Devoted Quotes - Page 15

• All the information you could want is constantly streaming at you like a runaway truck - books, newspaper stories, Web sites, apps, how-to videos, this article you're reading, even entire magazines devoted to single subjects like charcuterie or wedding cakes or pickles.

  Mario Batali

  Wedding, Reading, Book

  "An Introduction and Rallying Cry" by Mario Batali, www.esquire.com. August 24, 2011.

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• There was a great complexity to my father. He was a devoted family man. But, in the same breath, he simply was not suited to an anchored life. He should have been somebody who had a backpack, an old map, a bit of change in his pocket and that was it - roaming the world.

  Christian Bale

  Father, Men, Should Have

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• You know, it's a big version of an episode, which I think is necessary at this point because we're drawing in people who not only people who have seen the show before and are devoted to it, but people who have never seen it before.

  Gillian Anderson

  Thinking, Drawing, People

  "HSX Dovlin's Domain". Interview with Rod Dovlin, www.gilliananderson.ws. August 29, 1997.

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• The motto for every missionary, whether preacher, printer, or schoolmaster, ought to be 'Devoted for Life.'

  Adoniram Judson

  Religion, Missionary, Christianity

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• Khalif (Caliph) Al-Ma'mun's period of rule (813 - 833 C.E.) may be considered the 'golden age' of science and learning. He had always been devoted to books and to learned pursuits. His brilliant mind was interested in every form of intellectual activity. Not only poetry but also philosophy, theology, astronomy, medicine and law all occupied his time.

  John Bagot Glubb

  Philosophy, Book, Islamic

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• To deny an entire group of people the ability to be legal couples is anti-American and anti-freedom. As a devoted husband and father of two, I can't imagine the state of Minnesota not recognizing my love for my wife Isabelle. We would welcome and respect the equal rights for gays to experience the same joy and privileges of marriage that we do.

  Chris Kluwe

  Couple, Husband, Father

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• I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.

  James Rebhorn

  Mother, Memories, Mean

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• The Islam that we know is a faith devoted to the worship of one God, as revealed through The Holy Qu'ran. It teaches the value and importance of charity, mercy, and peace.

  George W. Bush

  Inspiration, Islam, Charity

  George W. Bush's Message for Ramadan, georgewbush-whitehouse.archives.gov. November 15, 2001.

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• Devotion differs. Devotion exists for the total existence, without the counterpart, mm? There is nothing against devotion. There is hate against love; there is nothing against devotion. No-devotion is not against devotion, it is just absence. So when someone says, "I am devoted to Rama," really he is using a wrong word. If he loves Rama, then he cannot love Krishna. If someone says, "I am devoted to Krishna," then he cannot love Christ. He is using a wrong word. He is continuing the love phenomenon; it is not devotion.

  Rajneesh

  Hate, Rama, Christ

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• The conclusion forced upon me in the course of a life devoted to natural science is that the universe as it is assumed to be in physical science is only an idealized world, while the real universe is the spiritual universe in which spiritual values count for everything.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Spiritual, Real, Science

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• The shocking possibility that dumb people don't exist in sufficient numbers to warrant the millions of careers devoted to tending them will seem incredible to you. Yet that is my central proposition: the mass dumbness which justifies official schooling first had to be dreamed of; it isn't real.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Real, School, Government

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• Luck means the hardships and privations which you have not hesitated to endure, the long nights you have devoted to work. Luck means the appointments you have never failed to keep; the trains you have never failed to catch.

  Max O'Rell

  Work, Failure, Mean

  Max O'Rell (1902). “'Tween You An' I: Some Little Problems of Life”

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• Doctoral training is devoted almost entirely to learning to do research, even though most Ph.Ds who enter academic life spend far more time teaching than they do conducting experiments or writing books.

  Derek Bok

  Book, Teaching, Writing

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• I am a universalist, passionately devoted to the cause of equality within the human family.

  Theodore Bikel

  Equality, Causes, Humans

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• Throughout his life Newton must have devoted at least as much attention to chemistry and theology as to mathematics.

  W. W. Rouse Ball

  Science, Attention, Chemistry

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• After the birth of printing books became widespread. Hence everyone throughout Europe devoted himself to the study of literature... Every year, especially since 1563, the number of writings published in every field is greater than all those produced in the past thousand years. Through them there has today been created a new theology and a new jurisprudence; the Paracelsians have created medicine anew and the Copernicans have created astronomy anew. I really believe that at last the world is alive, indeed seething, and that the stimuli of these remarkable conjunctions did not act in vain.

  Johannes Kepler

  Believe, Book, Writing

  "The Birth of History and Philosophy of Science: Kepler's A Defence of Tycho Against Ursus With Essays on its Provenance and Significance". Book by N. Jardine, 1984.

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• "God", "immortality of the soul", "redemption", "beyond" - Without exception, concepts to which I have never devoted any attention, or time; not even as a child. Perhaps I have never been childlike enough for them?
  I do not by any means know atheism as a result; even less as an event: It is a matter of course with me, from instinct. I am too inquisitive, too questionable, too exuberant to stand for any gross answer. God is a gross answer, an indelicacy against us thinkers - at bottom merely a gross prohibition for us: you shall not think!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Children, Mean, Thinking

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2009). “Basic Writings of Nietzsche”, p.692, Modern Library

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• Once learnt, this business of cooking was to prove an ever growing burden. It scarcely bears thinking about, the time and labour that man and womankind has devoted to the preparation of dishes that are to melt and vanish in a moment like smoke or a dream, like a shadow, and as a post that hastes by, and the air closes behind them, afterwards no sign where they went is to be found.

  Rose Macaulay

  Dream, Men, Thinking

  Rose Macaulay (2011). “Personal Pleasures”, p.75, A&C Black

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• The day when the scientist, no matter how devoted, may make significant progress alone and without material help is past. This fact is most self-evident in our work. Instead of an attic with a few test tubes, bits of wire and odds and ends, the attack on the atomic nucleus has required the development and construction of great instruments on an engineering scale.

  Ernest Lawrence

  Science, Past, Odds

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• It is hard to hide our genes completely. However devoted someone may be to the privacy of his genotype, others with enough curiosity and knowledge can draw conclusions from the phenotype he presents and from the traits of his relatives.

  Philip Kitcher

  Knowledge, Science, Curiosity

  Philip Kitcher (1997). “The Lives to Come”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• Capital is that part of wealth which is devoted to obtaining further wealth.

  Alfred Marshall

  Philosophy, Political, Wealth

  Alfred Marshall, Mary Paley Marshall (1888). “The Economics of Industry”

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• I envy my Jewish friends the ritual of saying kaddish - a ritual that seems perfectly conceived, with its built-in support group and its ceremonious designation of time each day devoted to remembering the lost person.

  Meghan O'Rourke

  Envy, Support, Each Day

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• Well, I for one am unable to imagine how anybody who lives with an intelligent and devoted dog can every be lonely.

  Elizabeth von Arnim

  Dog, Lonely, Intelligent

  Elizabeth von Arnim (2014). “All The Dogs Of My Life: A Virago Modern Classic”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• If you spent one-tenth of the time you devoted to distractions like chasing women or making money to spiritual practice, you would be enlightened in a few years.

  Ramakrishna

  Spiritual, Years, Practice

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• Dreaming and hoping won't produce a piece of work; only writing, rewriting and rewriting (if necessary)- a devoted translation of thoughts and dreams into words on paper will result in a story.

  Roberta Gellis

  Dream, Writing, Stories

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