Sublimate Quotes

#1. I don't have any dark desires. And I think most people don't. A few have dark desires and don't sublimate them.

Ruth Rendell

#2. If you can't sublimate your fear of mortality into sex with your best friend, what's it there for?

Justin Taylor

#3. No longer do we accept the 'sublimation model' according to which 'the function of art is to sublimate or transform experience, raising it from ordinary to extraordinary, from commonplace to unique, from low to high'.

Rosalind E. Krauss

#4. You wanted to sublimate a piece of natural human folly into a horror and then exorcise it with truth and i it was to isolate her out of the loud world so that it would have to flee us of necessity and then the sound of it would be as though it had never been

William Faulkner

#5. Power is no more than a part, no more than the tip of the iceberg of limitless profundity and sublimate of Karate.

Mas Oyama

#6. If you set out a cup of warm water on Mars, it'll try to boil, freeze, and sublimate, practically all at once. Water on Mars seems to want to be in any state except liquid.

Randall Munroe

#7. Maybe true love isn't out there for me, but I can sublimate my loneliness with the notion that true love is out there for someone.

Roxane Gay

#8. I sublimate different parts of my personality through my characters. Which is worrying, as some of them can be a bit nasty. I'm pleased the stuff on the page isn't inside me any more.

Joanne Harris

#9. Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.

Salvador Dali

#10. Well, we're all a little hostile every now and then, some of us are able to sublimate, others of us can't adjust. You know how it is ...

Stan Freberg

#11. I have always tried to sublimate the body and to make people dream.

Thierry Mugler

#12. Being Flavia de Luce was like being a sublimate: like the black crystal residue that is left on the cold glass of a test tube by the violet fumes of iodine.

Alan Bradley

#13. Yes, there are times when I get extremely depressed and how I sublimate those feelings is through music.

Peter Steele

#14. I was only ever part of 'Lost' - a very small part of an extremely talented writers' room, where as a writer, it's sort of your job to sublimate your ego and work in the service of the show and the show's voice.

Brian K. Vaughan

#15. It is above all man's social position that decides whether he will sublimate his sadism as a butcher, surgeon, or policeman.

Wilhelm Reich

#16. If you spend any time in Washington you'll find nerds. What happens is most of them sublimate their fixations with comics, or baseball cards, or 1960s British comedies to policy minutiae and political arcana. But, like Christians in ancient Rome, you can still spot them if you know the signals.

Jonah Goldberg

#17. Those who don't have a wife should sublimate their sexual energies with outdoor sports or long walks.

Samael Aun Weor

#18. Nitre, vitriol, cinnabar, alum, salt ammoniac, sublimated mercury, rock salt, alcali salt, common salt, rock alum, alum schist, arsenic, sublimate, realgar, tartar, orpiment, verdegris.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#19. To sublime: to pass directly from the solid to the vapor state.
To sublimate: to divert the expression of an instinctual desire or impulse from its primitive form to one that is considered more socially or culturally acceptable.
Sublime: of outstanding spiritual, intellectual, or moral worth.

Rachel Klein

#20. I'd heard of really bad things Klan folks did to Negroes. Mean, hateful, deadly things. I didn't know they were hateful toward white folks too.

Clare Vanderpool

#21. I am pained to listen that my daughters, grand daughters and great grand daughters are no longer safe.

Fauja Singh

#22. We expect our leaders to be godlike. But I feel that when people try to sanctify leadership, it puts it out of the realm of regular people. And that's where the greatest leaders come from - from the people.

Katori Hall

#23. Then give me grace to rise and follow Thee up from this misty lowland where I have wandered so long. In Jesus' Name, Amen.

A.W. Tozer

#24. I was jumping rope. Everything was fine. And then suddenly everything seemed so futile.

Charles M. Schulz

#25. To be a good Zen Buddhist it is not enough to follow the teaching of its founder; we have to experience the Buddha's experience.

D.T. Suzuki

#26. The role of the judge is simply to decide cases.

Byron White

#27. It is what a man thinks of himself that really determines his fate.

Henry David Thoreau

#28. Incarceration didn't change me. In many ways, incarceration galvanized me. The totality of the experience helped me.

Roger Avary

#29. Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

Yuri Lotman

#30. Our world has grown weary of greed, exploitation and division, of the tedium of false idols and piecemeal responses, and the pain of false promises.

Pope Benedict XVI

#31. One of the reasons that millionaires are economically successful is that they think differently.

Thomas J. Stanley