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contemplative-life people upset
I admire people who are suited to the contemplative life. They can sit inside themselves like honey in a jar and just be. It's wonderful to have someone like that around, you always feel you can count on them. You can go away and come back, you can change your mind and your hairdo and your politics, and when you get through doing all these upsetting things, you look around and there they are, just the way they were, just being. Elizabeth Janeway
contemplative-life contemplation contemplative
The act of contemplation then creates the thing created. Isaac Disraeli
contemplative-life law down-and
One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you. Thomas Merton
law practice leather-pants
If I lose, I'm going to retire from politics, practice law, and wear bright leather pants. Carol Moseley Braun
law world-government way
It is obvious that no difficulty in the way of world government can match the danger of a world without it. Carl Clinton Van Doren
law rivers guy
Guy Rivers, a conventional piece as regards the love affair which makes a part of the plot, is a tale of deadly strife between the laws of Georgia and a fiendish bandit. Carl Clinton Van Doren
law demand scientist
By explanation the scientist understands nothing except the reduction to the least and simplest basic laws possible, beyond which he cannot go, but must plainly demand them; from them however he deduces the phenomena absolutely completely as necessary. Carl Friedrich Gauss
law nails doe
There is nothing indulgent about the Moral Law. It is as hard as nails. It tells you to do the straight thing and it does not seem to care how painful, or dangerous, or difficult it is to do. C. S. Lewis
law
We have to go by what the law is and when you're 19, you have to go. Rob Johnson
law optimism triumph
There is an optimism which nobly anticipates the eventual triumph of great moral laws, and there is an optimism which cheerfully tolerates unworthiness. Agnes Repplier
law justice unjust
There is no justice in following unjust laws. Aaron Swartz
law america people
America undermines its own ideals when it ignores the very values it is promoting around the world. You cannot ask other people in the world to follow the law and act responsibly if we don't do the same ... and being afraid is not an excuse. Aasif Mandvi
down-and fraud gross
The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence. Charles Caleb Colton
down-and way dollars
Nobody's profitable at this moment, because recession is on; advertising dollars are down, and expenses are way up. So that kind of belies the situation that you would expect, because the ratings are way up everywhere. Brit Hume
down-and doe up-and-down
I learned that life will go through changes - up and down and up again. It's what life does. Ben Okri
down-and imagine streets
Imagine if your business burned down and you had to walk across the street and start again, what would you do differently? Brian Tracy
down-and maximum-effort
Just keep your head down and do your best. Charlie Munger
down-and way sometimes
Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?" "I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me! Charles M. Schulz
down-and bigs stuck
If I'm stuck, I'll sit down and read. That's a big thing. Craig Finn
down-and intense-emotions deals
My own approach has always been to push intense emotions down and attempt to deal with them later. Alanis Morissette
down-and quitter
I had to sit down and explain to [her friend] that AA was for quitters Chelsea Handler