Inside Quotes - page 4

Every block of stone has a statue inside it and it is the task of the sculptor to discover it. (Michelangelo)
Real revolutionaries adorn themselves on the inside, not on the surface. View quote
Che Guevara
Nonconformists travel as a rule in bunches. You rarely find a nonconformist who goes it alone. And woe to him inside a nonconformist clique who does not conform with nonconformity. View quote
Eric Hoffer
Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all the others were making ships. View quote
Charles Simic
It is said that no-one truly knows a nation until one has been inside its jails. A nation should not be judged by how it treats its highest citizens, but its lowest ones, Mr Mandela has said. View quote
Nelson Mandela
Users do not care about what is inside the box, as long as the box does what they need done. View quote
Jef Raskin
Sometimes thinking back on things is a mistake arising out of pride, but I guess you live inside a moment for years, move with it and feel it grow, and it sends out roots until it touches everything in sight. View quote
Colum McCann
Your reality, isn't restricted by this cell we live in. If you read something, if you study something, you transcend any cell you're inside of. View quote
Manuel Puig
And then I thought that I had to be like Sherlock Holmes and I had to detach my mind at will to a remarkable degree so that I did not notice how much it was hurting inside my head. View quote
Mark Haddon
God, I felt certain, did not mind that I didn't press my hands together to pray. I was casual, but I was sincere. I knew that God existed as the Correct Answer inside my chest. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
You cannot be a prisoner of your past against your will. Because you can only live in the past inside your mind. (Augusten Burroughs)
I loved most when his eyelashes twitched and he blinked, and suddenly happiness was there inside his eyes. Unmistakable. Like a single word printed on a clean white page. View quote
Augusten Burroughs
The size of your body is just right. The only question is whether you're big enough inside. View quote
Patrick Carman
But what many psychologists have done, probably because they did well on a test themselves and everyone wants high self esteem, is to create this little box and then do their research inside it. View quote
Robert Sternberg
In some situations however, when you are deeply with your problem, you feel at home anywhere just thinking about your problem. Some of my best work was done in hotels, on the train, and there's no rule. More important when you think is what goes on inside rather outside. [...] The best thoughts can be nearly everywhere. View quote
Cédric Villani
In the West there has always been the attempt to try make the religious building, whether it's a Medieval or Renaissance church, an eternal object for the celebration of God. The material chosen, such as stone, brick, or concrete, is meant to eternally preserve what is inside. View quote
Tadao Ando
There's not some finite amount of pain inside us. Our bodies and minds just keep manufacturing more of it. (67) View quote
Tom Perrotta
Eighty percent of our life is emotion, and only 20 percent is intellect. I am much more interested in how you feel than how you think. I can change how you think, but how you feel is something deeper and stronger, and it's something that's inside you. View quote
Frank Luntz
Where you are is who you are. The further inside you the place moves, the more your identity is intertwined with it. Never casual, the choice of place is the choice of something you crave. View quote
Frances Mayes
The good inside of all of us is wrapped in a layer of apathy, and we forget how much potential we have within us, in each and every one of us, to change the world for the better for ourselves and our children, and thus to bring about oneness. View quote
Shari Arison
It's more than a job. It's very personal, so when you're hurt, you're really hurt inside. (Charlotte Gainsbourg)
I started to understand that for me, art was no longer about self-expression but about creative engagement with the world. I started to respond in an excited way to making work inside an industry and not feeling the constraints of audience expectation as some kind of thing that I should avoid. View quote
Ayad Akhtar
For me, the martial arts is a search for something inside. It's not just a physical discipline. View quote
Brandon Lee
Real socialism is inside man. It wasn't born with Marx. It was in the communes of Italy in the Middle Ages. You can't say it is finished. View quote
Dario Fo
Most men act so tough and strong on the outside because on the inside, we are scared, weak, and fragile. Men, not women, are the weaker sex. View quote
Jerry Rubin