Use Quotes - Page 203

The value comes from what is there, but the use comes from what is not there.

The policy of the house of Austria, which aimed at destroying the independence of Hungary as a state, has been pursued unaltered for three hundred years.

They do not love one another because they do not love themselves.

The mantras, however, are mysterious and each word is profound in meaning. When they are transliterated into Chinese, the original meanings are modified and the long and short vowels are confused. In the end we can get roughly similar sounds but not precisely the same ones. Unless we use Sanskrit, it is hardly possible to differentiate the long and short sounds. The purpose of retaining the source materials, indeed, lies here.

Success is like death. The more successful you become, the higher the houses in the hills get and the higher the fences get.

Whether you're going to a museum or a flea market or flipping through a book, always be on the lookout for something special.

I began working within the streets of Harlem, where, after graduating from Yale [University, New Haven, CT], I became the artist in residence at the Studio Museum in Harlem [New York, NY]. I wanted to know what that was about. I would actually pull people from off of the streets and ask them to come to my studio.

Ability means all of us finding our strengths and putting them to full use.

Black people should have recognition for themselves and their backgrounds and their relationships with other people in the world and thus lose some of their alienation. This museum has certainly stood for that in this town.

The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own.

When it comes to my interpersonal relationships with men, of course, a lifetime of abuse vastly affected everything I did. I always came from a place of abuse, actually wanting, welcoming, and accepting it because that was my language. It never seemed strange to me.

To use is necessary. And if you can't be used, then you're useless.

I went to Mexico City to visit, and I fell in love with the city. I went to my house to pick up my stuff. It was the craziest, most impulsive move I've ever done. I just felt like I had to stay there.

My boyfriend keeps telling me I've got to own things. So, first I bought this car. And then he told me I oughta get a house. 'Why a house?' 'Well, you gotta have a place to park the car.'

Commit to stop making excuses. When we make excuses, we lie to ourselves and continue bad habits.

If we are hungry enough for God, we will find a way into His presence. We should be so hungry for the presence of God that we absolutely will not go out of our house or tackle any kind of project until we have spent some time with Him.

I suppose I passed it a hundred times, But I always stop for a minute. And look at the house, the tragic house, The house with nobody in it.

I would much rather always look forward to the time when I am going to ride in a carriage, than to look back on the time when I used to.

We are our memory, we are that chimerical museum of shifting shapes, that pile of broken mirrors.

There is, therefore, no difficulty in answering such questions as these. What cause was there why the Universe was placed in such a part of Space? and, Why was the Universe created at such a Time? for, if there be no Space beyond the Universe, it was impossible that it should be created in another place; and if there was no Time before, it was impossible it should be created at another time.

I pictured myself as a virus or a cancer cell and tried to sense what it would be like.

Whatever the natural cause, sin is the true cause of all earthquakes.

Never use a gallon of words to express a spoonful of thought. Our unadorned word should be enough.

I know now why confusion in government is not only tolerated but encouraged. I have learned. A confused people can make no clear demands.

You should see it. V for Vendetta I mean. "I'll look it up." No. With Me. At my house. Now