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Herbert Read Quotes

The most general law in nature is equity-the principle of balance and symmetry which guides the growth of forms along the lines of the greatest structural efficiency.

Herbert Read

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: poet
Nationality: english
Birth: December 4, 1893 - June 12, 1968

Topics

Nature Growth Balance Law Efficiency

How do you say no when a little kid is asking you for ice cream? I know I can't say no to it myself.

Jimmie Johnson

Myself Ice You Ice Cream Know Say

We were raised with that discussion about violence and non-violence, and we all pretty much came up on the side of non-violence. That became my foundation with politics and my livelihood.

Joan Baez

Politics Foundation Violence Up Side

Our affluence has allowed us to move to a place where we tend to make things pleasurable, as opposed to efficient.

Jesse Schell

Place Things Where Us Move Our

I'm still not comfortable recommending that people eat saturated fat with abandon, but it's clear to me that sugar, flour and oxidized seed oils create inflammatory effects in the body that almost certainly bear most of the responsibility for elevating heart disease risk.

Andrew Weil

Heart Responsibility People Me Seed

Violence is not more efficient than non-violence.

Andrew Young

Violence Non-Violence More Than

I really miss Melbourne food; Melbourne is very snobbish about their caffe culture, and I feel like I've become a snob, too.

Angourie Rice

Food Culture Feel Become Melbourne

Women always think that I'm Chandler, so if I don't joke around for half an hour, they think that something's wrong. Then I explain that I don't have comedy writers scripting everything I'm saying at this particular dinner.

Matthew Perry

Women Dinner Saying Think Comedy

Supermarkets didn't even want to talk to me about how much food they were wasting. I'd been round the back. I'd seen bins full of food being locked and then trucked off to landfill sites, and I thought, surely there is something more sensible to do with food than waste it.

Tristram Stuart

Food Me Thought Back Want Talk

I have great sympathy for people that are infertile, but a life is not something you can give away.

Mary Beth Whitehead

Life Great People Sympathy You Give

It's a bit naff, but there is something exciting about pulling a bit of pottery out of the ground that's 2,000 years old.

Mary Beard

Old Years Out Ground Something Bit

It took me a long time to reach the decision to retire, actually, from the Art Ensemble.

Joseph Jarman

Time Art Decision Me Reach Long

Gratitude changes the pangs of memory into a tranquil joy.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Gratitude Thankful Joy Memory