Origin Quotes

672 quotes by 531 authors

Fluidity means that our black identities are constantly changing as we respond to circumstances in our families and communities of origin, and as we interact… — Bell Hooks
Comics deal with two fundamental communicating devices: words and images. Admittedly this is an arbitrary separation. But, since in the modern world of communication they… — Will Eisner
People think I'm crazy to put myself through such torture, though I would argue otherwise. Somewhere along the line we seem to have confused comfort… — Dean Karnazes
Twelve thousand years ago, everybody on earth was a hunter-gatherer; now almost all of us are farmers or else are fed by farmers. The spread… — Jared Diamond
The nativity mystery â€œconceived from the Holy Spirit and born from the Virgin Maryâ€, means, that God became human, truly human out of his own… — Karl Barth
So is man's heart. The desire to perform a work which will endure, which will survive him, is the origin of his superiority over all… — Jules Verne
A wonderful area for speculative academic work is the unknowable. These days religious subjects are in disfavor, but there are still plenty of good topics.… — Michael Crichton
There he got out the luncheon-basket and packed a simple meal, in which, remembering the stranger's origin and preferences, he took care to include a… — Kenneth Grahame
Why would anybody be intimidated by mere words? I mean, neither I nor any other athiest that I know ever threatens violence. We never threaten… — Richard Dawkins
You think of yourself as a citizen of the universe. You think you belong to this world of dust and matter. Out of this dust… — Rumi
Poetry is only the highest eloquence of passion, the most vivid form of expression that can be given to our conception of anything, whether pleasurable… — William Hazlitt
There's no real objection to escapism, in the right places... We all want to escape occasionally. But science fiction is often very far from escapism,… — Arthur C. Clarke
There needs not a great soul to make a hero; there needs a god-created soul which will be true to its origin; that will be… — Thomas Carlyle
Icy glares from vampires are far icier than icy glares from people and when the vampire giving you an icy glare is originally from Iceland,… — Kevin Hearne
But the culture has failed, almost entirely, in inculcating internal controls on actions that have their origin in authority. For this reason, the latter constitutes… — Stanley Milgram
... we are so full of apprehensions, fears, that we don't know exactly to what it points... a great change of our psychoglocal attitude is… — Carl Jung
Christians talk as though goodness was their idea but good behavior doesn't have any religious origin. Our prisons are filled with the devout. — Andy Rooney
In a perfect world, Joshuaâ€Ÿs vertically gifted murderer wouldâ€Ÿve had himself a monologue before rampaging, during which he loudly and clearly wouldâ€Ÿve announced his full… — Ilona Andrews
Every artist is linked to a mistake with which he has a particular intimacy. All art draws its origin from an exceptional fault, each work… — Maurice Blanchot
Our view of man will remain superficial so long as we fail to go back to that origin [of silence], so long as we fail… — Maurice Merleau-Ponty

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