Vague Quotes - Page 24

• A tent, a roll mat, a little bit of food, a bit of petrol in your tank and a vague idea of where you're going and that's all you need.

  Ewan McGregor

  Ideas, Tanks, Needs

  MarketWatch, September 30, 2008.

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• It's a lot of anti-gay, racist humor—which people like in America—all couched in 'I'm telling it like it is.' He's in the right place at the right time for that gee-shucks, proud-to-be-a-redneck, I'm-just-a-straight-shooter-multimillionaire-in-cutoff-flannel-selling-ring-tones act. That's where we are as a nation now. We're in a state of vague American values and anti-intellectual pride.

  David Cross

  Pride, Gay, Redneck

  "David Cross returns to stand-up to make America great again". Interview with Dustin Waters, www.charlestoncitypaper.com. February 24, 2016.

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• "There is no greater gift to an insecure leader that quite matches a vague enemy who can be used to whip up fear and hatred among the population."

  Paul Rusesabagina

  Fear, Insecure, Hatred

  Paul Rusesabagina (2009). “An Ordinary Man: The True Story Behind Hotel Rwanda”, p.29, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Cinema d'auteur, cinema about people, about emotions. About la difficulté d'être, the difficulty of being, existential problems. That's what the nouvelle vague is. The early '60s was all about that.

  Charlotte Rampling

  People, Cinema, Emotion

  Interview with Zoë Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• Become conscious of what you think during the day. A negative thought will enter you. At first it will be vague, innocuous, but then it will root in your consciousness and soon it will be impossible to eradicate.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Thinking, Roots

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• One of the most extraordinary things about industrial society of the present day is its idiot lack of memory. Tabloids and movies take the place of mental processes and revolts, crimes, despairs pass off in a dribble of vague words and rubber stamp phrases without leaving a scratch on the mind of the driven instalment-paying, subway-packing mass.

  John Dos Passos

  Memories, Leaving, Mind

  John Dos Passos (1988). “John Dos Passos: the major nonfictional prose”

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• To reach beyond what you are you must ignore the rules and fashions of the day. Or perhaps better yet cast them way out in your peripheral vision where you can still see them but only as a vague reference point. This doesn’t mean that all the rules are gone. It might mean that you adopt a far tighter code of conduct to ensure the necessary level of intensity and adventure.

  Peter Croft

  Fashion, Adventure, Mean

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• As for the square at Meknes, where I used to go every day, it's even simpler: I do not see it at all anymore. All that remains is the vague feeling that it was charming, and these five words that are indivisibly bound together: a charming square at Meknes. ... I don't see anything any more: I can search the past in vain, I can only find these scraps of images and I am not sure what they represent, whether they are memories or just fiction.

  Jean-Paul Sartre

  Memories, Past, Squares

  Jean-Paul Sartre, Lloyd Alexander (1964). “Nausea”, p.32, New Directions Publishing

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• Love is hurt with jar and fret;
  Love is made a vague regret.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Life, Hurt, Regret

  Alfred Tennyson Tennyson, Baron, Alfred Lord Tennyson (2014). “Fifty Poems”, p.51, Cambridge University Press

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• Nations are beginning to look to some vague organization, some nebulous course of humanity, to pay their bills and tell them what to do. This is not local self-government. It is not American. It is not the method which has made this country what it is. We can not maintain the western standard of civilization on that theory. If it is supported at all, it will have to be supported on the principle of individual responsibility.

  Calvin Coolidge

  Country, Responsibility, Government

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• It is useless to read Greek in translation; translators can but offer us a vague equivalent.

  Virginia Woolf

  Greek, Useless, Language

  Virginia Woolf, Hermione Lee (2000). “A room of one's own and other essays”

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• Yoga is a science, and not a vague dreamy drifting or imagining. It is an applied science, a systematized collection of laws applied to bring about a definite end. It takes up the laws of psychology, applicable to the unfolding of the whole consciousness of man on every plane, in every world, and applies those rationally in a particular case. This rational application of the laws of unfolding consciousness acts exactly on the same principles that you see applied around you every day in other departments of science.

  Annie Besant

  Success, Yoga, Men

  Annie Besant (2017). “The Nature and Practice of Yoga”, BookRix

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• Solidarity is not a feeling of vague compassion or shallow distress at the misfortunes of so many people, both near and far. On the contrary, it is a firm and persevering determination to commit oneself to the common good; that is to say to the good of all and of each individual, because we are all really responsible for all

  Pope John Paul II

  Determination, Compassion, Dedication

  Pope John Paul II, J. Michael Miller (1998). “The Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortations of John Paul II”, p.425, Our Sunday Visitor Publishing

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• Our "life education" has not necessarily taught us a satisfying way to live. We suffer from a vague sense that there must be something more, some deeper meaning. We must return to kindergarten and start to learn a way of life that is contrary to the way we approached things before-a way of life based on trust of our own inner truth. We can rediscover the child-like innocence and wisdom that knows that anything is possible.

  Shakti Gawain

  Education, Children, Taught Us

  Shakti Gawain (2010). “Reflections in the Light: Daily Thoughts and Affirmations”, p.4, New World Library

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• It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.

  William Butler Yeats

  Philosophy, Firsts, Hinduism

  William Butler Yeats (2010). “The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III: Autobiogra”, p.98, Simon and Schuster

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• I do not want to presuppose anything as known. I see in my explanation in section 1 the definition of the concepts point, straight line and plane, if one adds to these all the axioms of groups i-v as characteristics. If one is looking for other definitions of point, perhaps by means of paraphrase in terms of extensionless, etc., then, of course, I would most decidedly have to oppose such an enterprise. One is then looking for something that can never be found, for there is nothing there, and everything gets lost, becomes confused and vague, and degenerates into a game of hide and seek.

  David Hilbert

  Confused, Mean, Games

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• Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.

  Mao Zedong

  Dream, Regret, Hero

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