Living Things Quotes - Page 8

• A film is a living thing. The screenplay is a guideline. You really need to have a good, sound script to know that you have a dramatic structure that's going to work thematically, and to know how one scene will got through another, and to get a sense of character.

  Jose Padilha

  Character, Scripts, Sound

  Source: collider.com

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• We won the lottery in life and life is such a beautiful, precious gift, and we have to savor it, because as far as we know, we are the only living things in the universe, so it is our duty to protect it.

  Francesca Martinez

  Beautiful, Life Is, Precious Gifts

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• Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you.

  Marianne Williamson

  Love Is, Flow, Bliss

  FaceBook post by Marianne Williamson from Aug 14, 2012

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• To enter by reason means to realize the essence through instruction and to believe that all living things share the same true nature, which isn't apparent because it's shrouded by sensation and delusion.

  Bodhidharma

  Believe, Mean, Essence

  Bodhidharma (2009). “The Zen Teaching of Bodhidharma”, p.3, Macmillan

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• To appeal to God is to appeal to the action of universal love. Love never fails to come when we call to it, but it will always seem to fail us when our bidding is self-centered. The most powerful prayers are simply for God's will to be done, because God's will is healing for all living things.

  Marianne Williamson

  Prayer, Powerful, Healing

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.100, Random House

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• It's one thing to make a beautiful thing; it's another thing to make a living thing.

  John Paul Caponigro

  Beautiful, Photographer, One Thing

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• We need to return and go forward to the understanding that there is God in all living things, not more in men than women, and not more in humans than in nature. To believe otherwise is only an excuse for dominating women and nature.

  Gloria Steinem

  Believe, Men, Understanding

  Source: edition.cnn.com

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• The meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future. The claim that we would not have morals or ethics without religion is extraordinary. Animals in nature seem to behave in moral ways without organized religion.

  Bill Nye

  Animal, Meaning Of Life, Way

  Interview with Brad Kramer, biologos.org. February 4, 2015.

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• During the 20th century, we came to understand that the essence of all substances - their colour, texture, hardness and so forth - is set by their structure, on scales far smaller even than a microscope can see. Everything on Earth is made of atoms, which are, especially in living things, combined together in intricate molecular assemblages.

  Martin Rees

  Essence, Together, Atoms

  "We're the 'waste' from distant stars" by Martin Rees, www.theguardian.com. May 1, 2008.

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• How can there be methods and systems to arrive at something that is living? To that which is static, fixed, dead, there can be a way, a definite path, but not to that which is living. Do not reduce reality to a static thing and then invent methods to reach it. ...Truth has no path. Truth is living and, therefore, changing. It has no resting place, no form, no organized institution, no philosophy. When you see that, you will understand that this living thing is also what you are. You cannot express and be alive through static, put-together form, through stylized movement.

  Bruce Lee

  Philosophy, Reality, Together

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• Only living things bring living joy to the soul and must elevate it.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Joy, Soul, Force

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• An appreciation of animals is good for a human, it can lead to a better understanding and respect for all living things.

  Henry Rollins

  Appreciation, Animal, Understanding

  Source: eluxemagazine.com

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• We are part of a great whole. All living things are our brothers and sisters.

  Kenneth Clark

  Brother, Brothers And Sisters, Whole

  Kenneth Clark (2015). “Civilisation”, p.220, Hachette UK

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• Obviously technologies that are sustainable are a logical first step to creating a just society, one that doesn't trample life in all its forms, whether it's other humans or other life forms on the earth, one that acknowledges that we're all sharing the space and that there needs to be room for every living thing somewhere.

  John Lindsay

  Technology, Creating, Space

  Source: williamlittlesociology.wordpress.com

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• When you have the catalog of work, it doesn't feel like you've got one shot to get it right; it's just like, you're making a new document of something at the present time, and it's a living thing, and it changes. It's been cool to help other people make their records, to produce. You get a crash course in things that you don't get as the artist.

  Blake Mills

  Artist, Helping Others, People

  "Contact: Guitar Wunderkind Blake Mills". Interview with Jacob Blickensraff, www.motherjones.com. February 24, 2015.

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• The dog wags its tail only at living things.
  A tail wag, the equivalent of a human smile,
  is bestowed upon people, dogs , cats, squirrels,
  even mice and butterflies. - but no lifeless
  things. A dog won't wag its tail to its dinner
  or to a bed, card, stick, or even a bone.

  Jean Craighead George

  Dog, Butterfly, Cat

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• All flowers talk to me and so do hundreds of little living things in the woods. I learn what I know by watching and loving everything.

  George Washington Carver

  Flower, Littles, Woods

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• There is first the problem of acquiring content, which is learning. There is another problem of acquiring learning skills, which is not merely learning, but learning to learn, not velocity, but acceleration. Learning to learn is one of the great inventions of living things. It is tremendously important. It makes evolution, biological as well as social, go faster. And it involves the development of the individual.

  Ralph W. Gerard

  Skills, Important, Velocity

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• Peace and the survival of life on earth as we know it are threatened by human activities which lack a commitment to humanitarian values. Destruction of nature and nature's resources result from ignorance, greed and lack of respect for the earth's living things.

  Dalai Lama

  Ignorance, Commitment, Greed

  Dalai Lama XIV (1995). “My Tibet”, p.80, Univ of California Press

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• The Sacred isn't housed in a building or worn around your neck or something in the sky. The Sacred is the here and now we reside in, all breathing the same air, all imbibing the same water and made of the same earth with 'the life force' flowing through all living things.

  Jaune Quick–to–See Smith

  Air, Sky, Breathing

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• The things I do, I do from the heart and out of love and respect for our planet and all living things. And I draw my courage from my love for justice and truth, and I calm my fears by comforting those who are more scared than me. And I try to do my best to make the world a better place, one small action at a time, as good as I can.

  Q'orianka Kilcher

  Heart, Justice, Comforting

  "LatinoBuzz: Interview with Q’orianka Kilcher". Interview with Juan Caceres, www.indiewire.com. February 6, 2013.

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• What we call creation science makes no reference to the Bible. It says there are two possible explanations for the origin of the universe and living things: theistic, supernatural creation by an intelligent being, or nontheistic, mechanistic evolutionary theory that posits no goal and no purpose in the evolutionary process. We just happen to be here.

  Duane Gish

  Intelligent, Two, Goal

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• I do think comedy needs to be a living thing, but I think without a great script and fully realized characters, you cannot keep it living. Otherwise it just becomes long and rambling indulgent.

  Melissa McCarthy

  Character, Thinking, Long

  Source: collider.com

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• A living thing is born.

  Woodrow Wilson

  League, Born, League Of Nations

  Woodrow Wilson (1965). “The Political Thought of Woodrow Wilson”

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• how seasonably
  leaf and blossom uncurl
  and living things arrange their death,
  while someone from afar off
  blows birthday candles for the world.

  Irving Layton

  Blow, World, Afar

  Irving Layton (1977). “The Selected Poems of Irving Layton”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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