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Politics
  • Creation
  • Cynical

• For when one has set his heart upon an idea—which is, perhaps, nothing but the creation of his own fancy, as unsubstantial as the castle of a dream—his powers are thenceforth used for the single purpose of making the picture of his imagination stand out as vividly and as like reality as possible.

  

  G. H. Pember
  • Heart
  • Idea
  • Fancy

• For God's will gave men their form, their essence and their abilities. Anyone who destroys His work is declaring war on the Lord's creation, the divine will.

  

  Adolf Hitler
  • War
  • Destroys
  • God's Will

• An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

  

  Man Ray
  • Desire
  • Human
  • Motivated

• St. Francis of Assisi taught me that there is a wound in the Creation and that the greatest use we could make of our lives was to ask to be made a healer of it.

  

  Alan Paton
  • Lives
  • Healer
  • St. Francis

• Whoever is gripped by God's spirit turns to his creation with all the interest that comes from God's love.

  

  Eberhard Arnold
  • People
  • God
  • Spirit

• It was a real shame that the technology wasn't up to the creation that was going on with quad. It just wasn't reaching the consumer in the right way.

  

  Alan Parsons
  • Up
  • Real
  • Way

• The creation of a nuclear weapons convention is not only achievable, it is imperative if civilisation is to survive.

  

  C. G. Weeramantry
  • Creation
  • Weapons
  • Nuclear

• This word "description" may be disconcerting when used to refer to what is generally called a translation. But when one wishes to render a verbal creation (as opposed to a didactic statement) from one language to another, he is confronted with two equally unsatisfactory choices. He may, according to his talents, elaborate a similar, but never identical creation, or he may describe that creation as completely as possible in his own language.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • May
  • Choices
  • Word

• God's greatest tragedy is the creation of mankind.

  

  Nicholas John Frost
  • Creation
  • Mankind
  • Tragedy

• The car (FT86) is not only FUN to drive, but in terms of quality and precision of handling, the car has very much surpassed any expectations I had. More easily put, if you had blind folded me and told me this was a new creation by BMW's M department, I would not even hesitate to believe you. It's that good.

  

  Keiichi Tsuchiya
  • Car
  • Expectations
  • Surpassed

• I really feel a sense of responsibility first as a creation of a force that I call God, that's bigger than myself. And because I'm black, I feel the responsibility to that. I feel the responsibility to my womanness. But more importantly, I feel a responsibility to my humanness.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • God
  • Black
  • Responsibility

• We're responsible for the creation of the PC industry. The whole idea of compatible machines and lots of software - that's something we brought to computing. And so it's a responsibility for us to make sure that things like security don't get in the way of that dream.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Idea
  • PC industry
  • Compatible machines

• Alfred Nobel regretted that his invention, dynamite, was converted to degrading use, hence his creation of the Nobel Prize, as the humanist counter to the destructive power of his genius.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Genius
  • Invention
  • Degrading

• It is man's social nature which distinguishes him from the brute creation. If it is his privilege to be independent, it is equally his duty to be inter-dependent. Only an arrogant man will claim to be independent of everybody else and be self-contained.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Independent
  • Duty
  • Social Nature

• The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Creation
  • Exists
  • Construction

• There is no one who's gonna be sitting on that stage who has the record of job creation I have. There's one in particular who's created jobs all around the world. While he was the governor of Massachusetts he didn't create many jobs.

  

  Rick Perry
  • World
  • Jobs
  • Republican

• Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Choose
  • Creation
  • Act

• The main theme of the Bible is the restoration of humanity and, through humanity, of the whole of creation to its original harmony.

  

  Bede Griffiths
  • Humanity
  • Spiritual
  • Bible

• Out of what was unsettled and ugly, God crafted a new creation.

  

  Jeffery A. Cook Alabama
  • God
  • Ugly
  • Creation

• Nothing belongs more fully to an artist than his creation - even if you give him your youth, your money, your love, your courage, nothing belongs to you.

  

  Consuelo de Saint-Exupéry
  • Artist
  • His
  • Belongs

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