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Quotes About Creation

These then are my last words to you. Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~ William James
Believe that life is worth living and your belief will help create the fact.
~ William James
How comes the world to be here at all instead of the nonentity which might be imagined in its place? ... from nothing to being there is no logical bridge.
~ William James
Edwards says elsewhere: I am bold to say that the work of God in the conversion of one soul, considered together with the source foundation, and purchase of it, and also the benefit, end, and eternal issue of it, is a more glorious work of God than the creation of the whole material universe.
~ William James
In the beginning God created Heaven and Earth. Man, a bit later, created the fable that the dog, when he understands, always wants to please.
~ William Koehler
This government was Papen's conception, his creation, and he was confident that with the help of the staunch old President, who was his friend, admirer and protector, and with the knowing support of his conservative colleagues, who outnumbered the obstreperous Nazis eight to three, he would dominate it.
~ William L. Shirer
My work feels like strands of my thoughts that have flown around the universe before coming back to materialise.
~ Chiho Aoshima
The best way to write a novel is to do it behind your own back.
~ China Mieville
This is a Possible Letter. Until the last second, when I write your name beside that word "Dear," all those sheets and months ago, this is a Possible Letter, pregnant with potentiality. I am very powerful right now. I am all ready to mine the possibilities, make one of them fact.
~ China Mieville
Gods it's well done , she thought, bowing her head, acknowledging consummate work. She felt skeins of cause, effect, effort, and interaction tying around her. She felt things all coming together, pushing her into this place, at this time, having done this thing.
~ China Mieville
They looked like people-shaped clay in the moments before God breathed out.
~ China Mieville
The Virgin birth's a way of thinking about women and about love. The ark is a far more bloody logical way of thinking about the question of animal husbandry than the delightful ad hoc thuggery we've instituted. Creationism's a way of thinking I am not worthless at a time when people were being told and shown they were.
~ China Mieville
One moment it was a calculating machine, attempting dispassionately to keep up with the gouts of data. And then awash in those gouts, something metal twitched and a patter of valves sounded that had not been instructed by those numbers. A loop of data was self-generated by the analytical engine. The processor reflected on its creation in a hiss of high-pressure steam. One moment it was a calculating machine. The next, it thought.
~ China Mieville
Those created creations were treated like tools that talked, their sentience an annoying product of magic noise, by those little mortal demiurges who thought dominion a natural by-product of expertise or creation.
~ China Mieville
Art is something you choose to make... it's a bringing together of... of everything around you into something that makes you more human, more khepri, whatever. More of a person.
~ China Mieville
A maker of IDOLS is never an idolater.
~ Chinese proverb
If Heaven made him — earth can find some use for him.
~ Chinese proverb
Life begins the day you start a garden.
~ Chinese proverb
No j?va is ever born; there exists no cause to produce it. That is the highest Truth, where nothing is ever born'.
~ Chinmayananda
Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him.
~ Chinua Achebe
People create stories create people; or rather stories create people create stories.
~ Chinua Achebe
You can be the architect of moments that matter.
~ Chip Heath
In other words, companies aren't born in garages. Companies are born in companies. This
~ Chip Heath
What if we didn't just remember the defining moments of our lives but made them?
~ Chip Heath