Suggestions Quotes - Page 2

Possibly my hatred of war blinds me so that I cannot comprehend the arguments they adduce. But, in my opinion, there is no such thing as a preventive war. Although this suggestion is repeatedly made, none has yet explained how war prevents war. Worse than this, no one has been able to explain away the fact that war creates the conditions that beget war.

If you're going to knock down my suggestion, you'd better have one to replace it.

I'm a firm believer in my higher power havin' a plan, and he's never wrong, and he's not open to suggestions.

You should tell yourself frequently 'I will only react to constructive suggestions.' This gives you positive ammunition against your own negative thoughts and those of others.

The lives of all of us have been moulded largely by induction through suggestion.

I think a dream is just a suggestion to start something out, do something.

The reason God made man before woman was that he didn't want any suggestions.

Democracy is the suggestion box for slaves.

Everything you've learned in school as "obvious" becomes less and less obvious as you begin to study the universe. For example, there are no solids in the universe. There's not even a suggestion of a solid. There are no absolute continuums. There are no surfaces. There are no straight lines.

A man carries out suggestions the more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.

You are here. However you imagine yourself to be, you are here. Imagine yourself as a body, you are here. Imagine yourself as God, you are here. Imagine yourself as worthless, superior, nothing at all, you are still here. My suggestion is that you stop all imagining, here.

From our birth to our death we are all the slaves of suggestion.

Not only are we harried by time, we seem unable, despite a thousand generations, even to get used to it. We are always amazed at it–how fast it goes, how slowly it goes, how much of it is gone. Where, we cry, has the time gone? We aren’t adapted to it, not at home in it. If that is so, it may appear as a proof, or at least a powerful suggestion, that eternity exists and is our home.

The most welcome guest in society will ever be the one to whose mind everything is a suggestion, and whose words suggest something to everybody.

A holy mind cannot repeat a vile thing, let alone be the creator of a vile suggestion.

Even evil and evil-doing can be overcome by suggestion.

A fine suggestion, a sketch with great feeling, can be as expressive as the most finished product.

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

This is not a screenplay. I don't do twenty drafts. I'm not going to show this to you until it's published or accepted for publication. You can make whatever suggestions you want, but I probably will ignore them entirely.

When people approach you angrily, you take them very seriously, and, if you're like me, with the faint suggestion that you can be angry too, and that you would like to know what the shooting is about

In each person I catch the fleeting suggestion of something beautiful and swear eternal friendship with that.

The suggestion that petroleum might have arisen from some transformation of squashed fish or biological detritus is surely the silliest notion to have been entertained by substantial numbers of persons over an extended period of time.

If we want a better original idea, we must generate our own before we screen others' suggestions.

Don't hire a master to paint you a masterpiece and then assign a roomful of schoolboy artists to look over his shoulder and make suggestions.

With the ambitious, the failure of one expedient is the suggestion of another; but with the irresolute, defeat usually occasions abandonment of purpose.