Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

Anxiety is the fear that one of a pair of opposites might cancel the other. Forever.

Alan Watts

But nirvana is a radical transformation of how it feels to be alive: it feels as if everything were myself, or as if everything---including "my" thoughts and actions---were happening of itself. There are still efforts, choices, and decisions, but not the sense that "I make them"; they arise of themselves in relation to circumstances. This is therefore to feel life, not as an encounter between subject and object, but as a polarized field where the contest of opposites has become the play of opposites.

Alan Watts

A holy person is someone who is whole; who has, as it were, reconciled his opposites.

Akshay Kumar

I enjoy the risk of bungee-jumping. I used to pay money to do it. Now, it's the opposite. I get paid to do action.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

To escape the error of salvation by works we have fallen into the opposite error of salvation without obedience.

Chita Rivera

You can feel whether an audience is tightened up and pulled back. Of course the opposite is an audience like we've been having in LA, which is fabulous.

China Mieville

A city like London was always going to be a paradox, the best of it so very riddled with the opposite, so Swiss-cheesed with moral holes.

Eddie Huang

People ask me what my greatest strengths are and I say perspective. The best way to get that is to meet people that are polar opposites; you learn the most from them. There are pieces of you that are inherently yours, but everything else is a collection of the things you’ve seen and the people you’ve met.

Deepika Padukone

I've grown up watching Shah Rukh Khan and never really imagined that one day I will get to play the lead opposite him.

Al Ries

Advertising is the way great brands get to be great brands.

Al Pacino

I used to say I wanted to genuflect to a woman, put her up on a pedestal higher and higher, way up beyond my grasp...Then I'd find another one.

Al Pacino

There was a time in my life when being dishonest with women was the natural way to be. I finally said, "Hey, I have to stop this silliness."

Al Pacino

It turned out that time doesn't heal the wound , but in its so merciful way , blunts the edges ever so slightly

Al Lewis

But find something that you absolutely love doing. And then get to love the way you do it. That's the uniqueness of all of us. That's it.

Akshay Kumar

I do not hold God ransom to my success; whatever is his will is my way. I stand by moments; I do not stand by time.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

The importance of coming into God's presence is worth overcoming all obstacles along the way.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

There is a better way. It is to repudiate our own wisdom and take instead the infinite wisdom of God.

Aiden Wilson Tozer

Because we have shut out the Holy Spirit in so many ways, we are stumbling along as though we are spiritually blindfolded.

Blaise Pascal

Philosophers.-We are full of things which take us out of ourselves.

Chris Ullman

We are Uzhbi, a consortium of pygmy philosophers.

Alfred Korzybski

It is now no mystery that some quite influential 'philosophers' were 'mentally' ill.

Sun Ra

I'm not a minister, I'm not a philosopher, I'm not a politician, I'm in another category.

Ray Bradbury

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Matthew Arnold

Coleridge: poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.

Plato

States will never be happy until rulers become philosophers or philosophers become rulers.

Nick Harkaway

It's usually best not to ask philosophers anything, precisely because they have the habit of what in the Persian language is called sanud: the profitless consideration of unsettling yet inconsequential things.

Mortimer Adler

Theories of love are found in the works of scientists, philosophers, and theologians.