Orientation Quotes

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  What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it's curved like a road through mountains.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, Gay, Lgbt Community

  Tennessee Williams (1975). “Memoirs”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

  Hans Magnus Enzensberger

  Style, Disorientation

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• There's this illusion that homosexuals have sex and heterosexuals fall in love. That's completely untrue. Everybody wants to be loved.

  Boy George

  Falling In Love, Sex, Gay

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• Whatever your orientation is, it is working on everything around you.

  John de Ruiter

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• Everybody's journey is individual. If you fall in love with a boy, you fall in love with a boy. The fact that many Americans consider it a disease says more about them than it does about homosexuality.

  James A. Baldwin

  Falling In Love, Gay, Boys

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• It always seemed to me a bit pointless to disapprove of homosexuality. It's like disapproving of rain.

  Francis Maude

  Rain, Gay, Lgbt Pride

  "UK Politics 'Your Family Matters Most'". The Sunday Times Interview, news.bbc.co.uk. November 15, 1998.

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• Hope is the deep orientation of the human soul that can be held at the darkest times.

  Vaclav Havel

  Soul, Humans, Darkest Times

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• First and foremost it is essential to understand the essence, the overall idea of any fashionable variation, and only then include it in one's repertoire. Otherwise the tactical trees will conceal from the player the strategic picture of the wood, in which his orientation will most likely be lost.

  Lev Polugaevsky

  Player, Essence, Practice

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• The true problem with virtual reality is that orientation is no longer possible. We have lost our points of reference to orient ourselves. The de-realized man is a disoriented man.

  Paul Virilio

  Reality, Men, Problem

  Source: ctheory.net

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• We have an orientation that tends to make us think that everything is our responsibility and that we should be doing this. It is the Iraqis' country, 28 million of them. They are perfectly capable of running that country.

  Donald Rumsfeld

  Running, Country, Responsibility

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• I am a victim-oriented person. I like to see that the victims know that they have a voice.

  Fatou Bensouda

  Voice, Freedom Of Speech, Victim

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• As long as our orientation is toward perfection or success, we will never learn about unconditional friendship with ourselves, nor will we find compassion.

  Pema Chodron

  Compassion, Long, Perfection

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• Homosexuality is God's way of insuring that the truly gifted aren't burdened with children.

  Samuel Austin Allibone

  Children, Gay, Lgbt Pride

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• Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.

  Reverend Malcolm Boyd

  Jesus, Role Models, Example

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• Man does not have the right to develop his own mind. This kind of liberal orientation has great appeal. We must electrically control the brain. Some day armies and generals will be controlled by electrical stimulation of the brain.

  Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado

  Army, Men, Brain

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• The time has come to make the protection of children - all our children - a common cause that can unite us across the boundaries of our political orientation, religious affiliation and cultural traditions. We must reclaim our lost taboos, and make the abuse and brutalization of children simply unaccepetable.

  Olara Otunnu

  Religious, Children, Political

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• Just as love is an orientation which refers to all objects and is incompatible with the restriction to one object, so is reason a human faculty which must embrace the whole of the world with which man is confronted.

  Erich Fromm

  Love, Men, World

  Erich Fromm (2013). “Sane Society Ils 252”, p.64, Routledge

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• The history and national interest of Rwanda and the Rwandan people dictate our national orientation.

  Paul Kagame

  People, Interest, Rwanda

  "Exclusive interview: Paul Kagame, president of Rwanda". Interview with Tony Metcalf, www.metro.us. August 29, 2012.

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• The only people are those who don't love anybody.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, People

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• It got so ridiculous that I was like, there's no way this is going to last.

  Philip J. Kaplan

  Way, Lasts, Ridiculous

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• It is not reason that gives us our moral orientation, it is sensitivity.

  Maurice Barres

  Art, Philosophy, History

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• No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love

  Rita Mae Brown

  Gay, Lgbt Pride, Government

  1982 Speech, 28 Aug, at the opening ceremony of the Gay Olympics, San Francisco.

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• When we're in a human body, we don't care about universal collapse - instead, we care only about a meeting of the eyes, a glimpse of bare flesh, the caressing tones of a loved voice, joy, love, light, the orientation of a house plant, the shade of a paint stroke, the arrangement of hair.

  David Eagleman

  Eye, Light, Hair

  FaceBook post by David Eagleman from May 31, 2016

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• It is capitalist America that produced the modern independent woman.

  Camille Paglia

  Independent, America, Politics

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.84, Vintage

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• Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night.

  Woody Allen

  Funny, Hilarious, Sexy

  Quoted in N.Y. Times, 1 Dec. 1975

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