Ideas Quotes · Page 49

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation...

— Thomas Sowell

Purity of action guided Janis's behavior. If she was going to be good, she was very, very good. If she was going…

— Laura Joplin

“I noticed that religion gave some people a way to escape dealing with the world: “Things will be better when you die,”…

— Wynton Marsalis

Mr. Wenger could have moved on to another club, I am sure, but instead chose to stay and build something over the…

— Lukas Podolski

When [Satan] undertook to draw Eve away from God, he did not hit her with a stick, but with an idea. It…

— Dallas Willard

I spent more than ten years working on the Neues Museum. It was a wonderful experience, an example of real collaboration between…

— David Chipperfield

Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

— Rafael Sabatini

Conservatism is less a set of ideas than it is a pathological distemper, a militant anger over the fact that the universe…

— Bill Moyers

Newton's law is nothing but the statistics of gravitation, it has no power whatever. Let us get rid of the idea of…

— Florence Nightingale

Childhood has been idealised as a lost garden paradise to which we can never return. We are excluded from this world of…

— Loretta Lux

Whatever men you take, keep the idea of man intact: let your soul wait whether your body does or not.

— D. H. Lawrence

The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.

— Edith Wharton

I really like the idea of banality and repetition being used to generate the image, which are simple and unobstructed and not…

— Doug Aitken

[I hate] the ways that people want their special needs to be met, whether it's their food allergies or their special lotions…

— Carrie Brownstein

Meetings are places where dead ideas rise from their graves and eat the brains of the living.

— Dave Barry

The idea that because you're born in Haiti you could die having a child. The idea that because you're born in you…

— Paul Farmer

I'm still hungry. I've still got a million ideas. I'm still strong and ready to create.

— Barry Manilow

And through a dark night of the soul, I came to realize that salvation happens through a mysterious, indefinable, relational interaction with…

— Donald Miller

One of the great sadnesses of modern life, because of our disenfranchisement and disillusionment with religion, is that we don't have access…

— Russell Brand

Men in general are too material and do not make enough human contacts. If we search for the fundamentals which actually motivate…

— Edward S. Jordan

I was not a very popular kid in high school, and I had this idea that the way that I dressed would…

— Joseph Altuzarra

When we commune with the spirit within and ask for new ideas, they are always forthcoming.

— Charles Fillmore

Even if it doesn't work out, the experience is so valuable to so many employers that your worst case scenario is, 'Ok,…

— Drew Houston

Number, place, and combination . . . the three intersecting but distinct spheres of thought to which all mathematical ideas admit of being referred.

— James Joseph Sylvester

Puppets are pure form then ideas for performance come out of that. It's always the form and the visuals and that's why…

— Wayne White