Focusing On The Bigger Quotes & Sayings

I said that the question about death, and more precisely, the confusion about death, lies at the very heart of human understanding, and in the final analysis, the relation of man to life, that which we call his worldview, is ultimately determined by his relationship to death.
All of civilization seems to be permeated with a passionate obsession to stifle this fear of death and the sense of the meaninglessness of life that oozes out of it like a slow-dripping poison. What is this intense conflict with religion, if nothing other than a mindless attempt to root out of human consciousness the memory and concern with death and consequently the question: why do I live in this brief and fragile life? — Alexander Schmemann

We do not have time to play at "oppositions" at "conferences." We will keep our political opponents ... whether open or disguised as "nonparty," in prison. — Vladimir Lenin

At the moment, I'm focusing on these kind of "small" films - maybe after that, I will make bigger films in English. — Malgorzata Szumowska

I should fear the infinite power and inflexible justice of the almighty mortal hardly as yet apotheosized, so wholly masculine, with no sister Juno, no Apollo, no Venus, nor Minerva, to intercede for me, thumoi phileousa te, kedomene te. — Henry David Thoreau

Oh, in the entire path of love, the steps that lead up to sex are the most slippery, one false step and it could make man slip out of woman's favor, forever. — BS Murthy

An atheist doesn't have to be someone who thinks he has a proof that there can't be a god. He only has to be someone who believes that the evidence on the God question is at a similar level to the evidence on the werewolf question. — John McCarthy

We ought not to schismatize on either men or measures. Principles alone can justify that. — Thomas Jefferson

I've become increasingly agoraphobic. — Molly Crabapple

How dare she not give in to his "vulnerability." There was only so much rejection he could take. — Yawatta Hosby

Meditation is not thinking about the image of a person of the past. It is more about focusing and channelizing the power of your emotions and imagination for fulfilling a bigger dream - the dream that will bring more life, energy peace, happiness and meaning to you and the society. — Amit Ray