Born Quotes - page 25

Ideas are somewhat like babies--they are born small, immature, and shapeless. They are promise rather than fulfillment. In the innovative company executives do not say, "This is a damn-fool idea." Instead they ask, "What would be needed to make this embryonic, half-baked, foolish idea into something that makes sense, that is an opportunity for us?" (Peter Drucker)
Man is born unto the trouble as the sparks fly upwards." In other words suffering is germane to our existence; indeed, how without it, should we be able to "fly upwards. View quote
Andrei Tarkovsky
Every child is born blessed with a vivid imagination. But just as a muscle grows flabby with disuse, so the bright imagination of a child pales in later years if he ceases to exercise it. View quote
Walt Disney
Make way, you Roman writers, make way, Greeks! Something greater than the Iliad is born. View quote
Propertius
I wish I had never been born," she said. "What are we born for?" "For infinite happiness," said the Spirit. "You can step out into it at any moment... View quote
C. S. Lewis
We are born helpless. As soon as we are fully conscious we discover loneliness. We need others physically, emotionally, intellectually; we need them if we are to know anything, even ourselves. View quote
C. S. Lewis
We weep when we are born, not when we die! View quote
Thomas Bailey Aldrich
What is good? All that heightens the feeling of power, the will to power, power itself. What is bad? All that is born of weakness. What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
Characters are born from necessity. View quote
Christopher Paolini
I was not the one to invent lies: they were created in a society divided by class and each of us inherited lies when we were born. It is not by refusing to lie that we will abolish lies: it is by eradicating class by any means necessary. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
Some men are born committed to action: they do not have a choice, they have been thrown on a path, at the end of that path, an act awaits them, their act. (Jean-Paul Sartre)
In our truly remarkable an unexampled civil peace, where there are rarely fist fights; where no one is born, is gravely ill, or dies; where meat is eaten but no one sees an animal slaughtered; where scores of millions of cars, trains, elevators, and airplanes go their scheduled way and there is rarely a crash; where an immense production proceeds in orderly efficiency and the shelves are duly clears-and nevertheless none of this come to joy or tragic grief or any other final good-it is not surprising if there are explosions. View quote
Paul Goodman
A theologian is born by living, nay dying and being damned, not by thinking, reading, or speculating. View quote
Martin Luther
Religion is not 'doctrinal knowledge,' but wisdom born of personal experience. View quote
Martin Luther
We are not born of the passions of war or of the fervours of revolution. And we grew quietly into the realization that, set as we are in a great wide land, with all our differences, there are certain traditions and ideals which we had in common, and which could best be preserved in a distinct society of our own. View quote
Vincent Massey
It is not as a child that I believe and confess Jesus Christ. My hosanna is born of a furnace of doubt. View quote
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
With regard to the freedom of the individual for choice with regard to abortion, there's one individual who's not being considered at all. That's the one who is being aborted. And I've noticed that everybody that is for abortion has already been born. View quote
Ronald Reagan
I was born too late for steam trains and a lazy eye meant I'd never be an astronaut. View quote
Mark Haddon
Success is born out of arrogance, but greatness comes from humility. View quote
Marco Pierre White
The song was born on her breathe and died at her lips. View quote
Markus Zusak
I grew up weird - very sensitive and highly inhibited. I felt like I was born in the wrong time zone to the wrong people at the wrong place. (Marla Gibbs)
I took the life of the woman I was supposed to call mother in the process of being born... in order to become the world's strongest shinobi... an incarnation of sand was implanted inside of me... View quote
Masashi Kishimoto
anybody can be a princess. all you have todo is have the right parents. it's no harder than being born Paris Hilton, for God's sake. at least you remember to put on underwear in the morning, i'm assuming. View quote
Meg Cabot
I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead when all I wanted to do was die. Each time someone tried to kill me, it sang its tune and gave me hope. View quote
Melina Marchetta
Some commentators have drawn such a stark and gloomy picture of the Weimar Republic's early difficulties that the Republic seems foredoomed to failure from the outset... The conditions in which Weimar democracy were born were certainly not such as to help it flourish; and as it unfolded, it was clearly saddled with a burden of problems, in a range of areas. View quote
Mary Fulbrook