Creation Quotes - Page 31

• The Yankee is one who, if he once gets his teeth set on a thing, all creation can't make him let go.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Letting Go, Yankees, Teeth

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson (Illustrated)”, p.4019, Delphi Classics

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• Nature is a rag merchant, who works up every shred and ort and end into new creations.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Rags, Ends, Merchants

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Walt McLaughlin (2010). “The Laws of Nature: Excerpts from the Writings of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.73, North Atlantic Books

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• We must not subject him who creates to the desires of the multitude. It is, rather, his creation that must become the multitude's desire.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Desire, Multitudes, Subjects

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• Every person who gets rich by creation opens a way for thousands to follow-and inspires them to do so.

  Wallace D. Wattles

  Inspire, Way, Rich

  Elizabeth N. Doyd, Wallace D. Wattles (2014). “The Science of Getting Rich Action Plan: Decoding Wallace D. Wattles's Bestselling Book”, p.47, Higher Self Publishing

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• David Corbett's The Art of Character offers a deep inquiry into the creation of character for the novice writer, with valuable nuggets of wisdom for the seasoned storyteller. If you are a writer, it should be on your desk.

  Jacqueline Winspear

  Art, Character, Inquiry

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• To crush out fanaticism and revere the infinite, such is the law. Let us not confine ourselves to falling prostrate beneath the tree of creation and contemplating its vast ramifications full of stars. We have a duty to perform, to cultivate the human soul, to defend mystery against miracle, to adore the incomprehensible and to reject the absurd; to admit nothing that is inexplicable excepting what is necessary, to purify faith and obliterate superstition from the face of religion, to remove the vermin from the garden of God.

  Victor Hugo

  Crush, Stars, Fall

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• The flowers that sleep by night, opened their gentle eyes and turned them to the day. The light, creation's mind, was everywhere, and all things owned its power.

  Charles Dickens

  Nature, Flower, Sleep

  Charles Dickens (1868). “The Old Curiosity Shop: And Reprinted Pieces”, p.70

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• It is natural to man to regard himself as the final cause of creation.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Men, Finals, Causes

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Johann Peter Eckermann, Frédéric Jacob Soret (1850). “Conversations of Goethe with Eckermann and Soret”, p.347

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• The makers of fortunes have a second love of money as a creation of their own, resembling the affection of authors for their own poems, or of parents for their children, besides that natural love of it for the sake of use and profit.

  Plato

  Children, Parent, Use

  Plato (2016). “The Republic”, p.235, Aegitas

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• It is evident that the state is a creation of nature, and that man is by nature a political animal.

  Aristotle

  Animal, Men, Political

  Politics bk. 1, 1253a

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• Some collaboration has to take place in the mind between the woman and the man before the art of creation can be accomplished. Some marriage of opposites has to be consummated. The whole of the mind must lie wide open if we are to get the sense that the

  Virginia Woolf

  Art, Lying, Creativity

  Virginia Woolf (2007). “Selected Works of Virginia Woolf”, p.627, Wordsworth Editions

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• But time is yet another of God's creations, and as such, it has a life of its own.

  Menachem Mendel Schneerson

  God's Creation

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• I helped deliver one of my best friend's children. I just was so amazed by my friend, because she was not just a woman, she was not just a mother. At that moment she was creation; she was life; she was God. And as I looked in her eyes, BOOM! Her pussy exploded.

  Margaret Cho

  Mother, Children, Eye

  "Margaret Cho: CHO Revolution". Video, June 12, 2004.

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• We may say that hysteria is a caricature of an artistic creation, a compulsion neurosis a caricature of a religion, and a paranoiac delusion a caricature of a philosophic system.

  Sigmund Freud

  Hysteria, Artistic Creation, May

  Sigmund Freud (2009). “Totem and Taboo”, p.96, Cosimo, Inc.

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• Eternal love made me.

  Dante Alighieri

  Eternal Love, Made, Eternal

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• God has lent us the earth for our life; it is a great entail. It belongs as much to those who are to come after us, and whose names are already written in the book of creation, as to us; and we have no right, by anything that we do or neglect, to involve them in unnecessary penalties, or deprive them of benefits which it was in our power to bequeath.

  John Ruskin

  Book, Names, Benefits

  John Ruskin (1907). “The Religion of Ruskin: The Life and Works of John Ruskin; a Biographical and Anthological Study”

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• Nothing can match the wonderment that comes from staring up into the star-filled canopy above and realizing that you are a part of that creation.

  Tim Ferriss

  Stars, Realizing, Canopy

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• God’s voice speaking tenderly to our hearts today is the same voice that powerfully called creation into being.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Heart, Voice, Today

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• If Creation were a crime, would not God be the prime suspect?

  Robert Breault

  God, Crime, Prime

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• God left so many fingerprints at the scene of Creation that you wonder — does He want to be found, or does He want to be stopped?

  Robert Breault

  God, Doe, Want

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• [T]he Super Bowl, the quintessential American creation. A dizzying mélange of brilliant entrepreneurship in an atmosphere of intense competition. It is the perfect show for the most intensely competitive culture in this solar system.

  Robert Klein

  Perfect, Competition, Atmosphere

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• The purpose of Jesus's coming is to put the whole world right, to renew and restore the creation, not to escape it.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Purpose, World

  Timothy Keller (2008). “The Reason for God: Belief in an Age of Skepticism”, p.217, Penguin

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• I am the all-singing, all-dancing crap of this world.... I am the toxic waste by-product of God's creation.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Toxic Waste, Dancing, Singing

  Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Fight Club”, p.169, Random House

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• The chasm between the beauty and seriousness of the work, and what it has become, has overwhelmed me. The commercialization has reduced the aesthetic and philosophical impact of the creation to nothing. There is only one solution for me: to turn my head away.

  Christopher Tolkien

  Philosophical, Impact, Overwhelmed

  "Why JRR Tolkien's Son Hates What Peter Jackson Has Done" by Devin Faraci, Birth.Movies.Death, birthmoviesdeath.com. January 9, 2013.

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• Work is taking the raw material of creation and developing it for the sake of others.

  Timothy Keller

  Raw Materials, Sake, Developing

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