Underlying Quotes

305 quotes by 272 authors

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger… — Karen Armstrong
The universal order and the personal order are nothing but different expressions and manifestations of a common underlying principle. — Marcus Aurelius
What is a philosophy? It Is an answer satisfactory to the reason to all the great problems of life. That is what is meant by… — Annie Besant
There's a general sense that women are more relaxed and less defensive in comedy than they used to be. I think it's easier than it… — Jo Brand
Terrorism needs to be fought against and certainly delegitimized or attacked, but some of the underlying grievances that might in fact lead individuals astray to… — John O. Brennan
The degree of leverage now being reversed is staggering, and the underlying global imbalances - notably between the savers and the spenders - will require… — Vince Cable
Just as the Atman (Soul) is the reality underlying the conscious powers of an individual, so the Supreme Soul (God) is the eternal quiet underneath… — Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan
Our modern Western culture only recognises the first of these, freedom of desires. It then worships such a freedom by enshrining it at the forefront… — Ajahn Brahm
The underlying attraction of the movement of water and sand is biological. If we look more deeply we can see it as the basis of… — Geoffrey Jellicoe
Sport in the sense of a mass-spectacle, with death to add to the underlying excitement, comes into existence when a population has been drilled and… — Lewis Mumford
The underlying sickness of human life is an unwillingness to look with open eyes at the condition of the world. — Hu Shih
Public opinion, though often formed upon a wrong basis, yet generally has a strong underlying sense of justice. — Abraham Lincoln
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When asked ... [about] an underlying quantum world, Bohr would answer, 'There is no quantum world. There is only an abstract quantum physical description. It… — Niels Bohr
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three… — Murray Gell-Mann
The underlying sense of form in my work has been the system of the Universe, or part thereof. For that is a rather large model… — Alexander Calder
Give up all forms of parrotry. Start practicing whatever you truly feel to be true and justly to be just. Do not make a show… — Meher Baba
One of the great underlying principles governing our life is service. Most of us have to work, but do we serve? Do we work in… — Henry Thomas Hamblin
Baseball is part of America's plot, part of America's mysterious, underlying design-the plot in which we all conspire and collude, the plot of the story… — Albert Allen Bartlett
Coaching is about finding a system that works for your players. There are some underlying principles which are applied in any coaching situation but it's… — Hugh McCutcheon

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