Quotes of: Life-forms Keyword

I know imitation is the highest form of flattery, but stealing one's identity is totally different.

AnnaLynne McCord

Priesthood is not a convenient, historically conditioned form of Church organisation, but is rooted in the Incarnation, in the priesthood and mission of Christ himself.

Arthur Middleton

Puns are just another form of sarcasm, which may or may not make you - smile, giggle, or laugh.

Aniruddha Sastikar

Taking an interest in what others are thinking and doing is often a much more powerful form of encouragement than praise.

Robert Martin

One out of every 12 jobs in the economy is connected in some way, shape or form to what happens on the farm.

Tom Vilsack

If you don't get any motivation from your team, there is nothing wrong with those you lead but your form of leadership.

Unarine Ramaru

The highest form of ignorance is when you reject something you don't know anything about.

Wayne Dyer

New legislation has just been adopted by the International Labour Organization on the Worst Forms of Child Labor, such as bonded labour, prostitution and hazardous work.

Carol Bellamy

My own work in spin glass and its consequences has formed some of the intellectual basis for these interests.

Philip Warren Anderson

Lesbians are likely to be drawn to stand-up, if only because it's cheaper to produce and therefore more accessible for women. But the very form of stand-up is masculine.

Kate Clinton

War is a form of really bad manners, in a strange way. Invading a country I think is just the worst possible manners. 'You're not invited!' Gate crashing on a large scale!

Graydon Carter

The 'life' in 'pro-life' denotes not the quality of life, but life itself.

John Shimkus

Forests to the [early] Northern European peoples were dangerous and generous, domestic and wild, beautiful and terrible. And the forests were the terrain out of which fairy stories, one of our earliest and most vital cultural forms, evolved. The myst...

Gossip from the Forest

...in pure mathematics the mind deal only with its own creations and imaginations. The concepts of number and form have not been derived from any source other than the world of reality. The ten fingers on which men learned to count, that is, to carry...

Anti-Duhring: Herr Eugen Duhring's Revolution in Science

The girl and Doctor Reefy began their courtship on a summer afternoon. He was forty-five then and already he had begun the practice of filling his pockets with the scraps of paper that became hard balls and were thrown away. The habit had been formed...

Short Shorts

First, however, I must deal with the matter of Jesus, the so-called savior, who not long ago taught new doctrines and was thought to be a son of God. This savior, I shall attempt to show, deceived many and caused them to accept a form of belief harmf...

On the True Doctrine: A Discourse Against the Christians

Although forms appear to the mind, the (objective) appearances are not mind.... When the reflection of your face appears in a mirror, it appears as the face looks, because the clear surface of the mirror is capable of making the reflection appear and...

The Practice of Dzogchen

Absolute trust in the reality of things begins to be shaken as the problem of truth enters upon the scene. The moment man ceases merely to live in and with reality and demands a knowledge of this reality, he moves into a new and fundamentally differe...

The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms 3: The Phenomenology of Knowledge

Those who are esteemed umpires of taste, are often persons who have acquired some knowledge of admired pictures or sculptures, and have an inclination for whatever is elegant; but if you inquire whether they are beautiful souls, and whether their own...

The Poet

Technology, like art, is a soaring exercise of the human imagination. Art is the aesthetic ordering of experience to express meanings in symbolic terms, and the reordering of nature--the qualities of space and time--in new perceptual and material for...

The Winding Passage: Essays and Sociological Journeys, 1960-1980

By using repetition, images, and other strategies - all of which communicate truths in ways that are not cognitively or propositional - marketing forms us into the kind of persons who want to buy beer to have meaningful relationships, or to buy a car...

Who's Afraid of Postmodernism?: Taking Derrida, Lyotard, and Foucault to Church