Quotes About Impetus

Mine is far from an original conclusion, but in recent decades it has not been fashionable, so I should state the argument explicitly: The Greeks laid the foundation, but it was the transmutation of that foundation by Christianity that gave modern Europe its impetus and differentiated European accomplishment from that of all other cultures around the world.[24]

I do not want to speak about overpopulation or birth control, but I think education is the way to give new impetus to the poverty question.

I have the outsider's vision, which is creating wisdom I can share with the world. The fact that I am misunderstood has always given me an added impetus to work on communication to bridge the gap.

I really do hope that the Millennium Summit gives new impetus to the work of the United Nations.

Some stimulus is not a bad thing.

Sharia is the impetus behind multinational diplomatic efforts to accommodate Sharia blasphemy prohibitions on expression that offends Muslims.

He gave the human mind a great impetus; he prepared us for freedom.

If life realizes a plan, it ought to manifest a greater harmony the further it advances, just as the house shows better and better the idea of the architect as stone is set upon stone. If, on the contrary, the unity of life is to be found solely in the impetus that pushes it along the road of time, the harmony is not in front, but behind.

SARS was a very important event... And many countries have learned from SARS... The SARS event sort of gave them additional impetus and the sense of urgency for them to really revise the International Health Regulations.

I've seen the needless struggles that deaf children and deaf people face, and that gave me the impetus to write.

The railroad, for instance, was "an unnatural impetus to society," one journalist concluded, that would "destroy all the relations that exist between man and man, overthrow all mercantile regulation, and create, at the peril of life, all sorts of confusion and distress.

love is just a further impetus, not something that will prevent us going forward. We do not realize that those who genuinely wish us well want us to be happy and are prepared to accompany us on that journey.

Each human act has countless causes. The author works to reveal these causes.

We are impatient for results.

Every work, no matter how short or antilinear, needs momentum;

Politics consist in giving the nation an impetus by creating an oligarchy embodying a fixed theory of government, and able to direct public affairs along a straight path, instead of allowing the country to be pulled in a thousand different directions, which is what has been happening for the last forty years in our beautiful France

Sometimes - history needs a push.

He laughed a little, in an odd, nervous kind of way. Because if I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die--and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

I]f I don't get going soon, the whole impetus may die---and if that happens, well, I really shall consider a long, restful plunge into insanity. Sometimes the abyss yawns very attractively.

I identify this heart with what I have called elementary experience; that is, it is something that tends to indicate totally the original impetus with which the human being reaches out to reality, seeking to become one with it. He does this by fulfilling a project that dictates to reality itself the ideal image that stimulates him from within.

It is courage which makes you fight through your fears and help you become more self confident, confidence provides necessary impetus to your effort and you achieve the success which you deserve most. Positive state of mind makes it easier to avoid worries and negative thinking.

Belief in self gives necessary impetus to confidence. It catalyzes inherent capacity to maximum and gives wings of passion to make successful outcome of endeavor.

Whatever this is…this impetus you have to help me right now, I know it's a lie. You're not kind, Blake, and I've had more than enough lies in my life. I don't want any more.

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.