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“Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in a very powerful state of mind, then you'll see eternity.”

Ifs Mind Different Sometimes States Wisdom Powerful Buddhism Draws Eternity State Of Mind Very Powerful Different Directions

Author:Frederick Lenz

“Remember it is the heart and not the body, which strives to draw near to God. By heart I do not mean the flesh perceived by the senses, but that secret thing which is sometimes expressed by spirit, and sometimes by soul.”

Heart Mean Soul Sometimes Body Remember Spirit Spirituality Secret Draws Strive Flesh Senses Strife

Author:Al-Ghazali

“If someone knows from experience that daily Communion increases fervor without lessening reverence, then let him go every day. But if someone finds that reverence is lessened and devotion not much increased, then let him sometimes abstain, so as to draw near afterwards with better dispositions.”

Ifs Knows Sometimes Christian Holy Draws Increase Saint Devotion Reverence Communion Disposition Eucharist Fervor Holy Communion Let Him Go Holy Eucharist

Author:Thomas Aquinas

“I do get the sense sometimes that if I draw things too nice, maybe I won't be indie-rock enough anymore.”

Ifs Sometimes Enough Nice Rocks Draws Too Nice Indie Rock

Author:Bryan Lee O'Malley

“There are many ways to draw beautifully. It's important to let the drawing be an investigation and sometimes, in order to investigate, you need to go off the path.”

Way Needs Important Sometimes Order Path Draws Drawing Investigation

Author:Jacob Collins

“One sometimes gets the impression that the mere words ' Socialism ' and ' Communism ' draw towards them with magnetic force every fruit-juice drinker, nudist, sandal-wearer, sex-maniac, Quaker, 'Nature Cure' quack, pacifist, and feminist in England.”

Source: Orwell's England: the Road to Wigan Pier in the context of essays, reviews, letters and poems selected from the Complete works of George Orwell

“I guess Twitter is the first thing that has been attractive to me as social media. I never felt the least draw to Facebook or MySpace. I've been involved anonymously in some tiny listservs, mainly in my ceaseless quest for random novelty, and sometimes while doing something that more closely resembles research.”

Firsts Has Beens Sometimes Social Felt Media Involved Draws Research Social Media Tiny Attractive Quests Novelty

Author:William Gibson

“Grace in women has more effect than beauty. We sometimes see a certain fine self-possession, an habitual voluptuousness of character, which reposes on its own sensations and derives pleasure from all around it, that is more irresistible than any other attraction. There is an air of languid enjoyment in such persons, "in their eyes, in their arms, and their hands, and their face," which robs us of ourselves, and draws us by a secret sympathy towards them.”

Source: Sketches and Essays: And Winterslow (essays Written There).

“When I see someone who reads something of mine and draws something out of it that's very different from my perspective, I think that's actually cool. Sometimes it's worrisome when you feel they badly misinterpret it, but it just says that they're thinking, and they're bringing their own interpretation to bear on it. [...] That's part of the wonderful thing about putting words into the world, and if I was worried about that, I couldn't be a writer.”

Ifs Thinking World Feels Different Sometimes Wonderful Mines Perspective Bears Draws Worried Interpretation Wonderful Things

Author:Malcolm Gladwell

“Christianity is not a law of bondage; and if it respect the hand of God which sometimes raises up tyrants, it draws up where obedience degenerates into guilty cowardice.”

Ifs Sometimes Hands Law Christianity Draws Raises Guilty Obedience Tyrants Cowardice Bondage Degenerates Hands Of God Raise Up

Author:Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire

“It can be helpful to remember that the enlightened mind and the ordinary mind are two sides of the same coin. The mind is like the sea, which can be rough on the surface, with mountainous waves stirred up by ferocious wind, but calm and peaceful at the bottom. Sometimes we can catch sight of this peaceful mind even in times of trouble. These glimpses of peace show us that we may have more inner resources to draw upon than we had realized. With skill and patience, we can learn how to be in touch with our peaceful selves.”

“Here's the beauty of a camera: you don't have to come up with words for what you're looking at... Maybe another angle is needed sometimes. When we're burned out from writing, we can photograph or draw, look at the world in a different way, and photographers could try writing what they see.”

World Way Writing Trying Looks Different Sometimes Needed Draws Cameras Photographer Photograph Come Up Different Ways Burned Angle Burned Out

Author:Barbara Abercrombie

“Beauty in a woman is a moving thing, Yet sometimes just the patient lack of it Will pierce the heart to deeper poignancies, And, melting, draw a note of tenderness That not the fairest woman could evoke!”

Heart Sometimes Moving Beauty Draws Notes Patient Deeper Tenderness Melting Evoke Pierce Poignancy

Book:Ironica

Source: Ironica

“The interesting thing is that in everyday life, I fail to see the most ordinary things. I often stumble and sometimes I even fall over. But when I draw or look at a painting, I go into a sort of overdrive and just see things differently than other people.”

People Looks Sometimes Fall Interesting Failing Painting Draws Ordinary Everyday Everyday Life Interesting Things Ordinary Things Overdrive

Author:Wolfgang Beltracchi

“The jazz guitarist Peter Sprague calls his home recording studio SpragueLand, but sometimes it seems that the moniker better captures the way he has turned the entire southland into his own musical playground. Sprague is a highly versatile musician who draws on the wellsprings of jazz and Brazilian music as primary influences.”

Way Sometimes Home Seems Influence Musician Draws Jazz Musical Studios Primaries Capture Peter Guitarist Playgrounds Versatile Recording Studio Wellspring Brazilian Music

Author:Andrew S. Gilbert

“I think what draws me to young people is there is always this kind of openness that reacts very strongly to things. Sometimes when you get older, you react much less. That's also a reason why a lot of young people get hurt because if you're open, you're more subject to being hurt by things.”

People Ifs Thinking Kind Sometimes Reason Young Hurt Subjects Draws Reason Why Openness Very Strong Being Hurt

Author:Lukas Moodysson

“Sometimes I use my jokes as building blocks for larger bits. I like to draw and play music, so sometimes I do those things along with the jokes.”

Sometimes Play Use Bits Building Draws Jokes Block Building Blocks

Author:Demetri Martin

“The greatest inspiration I draw upon is, is this city (New York) and riding the subway and watching people and I find that's kind of like the best, the best acting teacher. You know, I wonder, like people who have huge celebrity, sometimes I feel bad, should this be one of their methods 'cause I don't know how they can observe life anymore, because they become the observed. So, I, I appreciate that New York can still do that.”

People Knows Feels Should Kind Stills Sometimes Inspiration Causes Acting Cities Wonder Know How Teacher New York Huge Draws Appreciate Method Riding Subway Best Acting Acting Teachers

Author:Amy Ryan

“Sometimes you've got to draw a line between having all the options and being a slave to the things, using them every time you play the guitar. I'm trying to keep a real inconsistency to the pedals so that it is something new every time.”

Trying Real Sometimes Play Lines Draws Slave Guitar Something New Inconsistency Pedals

Author:Joshua Homme

“I guess what inspires me most is the desire to draw out feelings that feel best expressed on the written page by really good authors, and I'm not a really good author. I feel like my job as a filmmaker is to eff the ineffable, to take feelings that only poets could describe with words and try to project them on the screen for viewers to feel. I don't think I've succeeded once but in the act of trying I've come up with all these other results which sometimes intrigue me.”

Thinking Feels Trying Sometimes Feelings Jobs Desire Results Written Inspire Poet Projects Pages Draws Come Up Screens Filmmaker Viewers Intrigue Ineffable Good Authors

Author:Guy Maddin

“I push myself as hard as I can. Sometimes that can be painful and stressful but inthe end it's worth the price... I like to play characters that I can draw from in my own life. I've invested so much of my life into my work that I almost don't have any choice.”

I Can Ends Sometimes Hard Play Character Choices My Own Draws Painful My Own Life Stressful

Author:Kristen Stewart

“Creativity is essential to any kind of joyful living. Sometimes I act, sometimes I draw, I paint, I write poems. I can't imagine living without it.”

Writing Kind I Can Sometimes Creativity Imagine Essentials Draws Paint Joyful

Author:Zephyr Teachout

“Sometimes I can't draw or take a picture of something, though, if the color is a certain way and the only way to see it is to see it in person.”

Ifs Way Persons I Can Sometimes Certain Color Draws

Author:Jason Polan

“Sometimes I draw with my left hand and I am pretty terrible. The drawings end up just looking like shakier/inconsistent (worse) versions of my right hand drawings. Sometimes I like drawing with my eyes closed.”

Ends Sometimes Hands Eye Left Terrible Draws Drawing Versions Inconsistent Left Hand I Am Pretty

Author:Jason Polan

“Sometimes I will draw people and they will move away too quickly for me to finish what I wanted, and it is not enough for me to consider it a drawing of them. I hope I have gotten better at capturing things quicker in a drawing.”

People Sometimes Enough Wanted Moving Draws Drawing

Author:Jason Polan

“People sometimes see an image and without knowing the surrounding patterns draw false conclusions.”

People Sometimes Knowing Draws Patterns Conclusion

Author:Marianne Williamson

“After I write a sequence, I just open the script and then sit at the piano keyboard and "play" the script. (And because I also draw and paint, sometimes I sketch out the action as well.)”

Writing Wells Sometimes Play Action Draws Paint Scripts Piano Sequence Keyboards

Author:Jeff Britting

“Sometimes, a new toy, a new technology, will focus you. The world is always trying to draw you out, so you always have to remember to go in.”

World Trying Sometimes Remember Technology Focus Draws Toys Always Trying New Technology New Toys

Author:Russell Simmons

“Sometimes I will give some very vague directions to the designer that I'm working with on a particular project and they'll come back and surprise me with something that really shows a lot of their own 'hand' in it. Other times I'll have a really clear idea about how I want it done and I'll draw it out pretty precisely and say 'make it look exactly like this' and it will be something where it looks like I can say it was 'fully my design'. The work can also range between the two.”

Want Giving Looks I Can Two Ideas Sometimes Done Shows Hands Clear Design Particular Projects Draws Surprise Range Designer Vague Surprise Me

Author:Michael Bierut

“Evolutionary biology is crazy because sometimes it seems anybody can draw any conclusion they want.”

Want Sometimes Seems Crazy Draws Conclusion Biology Evolutionary Biology

Author:Naomi Wolf

“I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.”

Way Different Sometimes Artist Style Draws Journalism Different Ways Vocabulary Different Styles

Author:Annie Leibovitz

“I would sometimes sit in a crowded restaurant, and say, 'You know, I'm the only person in this restaurant who can't draw.'”

Knows Persons Sometimes Draws Restaurants Crowded

Author:Scott Adams

“It has always seemed to me. ever since early childhood, amid all the commonplaces of life, i was very near to a kingdom of ideal beauty. Between it and me hung only a thin veil. I could never draw it quite aside, but sometimes a wind fluttered it and I caught a glimpse of the enchanting realms beyond-only a glimpse-but those glimpses have always made life worthwhile.”

Made Sometimes Childhood Wind Draws Ideals Caught Kingdoms Realms Worthwhile Hung Glimpse Veils Commonplace Early Childhood Enchanting

Book:The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

Source: The Alpine Path: The Story of My Career

“I am very fond of the oyster shell. It is humble and awkward and ugly. It is slate-colored and unsymmetrical. Its form is not primarily beautiful but functional. I make fun of its knobbiness. Sometimes I resent its burdens and excrescences. But its tireless adaptability and tenacity draw my astonished admiration and sometimes even my tears. And it is comfortable in its familiarity, its homeliness, like old garden gloves when have molded themselves perfectly to the shape of the hand. I do not like to put it down. I will not want to leave it.”

Want Sometimes Hands Beautiful Form Fun Tears Shapes Comfortable Draws Garden Burden Humble Ugly Admiration Awkward Shells Familiarity Tenacity Resent Gloves Adaptability Oysters Slate

Book:GIFT FROM THE SEA

Source: GIFT FROM THE SEA

“What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.”

Sometimes Hands Wanted Lines Paper Draws Blank Sheets

Book:The Dead of Night

Source: The Dead of Night

“The living do not see eternity, just as they don't see Everlost, but they sense both in ways that they don't even know. They don't feel the Everlost barrier set across the Mississippi River, and yet no one had ever dared to draw city boundaries that straddle both sides of its waters. The living do not see Afterlights, and yet everyone has had times when they've felt a presence near them - sometimes comforting, sometimes not - but always strong enough to make one turn around and look over one's shoulder.”

“There are people whose eyes you must avoid, whose attention you must not draw to yourself. They are strange, parasitic creatures, lost souls seeking to stretch across the abyss and make fatal contact with the warm, constant flow of humanity. They live in pain, and exist only to visit that pain on others. A random glance, the momentary lingering of a look, is enough to give them the excuse that they seek. Sometimes, it is better to keep your eyes on the gutter for the fear that, by looking up, you might catch a glimpse of them, black shapes against the sun, and be blinded forever.”

Source: The Killing Kind: A Charlie Parker Thriller

“Sometimes desire is air, sometimes desire is liquid. And every now and then, when everything else is air and liquid, desire solidifies, and the body is the magnet that draws its weight.”

Sometimes Body Desire Air Draws Weight Now And Then Liquid Magnet

Book:The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

Source: The Lover's Dictionary: A Novel

“She was a sweet girl but not really pretty, a rough sketch of a woman with a little of everything in her, one of those silhouettes which artists draw in three strokes on the tablecloth in a café after dinner, between a glass of brandy and a cigarette. Nature sometimes turns out creatures like that.”

Littles Sometimes Artist Turns Girl Three Sweet Creatures Draws Glasses Dinner Rough Cigarette Strokes Silhouettes Brandy Really Pretty Sweet Girl

Author:Guy de Maupassant

“She knows that whispers can be useful. Sometimes they contain real information. But usually they're fairy tales and lies. This is the worst kind of whisper, the kind that draws you in, gives you hope.”

Knows Giving Kind Real Sometimes Lying Worst Information Draws Tales Fairy Fairy Tale

Book:Pure

Source: Pure

“You form a society: that limits you. Adopt a name, and you've limited yourself again; draw up a constitution and bylaws and you've made a groove, a rut, that hampers your growth. You think you can fix your course and move straight along it. But sometimes the important thing is to strike out sidewise.”

Thinking Made Important Sometimes Moving Form Courses Names Growth Limits Draws Constitution Important Things Strikes Groove Ruts Hamper Bylaws

Author:Robert Henri

“It wasn't that I hated being asked a bunch of questions. I had nothing against questions. I just didn't like listening to them, because some questions take forever to make sense. Sometimes waiting for a question to finish is like watching someone draw an elephant starting with the tail first. As soon as you see the tail your mind wanders all over the place and you think of a million other animals that also have tails until you don't care about the elephant because it's only one thing when you've been thinking about a million others.”

Thinking Mind Firsts Sometimes Care Waiting Animal Millions Forever One Thing Listening Draws Starting Don't Care Bunch Wander Make Sense Hated Tails Elephants

Book:Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

Source: Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key

“It's not the fur or the fangs that make you a monster, not always. Sometimes, it's just where you draw the line.”

Sometimes Lines Draws Monsters Fur Fangs

Book:Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

Source: Burnt Offerings: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel

“Even when poetry has a meaning, as it usually has, it may be inadvisable to draw it out. Perfect understanding will sometimes almost extinguish pleasure.”

May Sometimes Poetry Understanding Perfect Pleasure Draws Poetic

Author:A. E. Housman

“You see, you cannot draw lines and compartments, and refuse to budge beyond them, sometimes you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success”

Sometimes Use Moving Lines Draws Stones Refuse Moving Forward Stepping Stones

Book:A Fine Balance

Source: A Fine Balance