Quotes About Origination

A man from a primitive culture who sees an automobile might guess that it was powered by the wind or by an antelope hidden under the car, but when he opens up the hood and sees the engine he immediately realizes that it was designed.

The art of creation is older than the art of killing.

Maybe everything depends . . . on where you're born, and the inadequacy of the destiny that follows from that.

Necessity is the mother of invention

Countries, sovereignty, citizenship, and laws are all social constructions: abstractions invented by humans.

I like to do things that I develop from the ground up.

As it must not, so genius cannot be lawless; for it is even that constitutes its genius-- the power of acting creatively under laws of its own origination.

We depend on him for our being and for our knowing—especially our knowing of him. We are because he is. We know because he reveals. We do not originate our existence or our knowledge. He is the ultimate source and foundation of both.

I heaved into being, came out of the stone, the bricks, and other elements, and took form. (Dark City Lights)

There is the first creation to every part of our lives

It's amazing to think that every item of clothing we wear began as an idea in somebodies head. Whether it's a designer dress or a cheap remake, someone somewhere had an idea and brought it to life.

True 3D is, you have to kind of originate the images in three dimensions.

Right here" is the reality of interdependent origination, the reality in which everything, including human beings, exists within the vast network of causes and conditions.

It means a great deal, I think, to start off on a foundation which one has made for oneself.

Long Beach Savings was the first existing bank to adopt what was called the "originate and sell" model. This proved such a hit—Wall Street would buy your loans, even if you would not!—that a new company, called B&C mortgage, was founded to do nothing but originate and sell.

Zhenya Luvers was born and grew up in Perm.

There is no beginning too small.

More than anyone he had brought the USSR into being.

C]reation is not simply viewed as a matter of origination or a divine activity chronologically set only in the beginning.

This is, because that is. This is not, because that is not. This is born, because that is born. This dies, because that dies.

Those who try to make room for sex as mere casual enjoyment pay the penalty: they become shallow. At any rate the talk that reflects and commends this attitude is always shallow. They dishonour their own bodies; holding cheap what is naturally connected with the origination of human life.

Whatever is subject to origination is all subject to cessation.

Never underestimate the importance of the beginning. Of anything. The beginning has the seeds of everything else to come.

The way of war was the invention of heavenly beings.