Quotes About Aspects

The almost erotic pleasure of spending money that others have earned and saved is one reason people put up with the tiresome aspects of political life.

Pleasure and pain are only aspects of the mind. Our essential nature is happiness

I think we present extreme aspects of human behavior and hopefully get at times, messages across or bring issues to the table or as we so often say, shed light into the dark crevices of human nature

I would not say that I was, these days, a 'student' of philosophy, although in my youth I was quite deeply involved with certain aspects of the British pragmatists.

Anybody who has listened to certain kinds of music, or read certain kinds of poetry, or heard certain kinds of performances on the concertina, will admit that even suicide has its brighter aspects.

And in part that's good but then, like any emotion - and this is something we learned from the research as well - there are positive and negative aspects to all of these.

Our novelists, therefore, concern themselves with the more smiling aspects of life, which are the more American, and seek the universal in the individual rather than the social interests.

I also realized that there were lots of unacknowledged theater forms going on all around. Our lives are filled with performances that have been so woven into our daily routine that the artificial and performative aspect has slipped into invisibility.

Noted American Orthodox theologian Alexander Schmemann maintained that God desires that we approach all aspects of life sacramentally. That is, there is nothing that God created that is inherently secular. The destiny of everything in this world is achieved when we recognize its capacity to connect us mystically with God.

no complex, nonlinear system can be adequately described by dividing it up into subsystems or into various aspects, defined beforehand.

I think of horror films as art, as films of confrontation. Films that make you confront aspects of your own life that are difficult to face. Just because you're making a horror film doesn't mean you can't make an artful film.

There are many important things in life worth worrying about. There are even some aspects of music that warrant thoughtful consideration from conscientious musicians. If we take the research seriously, chordal-tone doubling is not one of them.

The extraterrestrials who are dubbed "aliens" are actually other aspects of ourselves. They are not "alien" at all. They are part of us.

The primary contribution of government to this world is to elicit, entrench, enable, and finally to codify the most destructive aspects of the human personality.

One of the most unique aspects among many about the USA is that our transitions of 'power' have almost always been peaceful. This is very unique in all of history and in the world today".

Fiction is ideally suited to re-creating the important emotional aspects of history.

I have a real passion for many aspects of home lifestyle and beauty.

As with all other aspects of fiction, the key to writing good dialogue is honesty.

Frederick Buechner can find grace and redemption even in the shoddiest, phoniest aspects of a cultural wasteland. One reads Lion Country...with hope and delight.

Usually monsters are some aspect of human behavior or humanity at large.

The Russian verb is weak in tenses, strong in Aspects. [...] These aspects are in the very blood of the Slav. [...] These aspects I believe to be of profound psychological significance and this significance has not I think so far been fully understood.

Hebrew is a language which has no tenses at all , it has only aspects.

Ogni volta che parliamo di «personalità» - sia maschile che femminile - noi ci riferiamo a una totalità, a un insieme composito di molteplici aspetti. Naturalmente alcuni saranno predominanti e sarà quindi più facile notarli dall'esterno; altri invece saranno più velati, nascosti, ma non per questo non faranno sentire la loro presenza.

Well, it's a - I don't want to disappoint you, but it's a time worn tradition of Australian Governments over many years not to get into any discussion about that aspect of intelligence matters.