Revivification Quotes & Sayings

I just want to be me. Cate. Why isn't that ever enough? — Jessica Spotswood

After reading the Qur'an, I realized that I couldn't possibly endorse Islam as a religion, as a philosophy, as a moral standard, as an ethical code, or even as useful fiction. I determined that these philosophies and this image of Allah could only come from an extremely warped and disturbed person who suffered from an aggregation of the most severe and profound human weaknesses. — Susan Crimp

Truth, in the broadest sense, means being attuned with the real. To be authentically in touch with the true, and the good and the beautiful. Yes? — Ken Wilber

Noncooks think it's silly to invest two hours' work in two minutes' enjoyment; but if cooking is evanescent, so is the ballet. — Julia Child

I wasn't exactly known for self-confidence, but I could taste the cake in my mind. Strong. Earthy. Fragrant. I remembered the nose-prickling aroma of cinnamon when it comes in fragile curls, and the startling power of crushed cloves. — Ruth Reichl

At the resurrection, there will be the return of spirits to their bodies, the revivification of the bodies, and the remaking of the bodies. — Said Nursi

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women. — Nancy Pelosi

With improvisation, I just do it. It might be a total failure but then you just throw the dice again. — Christian Marclay

By night only crazy things
like the full moon and the whippoorwill

and us, are busy. — Charles Olson

I want to make a film that is commercially successful because that means that the larger cinema-going audience around the world like the movie, which is my goal. That's my job, to make films that people respond to. — Neill Blomkamp

It's a relief now to be able to stand next to my godfather and finally feel like I've accomplished something in the game of baseball. — Barry Bonds

The greatest honor that can be paid to the work of art, on its pedestal of ritual display, is to describe it with sensory completeness. We need a science of description. Criticism is ceremonial revivification. — Camille Paglia

Beyond infrastructure, the conservative sees the proper role of government as providing not European-style universal entitlements but a firm safety net, meaning Julia-like treatment for those who really cannot make it on their own--those too young or too old, too mentally or physically impaired, to provide for themselves.
Limited government so conceived has two indispensable advantages. It avoids inexorable European-style national insolvency. And it avoids breeding debilitating individual dependency. It encourages and celebrates character, independence, energy, hard work as the foundations of a free society and a thriving economy--precisely the virtues Obama discounts and devalues in his accounting of the wealth of nations. — Charles Krauthammer

Northern Ireland is the world's best kept secret, both in the character of its people and its scenery. — Liam Neeson

I love the band Haim. I would love to do something with them. — Tom Odell

While there is tea, there is hope. — Arthur Wing Pinero

Mandela's commitment to democracy was ratified not only by his election, but by his willingness to step down from power — Barack Obama