Quotes About Valid

A reputation, once developed, is as valuable as a fine sword. But don't forget that it has to be a valid reputation. Or the sword's go no edge.

Although they appear as inner events, the victory and transformation of the hero are valid for all mankind; they are held up for our contemplation, to be lived out in our own lives, or at least re-experienced by us.

The world exists on thousands of different levels and just because some are more tragic than others, it doesn't make them any more valid. You fall into that way of thinking and you become so overwhelmed by the world's suffering, you go mad.

I'm a false icon! The media collaborate in promoting my superficial lifestyle as somehow more valid, more worthy of attention than your real lives! - Gideon Stargrave

Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.

am saying that lesbianism, homosexuality, and heterosexuality are valid expressions of man's bisexual nature. I am also stressing the fact that love and sexuality are not necessarily the same thing. Sex is love's expression, but it is only one of love's expressions.

I'm not sure what I meant, but I wanted to use the lingo, and it was seductive to make these pronouncements. Through the years, I have learned there is no harm in charging oneself up with delusions between moments of valid inspiration.

What is a valid reason for someone to love someone else? Since apparently I'm doing it wrong.

Truly fine poetry must be read aloud. A good poem does not allow itself to be read in a low voice or silently. If we can read it silently, it is not a valid poem: a poem demands pronunciation. Poetry always remembers that it was an oral art before it was a written art. It remembers that it was first song.

If people wish to meet you or speak with you, you can say you are still relevant.

In my case, self-absorption is completely justified. I have never discovered any other subject quite so worthy of my attention.

I couldn't find anyone to tell me each minute, whatever I experience is a valid, beautiful moment—however tragic it is. That's what I needed to hear: Grief is a sacred time in our lives, and an important one. What

Security analysis, as a study, must necessarily concern itself as much as possible with principles and methods which are valid at all times—or, at least, under all ordinary conditions.

I come now to Berkeley's empirical arguments. To begin with, it is a sign of weakness to combine empirical and logical arguments, for the latter, if valid, make the former superfluous.1 If I am contending that a square cannot be round, I shall not appeal to the fact that no Square in any known city is round. But as we have rejected the logical arguments, it becomes necessary to consider the empirical arguments on their merits.

Punk was not something to grow out of; it was something to grow with—it was a valid, sustainable way to live one's life. "That's when I started to focus on the idea of what we were doing as being real, of being a working model of a real community, an alternative community that could continue to exist outside of the mainstream—and legitimately, and self-supporting," says MacKaye.

I shall go further and say that even if an examination of the past could lead to any valid prediction concerning man's future, that prediction would be the contrary of reassuring.

The world is full of annoyances, none more infuriating than a fool with a valid point.

I consider myself to be a man of principle. But, what man does not? Even the cutthroat, I have noticed, considers his actions "moral" after a fashion. Perhaps another person, reading of my life, would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid than my own? I guess it all comes down to one fact: In the end, I'm the one with the armies.

would name me a religious tyrant. He could call me arrogant. What is to make that man's opinion any less valid

None of us has ever seen a motive. Therefore, we don't know we can't do anything more than suspect what inspires the action of another. For this good and valid reason, we're told not to judge. Tragedy is that our attention centers on what people are not, rather than on what they are and who they might become.

Traditionally—if such a contraction be allowed—any form of intellectual aim that did not take account of this antecedent, archetypal order of reality would have been considered all but invalid. Now, in many quarters, to give any sort of credence to its effective presence is likely to be seen as a sign of willful eccentricity.

something is good and universally acknowledged to be so, this is not reason enough to dislike it.

Like many people, there have been times in your life when you have been concerned about the possibility of going to hell. You didn't realize you were already there. There is an old Hebrew mystical tradition that says hell is distance from God and Heaven is closeness to Him — a thought that is quite valid.

For Schaeffer "rationality" means mankind thinking in a way that is not contrary to reason, or as he put it, "man's aspiration of reason is valid.