I'm simply saying that our deepest thoughts, desires and preoccupations manifest themselves in art, whether we intend them to or not. That's… — Simon Pegg Copy Share Image
One response was given by the innkeeper when Mary and Joseph wanted to find a room where the Child could be born.… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
Go to the pine if you want to learn about the pine, or to the bamboo if you want to learn about… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad. — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
Notions of chance and fate are the preoccupations of men engaged in rash undertakings. — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
There's a preoccupation with memory and the operation of memory and a rather rapacious interest in history. — Penelope Lively Copy Share Image
This constant, unproductive preoccupation with all the things we have to do is the single largest consumer of time and energy. — Kerry Gleeson Copy Share Image
A priest is a man vowed, trained, and consecrated, a man belonging to a special corps, and necessarily with an intense esprit… — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
To wait for hours to buy a train ticket or to see a doctor is accepted as a normal way of doing… — Nancy Travis Copy Share Image
I have a very simple mantra and it's this: I want to make black cinema with the power, beauty, and alienation of… — Arthur Jafa Copy Share Image
When we let go of yearning for the future, preoccupation with the past, and strategies to protect the present, there is nowhere… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
Citizens of liberal welfare states become increasingly narcissistic. The great preoccupations of vast numbers of Brits, Frenchmen, Germans and other Western Europeans… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Politics deserves much praise. Politics is a preoccupation of free men, and its existence is a test of freedom. The praise of… — Bernard Crick Copy Share Image
My preoccupation has been from the very beginning that I believe that the "Brexit" referendum result is the most disastrous peacetime result… — Michael Heseltine Copy Share Image
The church has been brought into the same value system as the world: fame, success, materialism and celebrity. We watch the leading… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Gratitude is the ability to experience life as a gift. It liberates us from the prison of self-preoccupation. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
Go to the object. Leave your subjective preoccupation with yourself. Do not impose yourself on the object. Become one with the object.… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
Growing up in the U.S., I was certainly deeply aware of the power of American media, specifically Hollywood and television, in terms… — Nguyen Viet Thang Copy Share Image
It is a terrible error to let any natural impulse, physical or mental, stagnate. Crush it out, if you will, and be… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
My major preoccupation is the question, 'What is reality ?' Many of my stories and novels deal with psychotic states or drug-induced… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The situation of the factory worker today is reminiscent in certain respects of that of the nineteenth-century capitalist whose wife dragged him… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
Without making any moral judgements whatsoever, one can say that self-indulgence and excessive self-preoccupation are the antithesis of genuine awareness. — Ronald Rolheiser Copy Share Image
In Liberia, the big challenge that remains for us is job creation. We want young people to work or go to school.… — Ellen Johnson Sirleaf Copy Share Image
