I need to worship because without it I can forget that I have a Big God beside me and live in fear.… — John Ortberg Copy Share Image
To discover the meaning of what is called "social justice" has been one of my chief preoccupations for more than 10 years.… — Friedrich August von Hayek Copy Share Image
It had always been a British preoccupation to hold this mile record. — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
My conception of the audience is of a public each member of which is carrying about with him what he thinks is… — Arthur Miller Copy Share Image
When I today ask myself whence I got the moral courage, for it takes moral courage to make a move (or form… — Aron Nimzowitsch Copy Share Image
The intellectual is not defined by professional group and type of occupation. Nor are good upbringing and a good family enough in… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
When I first decided to be a writer, that meant dealing with preoccupations and concerns that took little account of Indian traditions.… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
The preoccupation of the novelist: how to capture the living moments, was answered by the diary. You write while you are alive.… — Anais Nin Copy Share Image
I first came up with the idea for the colour-chart pictures back in 1966, and my preoccupation with the topic culminated in… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Sorrow for sin is indeed necessary, but it should not be an endless preoccupation. You must dwell also on the glad remembrance… — Saint Bernard Copy Share Image
To be identified with your mind is to be trapped in time: the compulsion to live almost exclusively through memory and anticipation.… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
“We preoccupy ourselves with what we had — or what we want to have — at the expense of what we have.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“In the city, strangers seldom meet beyond daily functions. Instead, they brush by with a haste and preoccupation that so defines a… — Joshua Krook Copy Share Image
You are wrong. The state and its existence are essential before everything else. All this preoccupation with liberty is not serious. — Habib Bourguiba Copy Share Image
It is only when we have renounced our preoccupation with "I," "me," "mine," that we can truly possess the world in which… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Your love for Jesus Christ and your discipleship in His cause must be the consuming preoccupation and passion of your mortality. — Jeffrey R. Holland Copy Share Image
Each [of my wives] was jealous and resentful of my preoccupation with business. Yet none showed any visible aversion to sharing in… — J. Paul Getty Copy Share Image
We are concerned with similar states of consciousness and relationship to the world.. ..If previous abstractions paralleled the scientific and objective preoccupations… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The genetic stage of a gene pool can be identified by the personality characteristics of the local God. Jehovah of Genesis is… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
All normal human beings are interested in their past. Only when the interest becomes an obsession, overshadowing present and future conduct, is… — C. V. Wedgwood Copy Share Image
I've discovered I've got this preoccupation with ordinary people pursued by large forces. — Steven Spielberg Copy Share Image
Setting up a community and seeing what happens to it when the megalomaniacs get busy: that's my main preoccupation. — Louis de Bernieres Copy Share Image
I'm not thinking much about overall themes or preoccupations or anything like that. Instead I'm just trusting that, if I'm working hard,… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
At the point when continuity was interrupted by the first nuclear explosion, it would have been too easy to recover the formal… — Salvatore Quasimodo Copy Share Image
Our most meaningful relationships are based on a longing for expansion rather than a preoccupation with comfort and security. To live exuberantly-to… — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image