I have observed that male writers tend to get asked what they think and women what they feel. In my experience, and… — Eleanor Catton Copy Share Image
When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave. — Alistair Begg Copy Share Image
The preoccupations of young women-their looks, their clothes, their social life-don't seem to change much from generation to generation. But in every… — Elisabeth Elliot Copy Share Image
Sometimes when everything has totally apart, the meaningless preoccupations that so often dominate our lives simply fall away. And what is left… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The American preoccupation with the law, which is certainly not past, was at its zenith in 1995. The 1980s, the late 1980s,… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
I can't be a spokesman for anything other than my own concerns. I have to be free to wrestle with my own… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I think there is a place where self-awareness becomes self-preoccupation if you don't take what you have discovered and bring it to… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
Every time man makes a new experiment he always learns more. He cannot learn less. He may learn that what he thought… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“When you are on your purpose, your preoccupation isn't what you don't have yet. You've already drunk too much of WHO YOU… — Assegid Habtewold Copy Share Image
We know when we are following our vocation when our soul is set free from preoccupation with itself and is able to… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I love work because it keeps sex in perspective. Otherwise, it can become a preoccupation. — Al Pacino Copy Share Image
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout. — Edmund Wilson Copy Share Image
Staying occupied displaces preoccupation and problems, and when we face our problems, they disappear. — Carlos Slim Copy Share Image
Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
She took kisses like so many coats of paint […] how long and how vainly I searched for excuses which might make… — Lawrence Durrell Copy Share Image
The point isn't to deny our Egos, but to extricate ourselves from our exclusive preoccupation with them. — Ram Dass Copy Share Image
Every serious novel is, beyond its immediate thematic preoccupations, a discussion of the craft, a conquest of the form, a conflict with… — Ralph Ellison Copy Share Image
Time can divorce us from the reality of people, it can separate us from people and turn them into ghosts. Or rather… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
My therapist says I have a preoccupation with vengeance. We'll see about that. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Nature is millions of things. And there are millions of ways of understanding its preoccupations. — Jean Renoir Copy Share Image
The vigor of a mass movement stems from the propensity of its followers for united action and self-sacrifice. When we ascribe the… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The materialist theory of history, that all politics and ethics are the expression of economics, is a very simple fallacy indeed. It… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling… — Alistair Cooke Copy Share Image
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