Comes Quotes - page 10

Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and regimented and depressed to such an extent that it needs at least a vicarious participation in difficult feats of strength or skill or heroism in order to sustain its waning life-sense. (Lewis Mumford)
Unable to create a meaningful life for itself, the personality takes its own revenge from the lower depths comes a regressive form of spontaneity raw animality forms a counterpoise to the meaningless stimuli and the vicarious life to which the ordinary man is conditioned. Getting spiritual nourishment from this chaos of events, sensations, and devious interpretations is the equivalent of trying to pick through a garbage pile for food. View quote
Lewis Mumford
Propriety is that perfection of style which comes when a work is authoritatively constructed on approved principles. It arises from prescription, from usage, or from nature. View quote
Vitruvius
The goal of mankind is knowledge ... Now this knowledge is inherent in man. No knowledge comes from outside it is all inside. What we say a man 'knows', should, in strict psychological language, be what he 'discovers' or 'unveils' what man 'learns' is really what he discovers by taking the cover off his own soul, which is a mine of infinite knowledge. View quote
Swami Vivekananda
Welcome anything that comes to you, but do not long for anything else. View quote
André Gide
When nature removes a great man, people explore the horizon for a successor but none comes, and none will. His class is extinguished with him. In some other and quite different field, the next man will appear. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A ruddy drop of manly blood The surging sea outweighs The world uncertain comes and goes, The lover rooted stays. View quote
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Along with success comes a reputation for wisdom. View quote
Euripides
And what 's impossible can't be, And never, never comes to pass. View quote
George Colman the Younger
When I think about my new CD, the word 'joy' comes to mind. I sincerely hope that each listener will feel the earth, spirit, and aggressive creativity emanating from this album. View quote
George Duke
I had to resign myself, many years ago, that I'm not too articulate when it comes to explaining how I feel about things. But my music does it for me, it really does. (David Bowie)
The only place success comes before work is in the dictionary. View quote
Vince Lombardi
If the battle for civilization comes down to the wimps versus the barbarians, the barbarians are going to win. View quote
Thomas Sowell
Passion is energy. Feel the power that comes from focusing on what excites you. View quote
Oprah Winfrey
And there comes a time in your life when you realize that if you don't take the opportunity to be happy, you may never get another chance again. View quote
Richard Russo
When it comes to human dignity, we cannot make compromises. View quote
Angela Merkel
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life. View quote
Lord Byron
Everything that goes into my mouth seems to make me fat, everything that comes out of my mouth embarrasses me. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
The man with insight enough to admit his limitations comes nearest to perfection. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. View quote
Hannah Arendt
Dialectical logic undoes the abstractions of formal logic and of transcendental philosophy, but it also denies the concreteness of immediate experience. To the extent to which this experience comes to rest with the things as they appear and happen to be, it is a limited and even false experience. It attains its truth if it has freed itself from the deceptive objectivity which conceals the factors behind the facts - that is, if it understands its world as a historical universe, in which the established facts are the work of the historical practice of man. (Herbert Marcuse)
Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further. View quote
Søren Kierkegaard
Every time I try to retire, or even think of retiring from acting, my agent comes up with a script. View quote
Anthony Hopkins
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. View quote
Mignon McLaughlin
I approach playing acoustic guitar more of as a percussive instrument. It's fragile. I don't have a lot of finesse when it comes to my guitar playing. View quote
Billie Joe Armstrong