Social Visions Quotes

#1. Look! Nature is overflowing with the grandeur of God!

John Muir

#2. A willing spirit is a divine-being.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#3. At the most embryonic state, the tendency toward the fullness of actualization is already latent.

Francois Jullien

#4. I wouldn't go so far as to say I've got a plan. But I've got an idea. It's a very useful thing sometimes, an idea. - Superintendent Battle

Agatha Christie

#5. The first thing a man will do for his ideals is lie.

Joseph Schumpeter

#6. Being able to understand it was of no great importance. We see no visions because we live in an age in which they are not permitted; but if we accepted the idea of them, who's to say what we wouldn't see? Marriage is no longer a mystical union but a social contract.

Deirdre Madden

#7. I don't work with a stylist, I don't work with a glam squad to get me together for the red carpet, I really enjoy the time it takes to do it myself, to choose my clothes and do my own makeup and my own hair.

Dita Von Teese

#8. We live in a world of diverse cultures, and we know very little about social engineering and how to 'build nations.' And when we cannot be sure how to improve the world, hubristic visions pose a grave danger.

Joseph Nye

#9. The Arab spring that began in 2010 was driven by the educated youth who were connected to the outside world. They had visions of liberal politics derived from social networks. They used innovative means to spread awareness and to network among activists.

Wadah Khanfar

#10. Apart from thought, there is no independent entity called "world." Just as the spider emits the thread (of the web) out of itself and then withdraws it, likewise, the mind projects the world out of itself and then withdraws it back into itself.

Ramana Maharshi

#11. My mother always says: "You know better, so you'll be punished. Your friends don't know better, so they won't be punished. They can go snatch chains and they'll be fine. But if you snatch chains, you'll end up in jail because you know better."

Chris Rock

#12. Can I say I'm a reformed bad boy without sounding like a tool?

R.S. Grey

#13. Symbology and ritual, at best, can only mimic the Truth ... and cannot, and never has had, any mastery over the manifestations of Divinity.

Gabriel Brunsdon

#14. Suspicion is the cancer of friendship.

Petrarch

#15. When I direct I try to keep it a unique design of my own. Naturally you're influenced.

Anthony Hopkins

#16. She leaned forward and whispered sensuously in his ear, 'I am Lilith and you are mine now - forever.

Alan Kinross

#17. Health food would seem healthier if the people that sold it looked less unhealthy.

Dov Davidoff

#18. In a world where you can't open your eyes, isn't a blindfold all you could ever hope for?

Josh Malerman

#19. Throughout the ages, Christians have adapted John of Patmos's visions to changing times, reading their own social, political and religious conflicts into the cosmic war he so powerfully evokes. Yet his Book of Revelation appeals not only to fear and desires for vengeance but also to hope.

Elaine Pagels