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intelligent men words-of-wisdom
It has always been my opinion since I first possessed such a thing as an opinion, that the man who knows only one subject is next tiresome to the man who knows no subject. Therefore, in the course of my life I have taught myself whatever I could, and although I am not an educated man, I am able, I am thankful to say, to have an intelligent interest in most things. Charles Dickens
intelligent organization anxiety
For the price of intelligence as we now know it is chronic anxiety, anxiety which appears to increase—oddly enough—to the very degree that human life is subjected to intelligent organization. Alan Watts
intelligent men thinking
But, as Douglas E Harding has pointed out, we tend to think of this planet as a life-infested rock, which is as absurd as thinking of the human body as a cell infested skeleton. Surely all forms of life, including man, must be understood as "symptoms" of the earth, the solar system, and the galaxy in which case we cannot escape the conclusion that the galaxy is intelligent. Alan Watts
intelligent frustrated want
Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know. Alan Watts
intelligent technology men
Inability to accept the mystic experience is more than an intellectual handicap. Lack of awareness of the basic unity of organism and environment is a serious and dangerous hallucination. For in a civilization equipped with immense technological power, the sense of alienation between man and nature leads to the use of technology in a hostile spirit—-to the “conquest” of nature instead of intelligent co-operation with nature. Alan Watts
intelligent people
Why is it always the "intelligent" people who are socialists? Alan Bennett
intelligent people creative
Once you have a staff of prepared, intelligent, and energetic people, the next step is to motivate them to be creative. Akio Morita
intelligent thinking rivers
Crash is hyper-articulate and often breathtakingly intelligent and always brazenly alive. I think it's easily the strongest American film since Clint Eastwood's Mystic River, though it is not for the fainthearted. David Denby
intelligent world responsible
As intelligent and responsible filmmakers, working in a free society, we have a duty to ensure that our chosen medium is a force for good. Especially in this ever-more complex and difficult world. David Puttnam
cheerful spirit romeo-and-juliet-play
And all this day an unaccustomed spirit lifts me above the ground with cheerful thoughts. William Shakespeare
cheerful reason yacht
Having a yacht is a reason for being more cheerful than most. Kurt Vonnegut
cheerful cheerfulness i-can
I can't be happy every day but I can be cheerful. Beverly Sills
cheerful possibility faculty
much of the possibility of being cheerful comes from the faculty of throwing oneself beyond oneself ... Elizabeth Barrett Browning
cheerful pessimist
Is there such thing as a cheerful pessimist? That's what I am. Charlie Munger
cheerfully life
I'm cheerfully optimistic about life. Optimism is very important! Terry Jones
cheerfulness churches complex environment hurting lives produces religious required riddle
The required cheerfulness that characterizes many of our churches produces a suffocating environment of pat, religious answers to the painful, complex questions that riddle the lives of hurting people. Tullian Tchividjian
cheerful despair leviathan
In the belly of Leviathan ... one can either despair and perish, or be cheerful and persevere. Dean Koontz
cheerful awful
All the untidyactivity continues, awful but cheerful. Elizabeth Bishop
flower memorable thinking
Pause you who read this, and think for a moment of the long chain of iron or gold, of thorns or flowers, that would never have bound you, but for the formation of the first link on one memorable day. Charles Dickens
flower sleep eye
The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power. Charles Dickens
flower thinking may
Of present fame think little, and of future less; the praises that we receive after we are buried, like the flowers that are strewed over our grave, may be gratifying to the living, but they are nothing to the dead. Charles Caleb Colton
flower eye scary
I saw that the bride within the bridal dress had withered like the dress, and like the flowers, and had no brightness left but the brightness of her sunken eyes. Charles Dickens
flower rain believe
The more a church flourishes, the more, I believe, do hypocrites get in, just as you see many a noxious creeping thing come and get in a garden after a shower of rain. The very things that make glad the flowers bring out these noxious things. And so hypocrites get in and steal much of the church's sap away. Charles Spurgeon
flower giving perfume
Give because you love to give - as the flower pours forth its perfume. Charles Spurgeon
flower garden scripture
No Scripture is exhausted by a single explanation. The flowers of God's garden bloom not only double, but sevenfold; they are continually pouring forth fresh fragrance. Charles Spurgeon
flower humility garden
True humility is a flower which will adorn any garden. Charles Spurgeon
flower long realizing
You will begin to realize that if you contemplate long enough on the leaf of the flower, that it involves the whole universe. Alan Watts