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Quotes About Maurice

I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets.
~ Maurice Sendak
We in the industrialized world make a greater difference because our ecological footprint, our impact on the condition of the environment, is 40 to 50 times larger than that of people in the developing world.
~ Maurice Strong
My intention here is to make it clear that not a single cell of my composition, here in regard to The Raven, is found by chance or intuition, that the composition moved towards perfection with the precision and inevitability of a mathematical equation.
~ Maurice Ravel
And the wild things...gnashed their terrible teeth ...
~ Maurice Sendak
I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets. The war took care of the for me.
~ Maurice Sendak
You cannot write for children They're much too complicated. You can only write books that are of interest to them.
~ Maurice Sendak
Maurice Richard c'est tout le Québec qui est debout. Qui fait peur et qui vit.
~ Félix Leclerc
Remember that I wrote a pavane for a dead princess, and not a dead pavane for a princess!
~ Maurice Ravel
I became a set designer for opera. I'm a great opera buff, I love classical music, and I needed a time-out.
~ Maurice Sendak
I've been working through Maurice Druon's 'Accursed Kings' series. They come highly recommended from George R. R. Martin, and for good reason.
~ Victoria Aveyard
Japanese women have always loved my films, even when no one else did. Ever since I made 'Maurice' in the 1980s, I've been getting hundreds of letter from Japanese girls. They definitely have a special place in my heart.
~ Hugh Grant
I've always made it clear that I do not believe that global government is either necessary or feasible.
~ Maurice Strong
Once I found out that track and field was an organized sport, the era I followed more closely was that of Maurice Greene and Michael Johnson.
~ Justin Gatlin
Maurice' was a groundbreaking film. People didn't feel that then but looking back everyone says that.
~ James Ivory
My father could be very witty, even if the humor was always on the darker side of irony.
~ Maurice Sendak
The real goal of the Earth Charter is that it will in fact become like the Ten Commandments.
~ Maurice Strong
Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.
~ Maurice Maeterlinck
Everything written has a political bearing, even in the case of a study on bees.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Lebenswely = ...wild being and wild mind--'mute' experience that must itself speak.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Dialectic is not a property of consciousness, rather consciousness is the property of dialectic. Dialectic has consciousness. -From Philosophy and Non-Philosophy Since Hegel
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
In the movement of experience, which brings understanding, we reach the absolute which is not something behind it or under it, but which is a water-mark within it and which exists only as a water-mark. -From Philosophy and Non-Philosophy Since Hegel
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
If Nature is not an object of thought, that is, a simple correlate of a thought, it is decidedly not a subject either, and for the same reason: its opacity, its enveloping. It is an obscure principle.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
The idea of chiasm, that is: every relation with being is simultaneously a taking and a being taken, the hold is held, it is inscribed and inscribed in the same being that it takes hold of.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty
For us a noncommunist left is this double position, posing social problems in terms of struggle and refusing the dictatorship of the proletariat.
~ Maurice Merleau-Ponty