Devoted Quotes - Page 21

• Most of you are predominantly nagual. You have trouble with the physical life because you have devoted more of your attention to the mysterious side of your being.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Attention, Sides

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• a personality devoted uniquely to its own development absorbs other lives.

  Georgette Leblanc

  Personality, Development

  Georgette Leblanc (1932). “Souvenirs: My Life with Maeterlinck”

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• For never has there been, in modern times, such a Homeric world, where so much value is pinned onto the utterance of name! Entire conversations, entire lives, are devoted to the act of naming people, and in Pakistan the affluent would be totally devoid of talk if they were unable to take names in vain. Caste and all its subclassifications are recreated every day in the structure of a conversation that knows which names to name.

  Sara Suleri

  Names, People, Would Be

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• Widowhood provided Mama with a higher form of being. In refusing to recover from my father's death she had discovered that her life was endowed with a seriousness her years in the kitchen had denied her. She remained devoted to this seriousness for thirty years. She never tired of it, never grew bored or restless in its company, found new ways to keep alive the interest it deserved and had so undeniably earned.

  Vivian Gornick

  Father, Tired, Years

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• New York City is just one node on the global cultural scene. Social media reflects the state of the world, so I've become more devoted to that. To be a NYC artist feels local and small. Social media feels now.

  Kenneth Goldsmith

  New York, Artist, Media

  Source: logger.believermag.com

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• A single word indicative of doubt, that any thing, or every thing, in that country is not the very best in the world, produces an effect which must be seen and felt to be understood. If the citizens of the United States were indeed the devoted patriots they call themselves, they would surely not thus encrust themselves in the hard, dry, stubborn persuasion, that they are the first and best of the human race, that nothing is to be learnt, but what they are able to teach, and that nothing is worth having, which they do not possess.

  Frances Trollope

  Country, Race, Arrogance

  Frances Milton Trollope (1832). “Domestic Manners of the Americans: Complete in One Volume”, p.325

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• Dartmouth is the place I've devoted my life to, so it's very sad to see this kind of decline in the intellectual strength of the institution.

  Jon Appleton

  Intellectual, Kind, Very Sad

  "Long-time music prof leaves for Stanford". The Dartmouth, September 30, 2005.

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• I am proud that I have devoted all my life to the struggle for the triumph of Leninism.

  Tim Buck

  Struggle, Triumph, Proud

  "Tim Buck: A Conscience for Canada". Book by Oscar Ryan, 1975.

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• Religion is not simply a theory, it is a higher life, of which morality is an integral part - a life devoted to the worship of the good and the true, for God, the absolute, is the supreme source of all perfection" ("La religion n'et pas une smple théorie, elle est une vie supérieure, dont la moralité fait partie intégrante - une vie vouée au culte du bien et du vrai, car Dieu, l'absolu est la source de toute perfection", Fr.)

  African Spir

  Perfection, Car, Morality

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 40), 1937.

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• Nothing is more stimulating and more salutary to (or for) the inner (or inward) development than the exemple of men devoted to the good. It is in the company of men pursuing a same ideal that the still weavering (or unsteady) soul can set oneself ("se fixer", Fr) and stick to (or attach to) everything that is noble and generous.

  African Spir

  Men, Soul, Sticks

  "Paroles d'un sage: Choix de pensées d'African Spir" ("Words of a Sage : Selected thoughts of African Spir") by Hélène Claparède-Spir, (p. 58), 1937.

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• Selfish people are, by definition, those whose activities are devoted to bringing themselves happiness. Yet. . . these selfish people are far less likely to be happy than those whose efforts are devoted to making others happy.

  Bernard Rimland

  Selfish, People, Effort

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• Then years back, when I moved to California, I happened to see a book about fashions of 19th-century Victorian England, only four pages of which was devoted to the dress of the working class.

  Bill Vaughan

  Fashion, Book, Years

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• At the moment, my trajectory isn't to think about acting. I'm absolutely devoted to The Imaginarium, our projects and directing. And watching and enabling other actors do their thing in our studio is hugely rewarding. I expect at some point I'll probably want to go back on stage and do some theater, because I've not done theater in 10 years.

  Andy Serkis

  Thinking, Years, Acting

  "Andy Serkis plays dual role in "Hobbit" - Gollum and director". Interview with Zorianna Kit, www.reuters.com. December 11, 2012.

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• I was most incorrigibly devoted to versifying, and all my spouse's wholesome admonitions had no manner of effect on me; in short, I believe this scribbling itch is an incurable disease.

  Laetitia Pilkington

  Believe, Disease, Admonition

  Laetitia Pilkington (1997). “Memoirs of Laetitia Pilkington”, p.56, University of Georgia Press

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• [On the socialites in New York in the Nineties who devoted themselves to politics, charities, and other volunteer work:] I never knew but one woman who devoted her life exclusively to the social game. She ended her days arranging dinner parties with paper dolls, a breakdown pitiful to watch.

  Margaret Case Harriman

  New York, Party, Games

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• Im not really devoted or specified towards any specific genre at all. I really like it all. Theres good storytelling in all the genres, you know. I just want to tell good stories and do good work.

  Angela Bettis

  Want, Stories, Storytelling

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• It was with the utmost difficulty that ancient Rome could support the institution of six vestals; but the primitive church was filled with a great number of persons of either sex who had devoted themselves to the profession of perpetual chastity.

  Edward Gibbon

  Sex, Rome, Numbers

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.187

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• The love of spectacles was the taste, or rather passion, of the Syrians: the most skilful artists were procured form the adjacent cities; a considerable share of the revenue was devoted to the public amusements; and the magnificence of the games of the theatre and circus was considered as the happiness, and as the glory, of Antioch.

  Edward Gibbon

  Passion, Artist, Games

  Edward Gibbon (1998). “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire”, p.510, Wordsworth Editions

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• Yet the people, and even the clergy, incapable of forming any rational judgment of the business of peace and war, presumed to arraign the policy of Stilicho, who so often vanquished, so often surrounded, and so often dismissed the implacable enemy of the republic. The first moment of the public safety is devoted to gratitude and joy; but the second is diligently occupied by envy and calumny.

  Edward Gibbon

  Gratitude, War, People

  Edward Gibbon (2009). “The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Edited and Abridged): Abridged Edition”, p.552, Modern Library

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• To that movement, consecrated by religious principle, sustained by an awful sense of justice, and cheered by the brightest hopes of future good, all our powers, talents, and attainments are devoted.

  George Ripley

  Religious, Justice, Principles

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• I don't flirt. It's disrespectful to your husband. I would never do that. I'm very devoted, and he's the same.

  Heidi Klum

  Husband, Flirting, Disrespectful

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• I think of myself as a fairly attractive girl and always have, thanks to my mom. I was brought into this world thinking I was gorgeous because my mother was extremely devoted to this notion.

  Amy Schumer

  Girl, Mom, Mother

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the end, people don't view their life as merely the average of all its moments-which, after all, is mostly nothing much plus some sleep. For human beings, life is meaningful because it is a story. A story has a sense of a whole, and its arc is determined by the significant moments, the ones where something happens. Measurements of people's minute-by-minute levels of pleasure and pain miss this fundamental aspect of human existence. A seemingly happy life maybe empty. A seemingly difficult life may be devoted to a great cause. We have purposes larger than ourselves.

  Atul Gawande

  Meaningful, Pain, Sleep

  Atul Gawande (2014). “Being Mortal: Illness, Medicine and What Matters in the End”, p.162, Profile Books

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• If, as the dowager had said, we are nothing but gene carriers, why do so many of us have to lead such strangely shaped lives? Wouldn't our genetic purpose-to transmit DNA-be served just as well if we lived simple lives, not bothering our heads with a lot of extraneous thoughts, devoted entirely to preserving life and procreating? Did it benefit the genes in any way for us to lead such intricately warped, even bizarre, lives?

  Haruki Murakami

  Simple, Dna, Way

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• The Ertegun Jazz Hall of Fame will provide a center where the lives and the artistry of the greatest jazz musicians will be celebrated, and where people will come to learn about jazz, something to which my brother devoted his lifes work.

  Ahmet Ertegun

  Brother, People, Musician

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