The Creation Quotes

#1. When Tim Berners-Lee invented the computer code that led to the creation of the World Wide Web in 1990, he did not try to patent or charge fees for the use of his technology.

Rebecca MacKinnon

#2. This republic represents the greatest basis for that universal socialist order, the creation of which is at the present time the historic task of the International Proletariat.

Karl Liebknecht

#3. There is always shame in the creation of an object for the public gaze.

Rachel Cusk

#4. Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one; it was instead the creation of a third entity whose sole purpose was to sooth and inspire the two individuals.

Christian Cantrell

#5. In Deism our reason and our belief become happily united. The wonderful structure of the universe, and everything we behold in the system of the creation, prove to us, far better than books can do, the existence of a God, and at the same time proclaim His attributes.

Thomas Paine

#6. Art isn't about where it ends up. It's about the creation.

Lauren Dane

#7. Whoever doesn't worship God by choice will worship the creation by necessity.

Habib Umar Bin Hafiz

#8. The creation of my cosmetics experience has been years in the making.

Tyra Banks

#9. I choose to believe God had a more direct involvement in the creation of my heart and consciousness than in the creation of any book, no matter how thick or old it may be.

P.S. Baber

#10. Life isn't about the destiny or destination. It is a journey to see and enjoy the creation.

Debasish Mridha

#11. There is something explainable about what man has accomplished in God's creation, while the creation itself remains a mystery.

Robert E. Webber

#12. The development of a rational view of the nature of catalysis was thus absolutely dependent on the creation of the concept of the rate of chemical reaction.

Wilhelm, Ostwald

#13. In this sense socialism means the abolition of private enterprise, of private ownership of the means of production, and the creation of a system of "planned economy" in which the entrepreneur working for profit is replaced by a central planning body.

Friedrich Hayek

#14. After trying out a number of ways to reduce inequalities and failing, I was gradually forced to conclude that the decisive factors were the people, their natural abilities, education and training. Knowledge and the possession of technology were vital for the creation of wealth.

Lee Kuan Yew

#15. The creation of the United States of America is the central event of the past four hundred years.

Walter A. McDougall

#16. The malady of civilized man is his knowledge of death. The good artist, like the wise man, addresses himself to life and invests with his private vision the deeds and thoughts of men. The creation of a work of art, like an act of love, is our one small yes at the center of a vast no.

Gore Vidal

#17. The creation of the UCB Theatre is by far my proudest professional accomplishment.

Amy Poehler

#18. A wedding is a celebration of marriage, of an institution ordained by God at the creation of man, to be entered into with solemnity as well as with joy.

Elisabeth Elliot

#19. This whole universe, with all its vastness, grandeur and beauty, is nothing but sheer imagination. In spite of so many discoveries, researches and scientific knowledge, the creation remains a great unsolved riddle.

Meher Baba

#20. We can contemplate the creation of new kinds of vital texts: curate sociology rather than just write it

Les Back

#21. After World War II, American leaders were, in Dean Acheson's words, 'present at the creation' of a global order. Now at the end of the cold war, we desperately need that same vision, that leadership, that creativity to be applied to the governance of the global marketplace.

John J. Sweeney

#22. I forget how many thousand eggs go wrong for one codfish that gets hatched. But as Berkeley said long ago, it is idle to censure the creation as wasteful if you believe in a creator who has unlimited stuff to play with.

Frederick Pollock

#23. The creation of the world did not occur at the beginning of time, it occurs every day.

Marcel Proust

#24. Writing isn't about the process. It is about creating. The joy comes not from the process but from the creation.

Harlan Coben

#25. Bach's music is the only argument proving the creation of the Universe cannot be regarded a complete failure.

Emil Cioran

#26. The clash between capital and labour, between those seeking to maximise profit and those with only their toil to sell, was the driving force for the creation of the trade unions in the 19th century.

David Blunkett

#27. The man, the writer, the instrument of the creation will die, but his creation does not die.

Luigi Pirandello

#28. This fact immediately suggested a singular event - that at some time in the distant past the universe began expanding from an extremely small size. To many people this inference was loaded with overtones of a supernatural event - the creation, the beginning of the universe.

Michael Behe

#29. We can't legislate the creation of jobs, but we can legislate things that will allow jobs to be created.

Mike Lee

#30. I prefer to think of the creation or construction of happiness, because research shows that it's in our power to fashion it for ourselves.

Sonja Lyubomirsky

#31. Understand their hatred is beyond human comprehension. They abhor the Creator and so also the creation. Whatever brings joy, whatever brings peace, whatever redeems the dark deed or relieves the terrors of the night and their enemies.

Rick Yancey

#32. Others devoted to life will surely find that between the creation of life and the destruction of the destroyers there is no difference but a necessary, indispensable connection; that nothing good can be created that does not of its very nature push forward the destruction of the destroyers.

Ayi Kwei Armah

#33. The fact is, that with the creation of the Jewish state in 1948, hundreds of thousands of Jews fled Arab countries, almost all of whom left behind all their property for which compensation was never paid.

Meir Kahane

#34. The European Union Treaty ... within a few years will lead to the creation of what the founding fathers of modern Europe dreamed of after the war, the United States of Europe.

Helmut Kohl

#35. But really important, perhaps most important is the craft; how you make your record, the creation of these sonic worlds you want your listener to hear.

Duncan Sheik

#36. The aim of literature ... is the creation of a strange object covered with fur which breaks your heart.

Donald Barthelme

#37. Fortunately, the war has brought with it not alone a stark realization of what another war would mean to the world, but as well the creation of an international agency through which the nations of the world can, if they so desire, make peace a living reality.

Cordell Hull

#38. We must strike down the insidious lie that a book is the creation of an individual soul labouring in isolation. We must strike it down because it threatens the overall quality and breadth of American literature.

John Green

#39. The Bible is the only credible guide either as to the real relationship between man and the earth and the great Creator of both or concerning the purpose of the creation of both.

Joseph Franklin Rutherford

#40. I take pride in the creation of my wealth, in its existence and in the uses to which it has been and is being put.

J. Paul Getty

#41. You a low down dog is what's wrong. It's time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need.

Alice Walker

#42. From the tiniest grain of sand to the brain of an Einstein, all existence, animate and inanimate, is the product of the same ninety-two elements that are themselves the harvest of the energy of the creation. At every turn an underlying commonality, a unity, emerges from within the diversity.

Gerald Schroeder

#43. In the long term, there are many factors that will help the luxury market, the creation of new wealth and the Asian tourist boom

Arthur Penrhyn Stanley

#44. When a certain shameless fellow mockingly asked a pious old man what God had done before the creation of the world the latter aptly countered that he had been building hell for the curious.

John Calvin

#45. The true goal of human activity was the creation of a world-wide community of awakened and intelligently creative persons, related by mutual insight and respect, and by the common task of fulfilling the potentiality of the human spirit on earth.

Olaf Stapledon

#46. Physical experience is the translation of phenomena into symbolic language, and the law is the creation of the wind or a symbol.

Fulton J. Sheen

#47. Landscape is the creation of the one God - his sensuous image and revelation, through the investigation of which, by science or its representation by art, men's hearts are lifted toward him.

James Jackson Jarves

#48. Between the conception and the creation, between the emotion and the response, Falls the shadow.

T. S. Eliot

#49. Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.

Susan Sontag

#50. By loving and leaving all that oil has done for us ... we are able to then begin the creation of a world which is more resilient, more nourishing, and in which we find ourselves fitter, more skilled and more connected to each other.

Rob Hopkins

#51. I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

Albert Einstein

#52. We are here to witness the creation and to abet it.

Annie Dillard

#53. The commercial music world which I had been a part of for so many years lost its sparkle. My focus became the creation of music which would slow down the brainwaves, so inducing a state similar to when we mediate.

John R. Levine

#54. We participate in the creation of the world by decreating ourselves.

Anne Carson

#55. The building of a just society means overcoming every obstacle to the creation of authentic peace.

Gustavo Gutierrez

#56. Is not the tremendous strength in men of the impulse to creative work in every field precisely due to their feeling of playing a relatively small part in the creation of living beings, which constantly impels them to an overcompensation in achievement?

Karen Horney

#57. The need is not for the creation of new analytical techniques specially designed for the negotiation process, but rather for the creative use of analytical thinking that exploits existing techniques.

Howard Raiffa

#58. There is no need to exaggerate the part played in the creation of the Bolshevism and in the actual bringing about of the Russian Revolution by these international and for the most part atheistical Jews

Winston Churchill

#59. Giving up the illusion that you can predict the future is a very liberating moment. All you can do is give yourself the capacity to respond ... the creation of that capacity is the purpose of strategy.

John Browne, Baron Browne Of Madingley

#60. I want to spend my time between the creation of ideas and the creation of things.

Theaster Gates

#61. Truth must necessarily be stranger than fiction; for fiction is the creation of the human mind and therefore congenial to it.

G.K. Chesterton

#62. To me that's part of my working day, and I would never refuse a job where I'm under several hours of makeup, because as an actor, I enjoy performing. It's about the creation of the character and the art to me, not about being comfortable and how long it all takes.

Warwick Davis

#63. Life is essentially an endless series of problems. The solution to one problem is merely the creation of another.

Mark Manson

#64. We must consider bringing forward legislation that will facilitate the creation and implementation of businesses in Haiti. Overall, we must better position the country to compete for new market opportunities.

Laurent Lamothe

#65. How can the creation challenge and control the Creator? Oh mortal man, know that there is an immortal God with an immortal power!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#66. The practice of S/M is the creation of pleasure ... And that's why S/M is really a subculture. It's a process of invention. S/M isthe use of a strategic relationship as a source of pleasure.

Michel Foucault

#67. Art does not in fact prove anything. What it does do is record one of those brief times, such as we each have and then each forget, when we are allowed to understand that the Creation is whole.

Robert Adams

#68. As an actor, you're never really in control of the product. I think the goal is to create what you want. And if you can get as close as you can get to the creation of something, it starts with development.

Scott Cohen

#69. Each photograph is read as the private appearance of its referent: the age of Photography corresponds precisely to the explosion of the private into the public, or rather into the creation of a new social value, which is the publicity of the private: the private is consumes as such, publicly.

Roland Barthes

#70. Loud laughter is the mirth of the mob, who are only pleased with silly things; for true Wit or good Sense never excited a laugh since the creation of the world. A man of parts and fashion is therefore often seen to smile, but never heard to laugh.

Lord Chesterfield

#71. Al Qaeda's central political objective is the creation of an Islamic republic, not the progressive realignment of American foreign policy.

Simon Cottee

#72. The atheists are for the most part imprudent and misguided scholars who reason badly who, not being able to understand the Creation, the origin of evil, and other difficulties, have recourse to the hypothesis the eternity of things and of inevitability.

Voltaire

#73. But please remember, that in 1991 in the Seym [lower chamber of polish parliament] I didn't demand the abolishment of Special Economic Zones. I demanded the creation of a single Special Economic Zone - which would encompass the whole country!

Janusz Korwin-Mikke

#74. I've always thought that the stereotype of the dirty old man is really the creation of a dirty young man who wants the field to himself.

Hugh Downs

#75. A very great Iliad ... concerns the creation of a nation.

Raymond Queneau

#76. Our vocation is not simply to be, but to work together with God in the creation of our own life, our own identity, our own destiny ... To work out our identity in God.

Thomas Merton

#77. The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

Alfred North Whitehead

#78. As a necessary prerequisite to the creation of new forms of expression one might, I suppose, argue that current sensibilities respond uniquely to the notion of exhaustion as exhaustion, although that does de facto seem rather limiting.

Brian Ferneyhough

#79. When I touched her body,
I believed she was God.
In the curves of her form
I found the birth of Man,
the creation of the world,
and the origin of all life.

Roman Payne

#80. The creation of the world is not only a process which moves from God to humanity. God demands newness from humanity; God awaits the works of human freedom.

Nikolai Berdyaev

#81. The Bible contains the revelation of the will of God. It contains the history of the creation of the world, and of mankind.

John Quincy Adams

#82. I really want to see everything. If it's around me and it's part of my show, I need to be a part of all of it. From the creation of the music, to the surface of the floor, to everyone's hairstyle, to the details with the buttons and the bows and the snaps and the zippers. All of those things!

Madonna Ciccone

#83. The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis. In 'The Boy at the End of the World,' what's at stake is the survival of the human species.

Greg Van Eekhout

#84. The creation of art requires descent into the dark.

Doug Dorst

#85. Every beauty
whether of sight, sound, or taste
has a dimension of the metaphysical. Beauty ... moves us so powerfully by making us present at the creation of a world, bringing us into existence.

Patricia Storace

#86. I'm certainly not into money and prestige. For me there is simply nothing more exciting than people involved in the creation of great products. That is what drives me.

Aaron Levie

#87. A studio is like a meditation room where music is created. And a live performance is the place where the creation of the studio is taken ahead. I love both.

Shreya Ghoshal

#88. The thing I don't understand is why so often one hears discussion of the fruits of human labor as if it's all the creation of some alien race.

Chris Ware

#89. The God of the theologians is the creation of their empty heads.

Benito Mussolini

#90. A person does not show his actions to the creation except due to his ignorance of the Greatness of the Creator.

Ibn Rajab

#91. During the years following his capital was doubled, owing to the creation of a new commerce, which might be called The Coolie trade of the New World.

Jules Verne

#92. Why did men drink wine and women water? Why was one sex so prosperous and the other so poor? What effect has poverty on fiction? What conditions are necessary for the creation of works of art?

Virginia Woolf

#93. God made the rose out of what was left of woman at the creation. The great difference is, we feel the rose's thorns when we gather it; and the other's when we have had it for some time.

Walter Savage Landor

#94. Abstract art is not the creation of another reality but the true vision of reality.

Piet Mondrian

#95. Evolution in nature is not inconsistent with the notion of creation, because evolution requires the creation of beings that evolve.

Pope Francis

#96. It is quite exciting, incidentally, to know that the Genesis account of the creation of mankind through its first parentage in Adam and Eve bears the marks of derivation from the primary Egyptian symbolic depiction.

Alvin Boyd Kuhn

#97. He and the Cat looked at each other across that impassable barrier of silence which had been set between man and beast from the creation of the world.

Mary E. Wilkins Freeman

#98. Liberation from every form of exploitation, the possibility of a more human and dignified life, the creation of a new humankind - all pass through this struggle.

Gustavo Gutierrez

#99. The Wisdom of God Manifested in the Works of the Creation.

John Ray

#100. The need for the creation of collective art and ritual on a nonclerical basis is at least as important as literacy and higher education.

Erich Fromm