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Richard Powers Quotes

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning.

Richard Powers

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: novelist
Nationality: american
Birth: June 18, 1957

Topics

Live Imagination Beginning Thought

Discrimination and prejudice of any kind have no place in sports or in our society.

Jerry Reinsdorf

Sports Society Discrimination Place

It is even more damaging for a minister to say foolish things than to do them.

Jean Francois Paul de Gondi

Say More Foolish Things Even Than

The closing of a door can bring blessed privacy and comfort - the opening, terror. Conversely, the closing of a door can be a sad and final thing - the opening a wonderfully joyous moment.

Andy Rooney

Sad Moment Door Blessed Comfort

The fact is, psychiatric help is not widely available to CIA agents - and as in the military, there is a stigma attached to admitting post-traumatic stress.

Michael Hastings

Stress Help Military Available Fact

Gluttony might be innocuous were it not for the fact that gluttons tend to disregard whether their self-serving behaviors harm anyone else. We don't need to look far and wide to find examples of gluttonous behavior, as they are numerous throughout the history of capitalism.

Simon Mainwaring

History Capitalism Behavior Look Far

The philosophy to 'buy and hold' is a philosophy that I use to manage funds.

Michael Lee-Chin

Philosophy Buy Hold Use Funds

I'm always attracted by people who are lost in their time. I think it helps us.

Luc Besson

Time People Think Lost Always Us

I don't know the first real thing about the dating game. I don't know how to talk to a specific person and connect. I just think you have to go to person by person and do the best you can with people in general.

Jason Schwartzman

Best Dating People Game Think You

You can't always get someone where you want to with just sticks. There have to be some carrots, there have to be some other shaping things.

Dennis C. Blair

Someone You Want Always Things Get

I've got some great guy friends. They can start out as crushes. But when you realize something isn't going to happen, you make a choice whether or not the friendship is worth it. And it usually is. Then you can laugh about the fact that you used to have a crush on him or he had one on you.

Courteney Cox

Friendship Great Start Laugh Friends

God leaves to Man the choice of Forms in Government; and those who constitute one Form, may abrogate it.

Algernon Sidney

God Man Government Choice May Who

Affirmative action was never meant to be permanent, and now is truly the time to move on to some other approach.

Susan Estrich

Time Action Meant To Be Move On Now