In a way, fasting is like the "calming of the monkey mind" effected by the rosary prayer: both are means of stilling… — Robert Barron Copy Share Image
I am profoundly fascinated by cruelty, fear, horror and death. My films show my preoccupation with violence, the pathology of violence. — Fritz Lang Copy Share Image
In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Europe has to address people's needs directly and reflect their priorities, not our own preoccupations. — Peter Mandelson Copy Share Image
Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
When a white man in Africa by accident looks into the eyes of a native and sees the human being (which it… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
I think there's a preoccupation with the American market to make excuses and justify its past. If it isn't current, it means… — Leon Redbone Copy Share Image
The Zionists'...main preoccupation is not to save Jews alive out of Europe but to get Jews into Palestine. — Richard Crossman Copy Share Image
It was less a literary thing than a linguistic, philosophical preoccupation... discovering how far you can go with language to create immediate,… — Robert Morgan Copy Share Image
I have always taken the view that sometimes war may be justified, as police action can be justified, to protect the weak… — N. T. Wright Copy Share Image
Thus you are led from moment to moment in your halter of preoccupation with self, and kindled instantly to displeasure, impatience or… — Tito Colliander Copy Share Image
I know well the delectable thrill of moving into a new house somewhere altogether else, in somebody else’s county, where the climate… — Jan Morris Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, that's been a preoccupation of mine: Can you really just close the door and leave the past back… — Dani Shapiro Copy Share Image
I am also greatly indebted to Bergson, William James, and John Dewey. One of my preoccupations has been to rescue their type… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Genealogy: A perverse preoccupation of those who seek to demonstrate that their forebears were better people than they are. — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
The premonition of death may for many be a stimulus to novelty of experience: the imminence of death serves to sweep away… — David Riesman Copy Share Image
'The Luminaries' is such a different book to 'The Rehearsal.' There are only a couple of things that link the two books:… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
How tragic it is that so often we stop everything just as we reach the starting line. We must move past the… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
When the soul is understood and attended to, we can be liberated from hurry, preoccupation, unsatisfied desires, and chronic discontent. — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
All of us in Quebec - and I mean all of us - have allowed language to become a preoccupation that works… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Postmodernism is, almost by definition, a transitional cusp of social, cultural, economic and ideological history when modernism's high-minded principles and preoccupationshave ceased… — Gilbert Adair Copy Share Image
In a way, her strangeness, her naiveté, her craving for the other half of her equation was the consequence of an idle… — Toni Morrison Copy Share Image
...The entire preoccupation of the physicist is with things that contain within themselves a principle of movement and rest. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
The preoccupation with what should be is estimable only when the respect for what is has been exhausted. — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
My call for a spiritual revolution is not a call for a religious revolution. Nor is it a reference to a way… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
