Quotes About Origin

There is to my mind no doubt that the concept of beautiful had its roots in sexual excitation and that its original meaning was sexually stimulating.

The best way to solve any problem is to remove its cause.

Take away the cause, and the effect ceases.

The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was likewise the founder of American slavery.

What business is it of yours where I'm from, friendo?

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

In the beginning was the Word,' says the Gospel of John. But the truth is, words came later. In the beginning was the rose.

There is no real origin for anything. Everything just exists. Everything just exists in order to exist.

The argot that came to be used in the courts was known as 'Law French'. 'Master' and 'servant' come from the French. 'Crime' and 'treason' and 'felony' are French, as are 'money' and 'payment'. The

I stared at her - unable to accept that at one time I was growing inside her. I was once just a couple of cells. My father and my mother were naked something had to be satisfactory about it, because he came inside her and she got pregnant. She, like me, was once a baby in her mother's stomach and so on and so forth and so it goes. So it goes.

Second, the origin of evil is not the Creator but the creature's freely choosing sin and selfishness.

When evil had taken root in this house, it had grown here first.

I liked the place I came from, but a lot of what I liked about it was that I had come from there.

Nearly our entire intellectual education originates from the Greeks. A thorough knowledge of their origin is the indisputable prerequisite for freeing ourselves from their overwhelming influence.

The origin of the Form Destroyer is unclear; it is, for instance, not possible to declare whether (one) he was a separate entity from God from the start, uncreated by God but also self-creating, as is God, or (two) whether the Form Destroyer is an aspect of God...

Who are you? the woman said at last. Lyra Silver— No, where d'you come from? What are you? How do you know things like this? Wearily Lyra sighed; she had forgotten how roundabout Scholars could be. It was difficult to tell them the truth when a lie would have been so much easier for them to understand.

Somewhere out there is the origin of all the Dust, all the death, the sin, the misery, the destructiveness in the world. Human beings can't see anything without wanting to destroy it... That's original sin. And I'm going to destroy it.

How Far back must we go to discover the beginning of trouble?

How far back must you go to discover the beginning of trouble?

Even a monster has to be from somewhere—even a monster needs parents. But parents don't need monsters.

You and I are walking in the snow. Why are you walking backwards? I ask. You point in the direction we came from. So they'll think that's where I'm going. You point to where we're going. And that's where I'm from.

Well, where did it come from?" I asked. "How did I get it?" "How do we get most things?" he answered. "We buy them?

Aquí lo que nos importa es preservar las raíces, que los que vengan encuentren el origen, la antigüedad.

It is not the thing you fear that you must deal with, it is the mother of the thing you fear. The very thing that has given birth to the nightmare.