Creation Quotes

• My fear represented the failure of the human system. It is a sad truth of our creation: Something is amiss in our design, there are loose ends of our psychology that are simply not wrapped up. My fears were the dirty secrets of evolution. They were not provided for, and I was forced to construct elaborate temples to house them.

  

  Steve Martin
  • House
  • Design
  • Secret

• Once I found out the secret of the universe. I have forgotten what it was, but I know that the Creator does not take Creation seriously, for I remember that He sat in Space with all His work in front of Him and laughed.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Work
  • Remember
  • Space

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

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Choose
  • Creation
  • Act

• The whole story of creation, incarnation, and our incorporation into the fellowship of Christ's body tells us that God desires us, as if we were God, as if we were that unconditional response to God's giving that God's self makes in the life of the Trinity. We are created so that we may be caught up in this, so that we may grow into the wholehearted love of God by learning that God loves us as God loves God.

  

  Rowan Williams
  • Desire
  • Body
  • Christ

• 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

• Three years ago the Government announced the creation of Reconciliation Place, and said that it would include a memorial to those removed from their families. However, they refused to include any of those who were removed in the design of their own memorial.

  

  Malcolm Fraser
  • Government
  • Design
  • Memorial

• The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.

  

  Amy Poehler
  • Theatre
  • Professional
  • Accomplishment

• A lot of problems we are facing, essentially, man made problem. Own creation. Not due to lack of intelligence.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Men
  • Problem
  • Creation

• The first and most important necessity is the creation of a modus vivendi with the Arab people.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • People
  • Important
  • Necessity

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

  

  Jeffery A. Cook Alabama
  • God
  • Ugly
  • Creation

• Heaven and Hell are imaginary creation of ignorant minds.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Creation
  • Heaven And Hell
  • Ignorant Minds

• It appears that the present-day form of African American English is not the inheritance of the period of slavery, but the creation of the second half of the 20th century.

  

  William Labov
  • Slavery
  • Form
  • Century

• The government can destroy wealth but it cannot create wealth, which is the product of labor and management working with creation.

  

  Bill Murray
  • Government
  • Management
  • Wealth

• Literature sucks you into another psyche. So the creation of empathy necessarily influences how you'll behave to other people.

  

  Barbara Kingsolver
  • People
  • Literature
  • Empathy

• Any one thing in the creation is sufficient to demonstrate a Providence to a humble and grateful mind.

  

  Epictetus
  • Creation
  • Providence
  • Sufficient

• All things are created twice. There is a mental (first) creation, and a physical (second) creation. The physical creation follows the mental, just as a building follows a blueprint. If you don't make a conscious effort to visualize who you are and what you want in life, then you empower other people and circumstances to shape you and your life by default.

  

  Stephen Covey
  • Dream
  • Effort
  • Building

• To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

  

  Victor Hugo
  • Law
  • Miracle
  • Fanaticism

• Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

  

  Cordell Hull
  • World
  • War
  • Reality

• Mozart encompasses the entire domain of musical creation, but I've got only the keyboard in my poor head.

  

  Frederic Chopin
  • Musical
  • Mozart
  • Keyboard

• Light was first Through the Lord's word Named day: Beauteous, bright creation!

  

  Caedmon
  • Light
  • Firsts
  • Creation

• The almost universal gift everyone can develop is the creation of a pleasant disposition, an even temperament.

  

  L. Tom Perry
  • Creation
  • Temperament
  • Disposition

• Now sexual obsessions are the basis of artistic creation. Accumulated frustration leads to what Freud calls the process of sublimation. Anything that does not take place erotically sublimates itself in the work of art.

  

  Salvador Dali
  • Art
  • Creation
  • Frustration

• If the Lord Almighty had consulted me before embarking upon his creation, I should have recommended something simpler.

  

  Alfonso X of Castile
  • Creation
  • Simpler
  • Lord Almighty

• Know thyself as the pride of His creation, the link uniting divinity and matter; behold a part of God Himself within thee; remember thine own dignity nor dare descend to evil or meanness.

  

  Akhenaton
  • God
  • Remember
  • Pride

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