Top 100 Quotes About Saul
#1. Photography allows you to learn to look and see. You begin to see things you'd never paid attention to.
Saul Leiter
#2. It's goodbye to reality when love sets in.
Saul Bellow
#3. The role that theater has placed in enhancing consciousness and moving systems ahead. I think of what South African theater meant for the apartheid movement, for example. I think of what music has meant for so many social movements across time.
Saul Williams
#4. The classic statement on polarization comes from Christ: 'He that is not with me is against me.' (Luke 11:23) He allowed no middle ground to the moneychangers in the Temple. One acts decisively only in the conviction that all the angels are on one side and all the devils on the other.
Saul Alinsky
#5. Educating the masses was intended only to improve the relationship between the top and the bottom of society. Not for changing the nature of the relationship.
John Ralston Saul
#6. The attribution of a speaker is in fact a part of the quotation. Some statements simply are better if a certain famous person said them.
Gary Saul Morson
#7. It is sometimes necessary to repeat what all know. All mapmakers should place the Mississippi in the same location and avoid originality.
Saul Bellow
#8. Not that life should end is so terrible in itself, but that it should end with so many disappointments in the essential.
Saul Bellow
#9. It was probably no accident that it was the cripple Hephaestus who made ingenious machines; a normal man didn't have to hoist or jack himself over hindrances by means of cranks, chains and metal parts. Then it was in the line of human advance that Einhorn could do so much.
Saul Bellow
#10. Wordsmiths who serve established power ... castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their aim.
John Ralston Saul
#11. Historians turning their hands to fiction are all the rage. Since Alison Weir led the way in 2006, an ever-growing number of established non-fiction writers - Giles Milton, Simon Sebag Montefiore, Harry Sidebottom, Patrick Bishop, Ian Mortimer and myself included - have written historical novels.
Saul David
#12. Saul took their fear of the Philistines personally. Rejection always takes things personally, becoming defensive, and thus never allows us to see or hear things properly. Remember, the most commons signs of rejection are being defensive and taking things personally.
Anthony Hulsebus
#13. After defending the value of prepared prayers, the author cautions against over-reliance on them. Just as David could not fight in the armor of King Saul, we are called to fight in the way God has equipped us uniquely.
N. T. Wright
#14. Everyone spoke of an information overload, but what there was in fact was a non-information overload.
Richard Saul Wurman
#15. The organization of self, and all self-aligning principles would be those that I promote.
Saul Williams
#16. Well, I need a job. Something that'll leave me the free time I want."
"I like the way you arrange your life. What do you intend to do with this free time?"
"I intend to use it." I didn't like the implication of this. Why should he need his time free and I be questioned?
Saul Bellow
#17. There is nothing glamorous in what I do. I'm a working man. Perhaps I'm luckier than most in that I receive considerable satisfaction from doing useful work which I, and sometimes others, think is good.
Saul Bass
#18. I was fed by the music I listened to as a kid. Hip-hop fed me psychologically, spiritually, politically. I learned from that music.
Saul Williams
#19. One of the characteristics of kitsch is precisely the neutralization of 'extreme situations', particularly death, by turning them into some sentimental idyll.
Saul Friedlander
#20. The first Romanov ruler was just 16 when he was crowned Tsar Michael I in Moscow in 1613, thus ending the 'Time of Troubles' sparked by Ivan the Terrible's death.
Saul David
#21. The Age of Reason has turned out to be the Age of Structure; a time when, in the absence of purpose, the drive for power as a value in itself has become the principal indicator of social approval. And the winning of power has become the measure of social merit.
John Ralston Saul
#22. I was one of those kids who always thought that we should know how the world works around us.
Saul Perlmutter
#23. The main reason for rewriting is not to achieve a smooth surface, but to discover the inner truth of your characters.
Saul Bellow
#24. Ever since World War I, superior force is no longer measured in terms of men or horses, but in the means to wreak destruction.
Saul David
#25. One thought-murder a day keeps the psychiatrist away.
Saul Bellow
#26. Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction.
Richard Saul Wurman
#27. The only people who become disillusioned are people who have illusions.
Saul Alinsky
#28. Legislation won't necessarily start a riot. But the right song can make someone pick up a chair.
Saul Williams
#29. I was raised to be kind. My parents were underdogs. Immigrant Jews. I spoke with an accent. I didn't speak English even - I spoke French and Yiddish mostly. I was picked on.
Saul Rubinek
#30. This is America, and you have the right to remain sick. If you choose to treat yourself and your family, that is within your rights, and is necessarily your sole decision based on what you know to be best.
Andrew Saul
#31. I leave these speculations to others. It's quite possible that my work represents a search for beauty in the most prosaic and ordinary places. One doesn't have to be in some faraway dreamland in order to find beauty.
Saul Leiter
#32. Art is order, made out of the chaos of life.
Saul Bellow
#33. No, the truth must be something we understand at once, without an introduction or explanation, but so common and familiar that we don't always realize it's around us.
Saul Bellow
#34. Henry Kissinger is perhaps the best-known American statesman of the 20th century.
Saul David
#35. Management cannot solve problems. Nor can it stir creativity of any sort. It can only manage what it is given. If asked to do more, it will deform whatever is put into its hands.
John Ralston Saul
#36. Society is what beats me. Alone I can be pretty good, but let me go among people and there's the devil to pay.
Saul Bellow
#38. Dogma, Whatever Form It Takes, Is The Ultimate Enemy Of Human Freedom.
Saul Alinsky
#39. It is undoubtedly easier to believe in absolutes, follow blindly, mouth received wisdom. But that is self-betrayal.
John Ralston Saul
#40. You have to fight for your life. That's the chief condition on which you hold it.
Saul Bellow
#41. The hour that burst the spirit's sleep...
Saul Bellow
#42. The second rule is: Never go outside the experience of your people. When an action is outside the experience of the people, the result is confusion, fear, and retreat.
Saul Alinsky
#43. They scooped out our insides, Saul. We're not responsible for that. We're not responsible for what happened to us. None of us are. Fred said. But our healing
that's up to us. That's what saved me. Knowing it was my game.
Richard Wagamese
#44. Death is going to take the boundaries away from us, that we should no more be persons. That's what death is about. When that is what life also wants to be about, how can you feel except rebellious?
Saul Bellow
#45. There is something funny about the human condition, and civilized intelligence makes fun of its own ideas.
Saul Bellow
#46. 'The Prince' was written by Machiavelli for the Haves on how to hold power. 'Rules for Radicals' is written for the Have-Nots on how to take it away.
Saul Alinsky
#47. All human accomplishment has this same origin, identically. Imagination is a force of nature. Is this not enough to make a person full of ecstasy? Imagination, imagination, imagination! It converts to actual. It sustains, it alters, it redeems!
Saul Bellow
#48. To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.
Saul Bellow
#49. Live or die, but don't poison everything.
Saul Bellow
#50. Nobody should be a mystery intentionally. Unintentionally is mysterious enough.
Saul Bellow
#51. Whenever governments adopt a moral tone - as opposed to an ethical one - you know something is wrong.
John Ralston Saul
#52. It's not up to me ... to make the world consistent.
Saul Bellow
#53. The life of every citizen is becoming a business. This, it seems to me, is one of the worst interpretations of the meaning of human life history has ever seen. Man's life is not a business.
Saul Bellow
#54. Who me? I play scales. The scales of
dead fish of oil-slicked seas. My sister
blows wind through the hollows of fallen
trees. And we are the echoes of eternity.
Maybe you've heard of us.
We do rebirths, revolts, and resurrections.
Saul Williams
#55. Unfortunately, I haven't thought sufficiently about art. What I never realized - and it's really stupid - is the art world is the art world because all these thousands of famous and not-famous artists do things, over centuries. This hadn't occurred to me.
Peter Saul
#57. Keep out of this, please, will you, Mildred? A child isn't a toy." "Oh," she said, "they grow up. Time does it more than fathers and mothers. The parents take too much credit.
Saul Bellow
#58. And what about all the good I have in my heart - does it mean anything?
Saul Bellow
#59. Democracy is alive, and like any other living thing it either flourishes and grows or withers and dies. There is no in-between. It is freedom and life or dictatorship and death.
Saul Alinsky
#60. The citizen's job is to be rude - to pierce the comfort of professional intercourse by boorish expressions of doubt.
John Ralston Saul
#61. People forget how sensational the things are that they do. They don't see it on themselves. It blends into the background of their daily life.
Saul Bellow
#62. Anxiety destroys scale, and suffering makes us lose perspective.
Saul Bellow
#63. Bankers - pillars of society who are going to hell if there is a God and He has been accurately quoted.
John Ralston Saul
#64. Political realists see the world as it is: an arena of power politics moved primarily by perceived immediate self-interests, where morality is rhetorical rationale for expedient action and self-interest.
Saul D. Alinsky
#65. But enough of that
here I am. Hineni! How marvelously beautiful it is today. He stopped in the overgrown yard, shut his eyes in the sun, against flashes of crimson, and drew in the odors of catalpa-bells, soil, honeysuckle, wild onions, and herbs.
Saul Bellow
#66. You might expect gravity would slow it down, but it's just expanding faster and faster.
Saul Perlmutter
#67. I dance for no reason, for reasons you can't dance,
Call me an activist of intellectualized circumstance
You can't learn my steps until you unlearn your thoughts Spirit, soul, can't be store-bought.
Saul Williams
#68. We can take more time and interest, and give more attention to our personal health than a hired professional can. We have learned to go get medical help, not to give it. We have learned to relay our body's needs to another, not to provide them ourselves.
Andrew Saul
#69. Mimi didn't care about secrecy. She led a proclaimed life, and once she got talking she held back nothing.
Saul Bellow
#70. He yelled, Charlie, you know where I am, don't you? All right, Charlie, this isn't literature. This is life.
Saul Bellow
#71. Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara ... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
Saul Alinsky
#73. I admired a tremendous number of photographers, but for some reason I arrived at a point of view of my own.
Saul Leiter
#74. I spend my time sitting in train stations, parks, parking lots, cafes, just looking at people - eavesdropping, basically. I'm vulnerable to all of it.
Saul Williams
#75. The greatest enemy of individual freedom is the individual himself.
Saul D. Alinsky
#76. We take foreigners to be incomplete Americans
convinced that we must help and hasten their evolution.
Saul Bellow
#77. What it would be like to simply disappear into the blackness, to float forever in silence and nothingness.
John Saul
#78. You can always tell you're in deep trouble when people start thinking money's real.
John Ralston Saul
#79. Doctors frequently get it wrong. One out of five patients today is in the hospital because incorrect treatment by a physician put him or her there.
Andrew Saul
#80. But maybe time was invented so that misery might have an end. So that it shouldn't last forever? There may be something in this. And bliss, just the opposite, is eternal? There is no time in bliss. All the clocks were thrown out of heaven.
Saul Bellow
#81. It is a world not of angels but of angles, where men speak of moral principles but act on power principles; a world where we are always moral and our enemies always immoral;
Saul D. Alinsky
#82. You regard yourself as tolerant, and in that one adjective you most fittingly describe yourself. You really don't like people you tolerate them. You are very tolerant, MR. BUT.
Saul D. Alinsky
#83. Punk rock meditation, that's what keeps it going. That's how I let go, you know. It's exactly what I do, I blast it and run around crazy banging my head on the wall.
Saul Williams
#84. I like Hemingway and I like a lot Jewish writers (such as) Saul Bellow.
Wesley Clark
#85. The despair is there; now it's up to us to go in and rub raw the sores of discontent, galvanize them for radical social change.
Saul Alinsky
#86. A human soul devoid of longing was a soul deformed, deprived of its highest good, sick unto death.
Saul Bellow
#87. It's no small matter to become rich and famous by saying exactly what you think - to say it in your own words, without compromise.
Saul Bellow
#88. But Mimi- her tenderness didn't have an easy visibility. You wondered what it would be, and after what terrible manifestations it would appear.
Saul Bellow
#89. Questions are fiction, and answers are anything from more fiction to science-fiction.
Saul Steinberg
#90. He had come into a view of mutability, and I too could see that one is only ostensibly born to remain in specified limits.
Saul Bellow
#91. If Saul could have had you for his David, the evil spirit would have been exorcised without the aid of the harp.
Charlotte Bronte
#92. Venereal: From Venus, the goddess of love, this word refers to the reality of desire. With the rise of Protestantism and science, the word disease was tacked on in a revealing combination of categorization and moralizing. Which disease? The disease of love.
John Ralston Saul
#93. In the depths of a man's being there was something that responded with a quack to such perfume. Quack!
Saul Bellow
#94. Yes, these business people have great energy. There's a question as to what's burned to produce it and what things we can and can't burn.
Saul Bellow
#95. It was all there. Only he was not through with love and hate elsewhere.
Saul Bellow
#96. We leave our home," she pointed upwards, "and come here. When we're done down here in the swamp of humanity, whatever you want to call it, we go home. To our real home. We all do. No choice. Whether you believe it or not.
Jonas Saul
#97. No realistic, sane person goes around Chicago without protection.
Saul Bellow
#98. Humor is essential to a successful tactician, for the most potent weapons known to mankind are satire and ridicule.
Saul Alinsky
#99. Even a moderniser like Alexander II - who emancipated the serfs in 1861 - had no intention of devolving real power.
Saul David
#100. Shall I run back into the desert ... and stay there until the devil has passed out of me and I am fit to meet human kind again without driving it to despair at the first look? I haven't had enough desert yet.
Saul Bellow
