A too constant preoccupation with money may seem to indicate the lack of a proper sense of moral values, but [let] those… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
Underneath runs the main current of preoccupation, which is keeping one's nose clean at all times. This means that when things go… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
In truth, philosophy is the mode of thought shaped by the most radical form of prejudice: the passion of being-in-the-world. With the… — Peter Sloterdijk Copy Share Image
A preoccupation with the next world clearly shows an inability to cope credibly with this one. — Richard K. Morgan Copy Share Image
A detective novel should contain no long descriptive passages, no literary dallying with side-issues, no subtly worked-out character analyses, no 'atmospheric' preoccupations.… — S. S. Van Dine Copy Share Image
I know nothing more enjoyable than that happy-go-lucky wandering life, in which you are perfectly free; without shackles of any kind, without… — Guy de Maupassant Copy Share Image
Terrorism is a principal preoccupation in most of our international contacts. — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global… — Zbigniew Brzezinski Copy Share Image
I used to fall hard when I was younger, and it occupies a lot of journals and redundant preoccupation and analysis. It… — Todd Haynes Copy Share Image
I found growing up that love and sexuality was a wonderful way to understand existence. When we love it takes us beyond… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If I had influence with the good fairy who is supposed to preside over the christening of all children I should ask… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
What is the thread of western civilization that distinguished its course in history? It has to do with the preoccupation of western… — Arthur Erickson Copy Share Image
When an artist begins to count strokes instead of regarding nature he is lost. This preoccupation with technique, at the expense of… — Joaquin Sorolla Copy Share Image
The false self lives mainly through memory and anticipation. Past and future are its main preoccupation. — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
A preoccupation with achievement is not only different from, but often detrimental to, a focus on learning. Thoughts and emotions while performing… — Alfie Kohn Copy Share Image
Our task is to strike a balance, to find a middle way, to learn not to overextend ourselves with extraneous activities and… — Sogyal Rinpoche Copy Share Image
“The reader brings to the work personality traits, memories of past events, present needs and preoccupations, a particular mood of the moment… — Louise Rosenblatt Copy Share Image
It is the individual only who is timeless. Societies, cultures, and civilizations -- past and present -- are often incomprehensible to outsiders,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The conquest of war and the pursuit of social justice... must become our grand preoccupation and magnificent obsession. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
Apple was very close to bankruptcy and to irrelevance [but] you learn a lot about life through death, and I learnt a… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
The holiday season promotes a heightened sense of community. It draws our chins up and helps us look above and over the… — Mary Anne Radmacher Copy Share Image
If you begin with the assumption of freedom, the preoccupation is always how to keep freedom in check, how to bind; But… — Gerhard Copy Share Image
Thus worshiping, serving, studying, praying, each in its own way squeezes selfishness out of us; pushes aside our preoccupations with the things… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Instead of building the peace by attacking injustices like starvation, disease, illiteracy, political and economic servitude, we spend a trillion dollars on… — Daniel Berrigan Copy Share Image
The illusion that consumption - and its correlative, income - is desirable probably stems from too great preoccupation with what Knight calls… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image