Creation Quotes - page 22

All that the Malays can do is run the police force and the army.... They are not fitted even to the lowlier mechanical skills, such as car maintenance. They are essentially a people who have been pulled out of the kampongs into the towns, and the town in Malaysia seems essentially a Chinese creation.... (Anthony Burgess)
The United States possesses today control of the sea more absolute than was possessed by the British. Our interest in this control is not riches and power as such. It is first the assurance of our national security, and, second, the creation and perpetuation of that balance and stability among nations which will insure to each the right of self-determination under the framework of the United Nations Organization. View quote
Chester W. Nimitz
Creation always involves building upon something else. There is no art that doesn't reuse. And there will be less art if every reuse is taxed by the appropriator. Monopoly controls have been the exception in free societies; they have been the rule in closed societies. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation. View quote
Raymond Queneau
Pray, my dear," quoth my mother, "have you not forgot to wind up the clock?" - "Good G-!" cried my father, making an exclamation, but taking care to moderate his voice at the same time, - "Did ever woman, since the creation of the world, interrupt a man with such a silly question? View quote
Laurence Sterne
The artist is the only one who knows that the world is a subjective creation, that there is a choice to be made, a selection of elements. View quote
Anaïs Nin
I have so strong a sense of creation, of tomorrow, that I cannot get drunk, knowing I will be less alive, less well, less creative the next day. View quote
Anaïs Nin
If what Proust says is true, that happiness is the absence of fever, then I will never know happiness. For I am possessed by a fever for knowledge, experience, and creation. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Only in the fever of creation could she recreate her own lost life. View quote
Anaïs Nin
Drugs have nothing to do with the creation of music. In fact, they are dumb and self indulgent. Kind of like sucking your thumb! View quote
Courtney Love
The Master once referred to the Hindu notion that all creation is "leela" - God's play - and the universe is his playground. The aim of spirituality, he claimed, is to make all life play. This seemed too frivolous for a puritanical visitor. "Is their no room then for work?" "Of course there is. But work becomes spiritual only when it is transformed into play." (Anthony de Mello)
Before creation Love was. After creation love is made. When love is consummated, creation will cease to be, and Love will be forever. View quote
Anthony de Mello
The truth is that the family, like marriage, is one of those institutions whose very importance renders them complex. Abstract ideas are the only simple ones, because they have little to do with life. The family is not the arbitrary creation of a legislator; it is a natural consequence of the division of the species into two sexes, of the human child's protracted helplessness, of maternal love which ministers to this helplessness, of paternal love which is far more artificial and recent in human history, and composed just as much of love for the mother as of that for the child. View quote
André Maurois
Bow before him, all creation! Mortals, own the God of love! Seek him high the stars above,- Yonder is his habitation! View quote
Friedrich Schiller
For if we may compare infinities, it would seem to require a greater infinity of power to cause the causes of effects, than to cause the effects themselves. This idea is analogous to the improving excellence observable in every part of the creation; such as in the progressive increase of the solid or habitable parts of the earth from water; and in the progressive increase of the wisdom and happiness of its inhabitants; and is consonant to the idea of our present situation being a state of probation, which by our exertion we may improve, and are consequently responsible for our actions. View quote
Erasmus Darwin
Body experience... is the centre of creation. View quote
Barbara Hepworth
The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit. View quote
Jodi Picoult
The more doubt you have, the less likely it is that the creation will come to life. View quote
Yanni
Yet the Fascist State is unique, and an original creation. It is not reactionary, but revolutionary, in that it anticipates the solution of the universal political problems which elsewhere have to be settled in the political field by the rivalry of parties, the excessive power of the Parliamentary regime and the irresponsibility of political assemblies. View quote
Benito Mussolini
Science is now in the process of destroying religious dogma. The dogma of the divine creation is recognized as absurd. View quote
Benito Mussolini
The better sort here pretend to the utmost compassion for animals of every kind. To hear them speak, a stranger would be apt to imagine they could hardly hurt the gnat that stung them: they seem so tender and so full of pity, that one would take them for the harmless friends of the whole creation; the protectors of the meanest insect or reptile that was privileged with existence. And yet, would you believe it? I have seen the very men who have thus boasted of their tenderness, at the same time devouring the flesh of six different animals toasted up in a fricassee. Strange contrariety of conduct! they pity and they eat the objects of their compassion. (Oliver Goldsmith)
Everything's sliding apart. Yet, "Long live everything!" For the art of creation Is older than the art of killing. View quote
Andrey Voznesensky
doctors have come from distant cities just to see me stand over my bed disbelieving what they're seeing they say I must be one of the wonders of god's own creation and as far as they can see they can offer no explanation. View quote
Natalie Merchant
You know that if you had been in charge of creation you would have found some medium less heart-breaking than Time to stage it in. View quote
Brian Aldiss
In a vision I beheld the fullness of God in which I beheld and comprehended the whole creation, that is, what is on this side and what is beyond the sea, the abyss, the sea itself, and everything else. And in everything that I saw, I could perceive nothing except the presence of the power of God, and in a manner totally indescribable. And my soul in an excess of wonder cried out: "This world is pregnant with God!" Wherefore I understood how small is the whole of creation -- that is, what is on this side and what is beyond the sea, the abyss, the sea itself, and everything else -- but the power of God fills it all to overflowing. View quote
Angela of Foligno