Activities Quotes
888 quotes by 732 authors
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...I want first of all - in fact, as an end to these other desires - to be at peace with myself. I want a…
— Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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Few activities are as delightful as learning new vocabulary.
— Tim Gunn
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Chaplin and Keaton are still the best. They know that there is nothing more serious than laughter, an art demanding infinite work, and that as…
— Eduardo Galeano
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We human beings are social beings. We come into the world as the result of others’ actions. We survive here in dependence on others. Whether…
— Dalai Lama
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So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon…
— George Orwell
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At the foot of the mountain, the park ended and suddenly all was squalor again. I was once more struck by this strange compartmentalization that…
— Bill Bryson
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I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system…
— Woodrow Wilson
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I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets…
— John Steinbeck
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She has that quality, does the Hudson, as I imagine all great rivers do: the deep, abiding sense that those activities what take place on…
— Caleb Carr
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Quote from CARE OF THE SOUL...Thomas Moore ...to the soul, the most minute details and the most ordinary activities, carried out with mindfullness and art,…
— Thomas Moore
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I have gone around observing your activities from the outside. Because of this I have also been able to see things to which you have…
— Jostein Gaarder
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I thought about how odd it is for billions of people to be alive, yet not one of them is really quite sure of what…
— Douglas Coupland
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Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside…
— Per Petterson
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Happiness is not achieved by the conscious pursuit of happiness; it is generally the by-product of other activities.
— Aldous Huxley
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Odd that the brain could function on its own, without acquainting him with its purposes, its reasons. But the brain was an organ, like the…
— Philip K. Dick
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Labour-saving devices just make us try to cram more pointless activities into each day, rather than doing the important thing, which is to enjoy our…
— Tom Hodgkinson
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You're cultural supremacists to the core. You'll perform your Questionable Activities to help out the poor little piggies, but there isn't a chance in the…
— Orson Scott Card
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If you understand real practice, then archery or other activities can be zen. If you don't understand how to practice archery in its true sense,…
— Shunryu Suzuki
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You know what this is?" Lula said. "This here's plane rage." Plane rage isn't allowed. It got taken off the allowed activities list along with…
— Janet Evanovich
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The critical question for our generation—and for every generation— is this: If you could have heaven, with no sickness, and with all the friends you…
— John Piper
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