Atmosphere Quotes - Page 28

• Religion is a temper, not a pursuit. It is the moral atmosphere in which human beings are to live and move. Men do not live to breathe: they breathe to live.

  Harriet Martineau

  Moving, Men, Moral

  Harriet Martineau (1837). “Society in America”, p.158

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• Visitors should conform as much as possible to the habits and customs of the house. They should be moderate in their demands for personal attendance. They should not carry their moods into the drawing-room or to the table, and, whether they are bored or not, should be ready to contribute as much as in their power to an atmosphere of pleasure. If the above involves too much self-sacrifice, then an invitation to visit should by no means be accepted.

  Elisabeth Marbury

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

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• The finest flowers of genius have grown in an atmosphere where those of Nature are prone to droop, and difficult to bring to maturity.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Flower, Maturity, Genius

  Thomas Guthrie (1857). “The city, its sins and sorrows, sermons”, p.9

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• The people who are unprejudiced, but who ... feel it is so hopeless there is no use trying ... probably do just as much damage to the emotional atmosphere in which we are facing the problem as the fanatical Negrophobes.

  Margaret Halsey

  Emotional, People, Trying

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• Words are to be taken seriously. I try to take seriously acts of language. Words set things in motion. I've seen them doing it. Words set up atmospheres, electrical fields, charges.

  Toni Cade Bambara

  Taken, Language Words, Trying

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• Racism is so extreme and so pervasive in our American society that no black individual lives in an atmosphere of freedom.

  Margaret Walker

  Racism, Black, Individual

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• When a vision begins to form everything changes, including the air around me. I seem no longer to be in the same atmosphere. I feel a peacefulness and a love that are indescribable. I stand alone, and nothing worldly can touch me. I feel that I am looking down from a higher plane and wondering why others cannot see what I am seeing.

  Jeane Dixon

  Air, Vision, Things Change

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• ...man can no more survive psychologically in a psychological milieu that does not respond empathetically to him, than he can survive physically in an atmosphere that contains no oxygen.

  Heinz Kohut

  Sympathy, Men, Compassion

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• There is one distinctive charm about fishing - its fascinations will stand any climate. You may sit crouching on ice over a hole inside the arctic circle, or on a Windsor chair by the side of the River Lea in the so-called temperate zone, or you may squat in a canoe on an equatorial river, with the surrounding atmosphere forty-five percent mosquito, and if you are fishing you will enjoy yourself.

  Mary Kingsley

  Ice, Fishing, Circles

  Mary Kingsley (2013). “West African Studies”, p.75, Routledge

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• Ireland is a wonderful place to write in. Even although the atmosphere was so Faith-laden that I was often worried that I was not writing a book to the glory of God, I had to admit that words flowed from my pen like all-get-out. To be honest, there is nothing to do in Ireland but write.

  Nancy Spain

  Book, Writing, Honest

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• A people who have only just begun to emerge from a state of subjugation are in no position to be even-handed ... and it takes much patience and understanding and good will on the part of the strong ones both in the subjugated group and in the group holding the power to provide an atmosphere of stability in which the frightened bravado on both sides of the fence can dissipate itself without increasing the chaos that is already intrinsic in the situation.

  Vivian Gornick

  Strong, People, Understanding

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• I know: If you're looking down at Earth, you're looking through an atmosphere that has a bit of haze in many places and not just occasional clouds.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Clouds, Earth, Haze

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• Mars has a bit of air pressure; maybe we can build up that atmosphere to be a bit more accommodating to humans.

  Buzz Aldrin

  Air, Mars, Pressure

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• The planet needs trees. If there is indeed that carbon dioxide out there in the atmosphere, the only species on the planet that can actually trap it for us in a natural process of photosynthesis are the trees.

  Wangari Maathai

  Tree, Needs, Natural

  Source: www.sbs.com.au

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• I feel at home in intimate concert halls. I can take risks and I'm immediately forgiven if the risk is a failure because it's such a cozy atmosphere. It opens up the opportunity for conversation and for interacting with the crowd.

  Jason Mraz

  Home, Opportunity, Risk

  Source: www.student-weekly.com

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• You get the right collection of people together and you get the atmosphere together that it is very free where there is no judgment. If you create an atmosphere that is very open you steer the ship.

  Stephen Chbosky

  People, Together, Ships

  "Interview with Writer and Director Stephen Chbosky “The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Interview with Sarah Knight Adamson, www.sarahsbackstagepass.com. August 27, 2012.

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• Practically every profession has a really political environment. I think the world has become more competitive. There are so many people in every place competing for small slices of success and power. It's a heated atmosphere and whenever you have competition, you're going to have more politics and manipulation.

  Robert Greene

  Thinking, People, Political

  "Interviewing Robert Greene about Mastery, Hustle, Fear, Boxing and MMA". Interview with Ben Thapa, www.bloodyelbow.com. November 12, 2012.

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• Not to make him blush, but any story illustrated by Mike Mignola does things that prose alone cant accomplish. The illustrations create mood and atmosphere, drawing the reader more deeply into the story than words could do on their own.

  Christopher Golden

  Illustration, Drawing, Doe

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• Five states - Ohio, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Illinois and North Carolina - have been identified by the EPA as contributing significantly to Rhode Island pollution. As of 2010, 284 tall smokestacks - stacks over 500 feet - were operating in the United States: needles injecting poison into the atmosphere.

  Sheldon Whitehouse

  Illinois, Rhode Island, Islands

  "Good News in the Fight Against Bad Air" by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 13, 2012.

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• It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.

  Michel Gondry

  Jobs, Reality, Emotional

  "Michel Gondry on Mood Indigo, special effects, Jim Carrey, and Charlie Kaufman". Interview with A.A. Dowd, www.avclub.com. July 23, 2014.

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• I want to create the airplane that flies in the rarified atmosphere of Mars. This is what galvanizes a generation to want to become scientists and engineers in the first place, not we need a scientist to develop a plane that's 20 percent more fuel-efficient than the one your parents flew.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Airplane, Parent, Mars

  "Neil DeGrasse Tyson Explains Why The Cosmos Shouldn't Make You Feel Small". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. February 27, 2014.

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• The most serious problem facing humankind is climate change. All of these people breathing and burning our atmosphere has led to an extraordinarily dangerous situation. I hope next generation will emerge and produce technology, regulations, and a worldview that enable as many of us as possible to live happy healthy lives.

  Bill Nye

  Technology, Dangerous Situations, Breathing

  Source: biologos.org

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• If you work through the existing structures you are going to be corrupted. By working through political system that poisons the atmosphere, even the progressive organizations, you can see it even nowadays in the US, where people on the "Left" are all caught in the electoral campaign and get into fierce arguments about should we support this third party candidate or that third party candidate. This is a sort of little piece of evidence that suggests that when you get into working through electoral politics you begin to corrupt your ideals.

  Howard Zinn

  Party, Organization, People

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• Transcendentalism is, we might say, an early form of anarchism. The Transcendentalists also did not call themselves anarchists, but there are anarchist ideas in their thinking and in their literature. They were all suspicious of authority. We might say that the Transcendentalism played a role in creating an atmosphere of skepticism towards authority, towards government.

  Howard Zinn

  Thinking, Government, Ideas

  "Rebels Against Tyranny". Interview with Ziga Vodovnik, www.counterpunch.org. May 12, 2008.

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• I have my own way to walk and for some reason or other Zen is right in the middle of it wherever I go. So there it is, with all its beautiful purposelessness, and it has become very familiar to me though I do not know "what it is." Or even if it is an "it." Not to be foolish and multiply words, I'll say simply that it seems to me that Zen is the very atmosphere of the Gospels, and the Gospels are bursting with it. It is the proper climate for any monk, no matter what kind of monk he may be. If I could not breathe Zen I would probably die of spiritual asphyxiation.

  Thomas Merton

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Climate

  Thomas Merton (1988). “Encounter: Thomas Merton & D.T. Suzuki”

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