Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me.
~By Sharon Olds ~
When I was younger, I had big visions of changing the world.
~By Rick Danko ~
Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
~By Janet Frame ~
I have like fifteen televisions in my house.
~By Jimmy Kimmel ~
They must therefore not spoil Alexander's undertaking, especially when they were almost at the close of their toils, and were, moreover, no longer in any difficulty about provisions on their coasting cruise.
~By Arrian ~
One of the most pervasive political visions of our time is the vision of liberals as compassionate and conservatives as less caring.
~By Thomas Sowell ~
Cherish your visions and your dreams as they are the children of your soul, the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
~By Napoleon Hill ~
I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.
~By Nastassja Kinski ~
Time has no divisions to mark its passage, there is never a thunder-storm or blare of trumpets to announce the beginning of a new month or year. Even when a new century begins it is only we mortals who ring bells and fire off pistols.
~By Thomas Mann ~
Eighty percent of what everyone's talking about never happens. I don't mean in terms of product development that's happening right now, I'm talking about the far-flung visions of the future.
~By Jay Chiat ~
I declare and protest in advance, that I do not intend, at this time at least; to be drawn or driven into the question of slavery, in either of its subdivisions or forms.
~By Caleb Cushing ~
But the branches of industry are so multifarious, the divisions of labour so minutes and manifold, that it seems at first almost impossible to reduce them to any system.
~By Henry Mayhew ~
Our visions begin with our desires.
~By Audre Lorde ~
The Constitution in all its provisions looks to an indestructible union disposed of indestructible States.
~By Salmon Portland Chase ~
Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
~By Patrick MacGill ~
Instant telecommunication allows better and updated information, lessons learnt and problems encountered to be exchanged and debated, it alerts us more quickly to problems and brings to many households around the world visions and information which hopefully spur us to action.
~By Carol Bellamy ~
Each State has its own health insurance mandates, and some of them are good, but there are about 1,800 of them all across the Nation, including provisions for acupuncturists, massage therapists, and hair replacements.
~By Timothy Murphy ~
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
~By James Madison ~
It is one of the blessings of this world that few people see visions and dream dreams.
~By Zora Neale Hurston ~
I am of opinion that it is highly requisite forthwith to pass a law, prohibiting upon great penalties all trade with our enemies, and more especially the supplying of them with arms, ammunition or provisions of any kind whatsoever.
~By William Shirley ~
You have to wait for people to program you. The only difference is the amount of people that you're going to reach but that's going to even out in the next two or three years anyway. Computers are being bought faster than televisions right now.
~By Chuck D. ~
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.
~By Alexander Hamilton ~
It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.
~By Jim Saxton ~
Humanity lives and always has lived on certain elemental provisions.
~By Charles Wagner ~
Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.
~By Pete Stark ~
The provisions contained in this plan will ensure that the United States has the infrastructure necessary to meet energy needs through future decades, easing dependence on unpredictable foreign oil markets, and creating thousands of new jobs for American workers.
~By Ron Lewis ~
The genius of America is that we are still a land of undiscovered shores, and we are at our best when we open our hearts and allow the night winds to bring renewed visions of great deeds.
~By Phil Bredesen ~
Individuals approaching death often experience encounters with their dead relatives, who seem to welcome them to the next world. These deathbed visions are authentic and convincing; they are often followed by a state of euphoria and seem to ease the transition.
~By Stanislav Grof ~
Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.
~By Victoria Woodhull ~
Today the traveller on the Nile enters a wonderland at whose gates rise the colossal pyramids of which he has had visions perhaps from earliest childhood.
~By James H. Breasted ~
Nothing does more to activate Christian divisions than talk about Christian unity.
~By Conor Cruise O'Brien ~
Last year, the Assembly of the League, as a result of the initiative taken by the Scandinavian nations, further limited and clarified all the provisions of the clause prescribing the duty of states to participate in sanctions.
~By Hjalmar Branting ~
New planted Colonies are generally attended with a Force and Necessity of Planting the known and approved Staple and Product of the Country, as well as all the Provisions their Families spend.
~By John Lawson ~
The founding fathers were not only brilliant, they were system builders and systematic thinkers. They came up with comprehensive plans and visions.
~By Ron Chernow ~
I voted for the Deficit Reduction Package with significant heartburn over the student aid provisions.
~By Bob Inglis ~
My command, less than ten thousand, had found the battle on the Plank road in retreat, little less than a panic. In a few hours we changed defeat to victory, the broken divisions of the Third Corps rallying in their rear.
~By James Longstreet ~
It goes without saying that when you're the manager of a Premiership club, you go eight miles down the road and get beaten by a team two divisions below you, it's disappointing.
~By Kevin Keegan ~
Chicago is a city of contradictions, of private visions haphazardly overlaid and linked together.
~By Pat Colander ~
The Inspector General issued six reviews and reports on actions taken based on provisions of the act. In those six reports, the IG found that not one violation of an individual's civil liberties - a total of zero - had taken place since the act was instituted.
~By Jo Bonner ~
I am not conscious of falling under any of those ornithological divisions.
~By Clark M. Clifford ~
The privatization law draft was recently released and I believe that very soon we will start applying it, of course taking into consideration the provisions of UNMIK (United Nations Mission in Kosovo).
~By Ibrahim Rugova ~
All art is exorcism. I paint dreams and visions too; the dreams and visions of my time. Painting is the effort to produce order; order in yourself. There is much chaos in me, much chaos in our time.
~By Otto Dix ~
One way we gave small businesses more money to invest was by extending tax provisions on expensing. This allows businesses to immediately write off things like equipment, without being burdened by depreciation requirements.
~By Dennis Hastert ~
Command that in no way there be in your household any who make strife, discord or divisions in the hostel, but all shall be of one accord, of one will as of one heart and one soul.
~By Robert Grosseteste ~
Our clothes are going to pieces fast. Send provisions as soon as possible.
~By William John Wills ~
Whoever envisions not one but two series in New York?
~By Christopher Meloni ~
When my first child was born in 1962, I wrote a letter to my grandfather telling him how happy I was but how concerned; concerned because there were so many visions which were not very good.
~By Harri Holkeri ~
Everyone wants to talk about it, and right now music, flat-panel televisions, a whole host of new handheld devices are fun to talk about and very exciting to look at.
~By Kevin Rollins ~
The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or imagined, from abroad.
~By James Madison ~
Terrorists continue to exploit divisions between law enforcement and the intelligence communities that limit the sharing of vital counterterrorism information.
~By Jim Sensenbrenner ~
If the provisions of the constitution be not upheld when they pinch as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned.
~By George Sutherland ~
I like to behave in an extremely normal, wholesome manner for the most part in my daily life. Even if mentally I'm consumed with sick visions of violence, terror, sex and death.
~By Courtney Love ~
A lyric, it is true, is the expression of personal emotion, but then so is all poetry, and to suppose that there are several kinds of poetry, differing from each other in essence, is to be deceived by wholly artificial divisions which have no real being.
~By John Drinkwater ~
Of whatsoever number a fleet of ships of war is composed, it is usually divided into three squadrons; and these, if numerous, are again separated into divisions.
~By William Falconer ~
In addition to the clean coal provisions, the energy conference agreement contains provisions instrumental in helping increase conservation and lowering consumption.
~By Jerry Costello ~
At the World Cup and even now at the Confederations Cup, our security provisions will ensure the greatest level of protection possible for all those participating - both inside and outside the stadiums.
~By Franz Beckenbauer ~
So that we focus not on competing visions for Europe but on what Europe can do to improve economic growth, to give us a cleaner environment, to create more jobs, to make us more secure.
~By John Hutton ~
The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
~By Joel A. Barker ~
And instead of getting a pepper-and-salt effect, we find very clear and sharp divisions between the dialects of the United States, which are getting more different from each other as time goes on.
~By William Labov ~
Visions describe what best should be, could be - if and when mankind has the will to make them real.
~By James Rouse ~
They meant abnormal. Divisions of the kind were fashionable at that time, and it was so easy to stifle one's need to help by deciding that help could neither be accepted nor understood.
~By Janet Frame ~
I'm often called an old-fashioned modernist. But the modernists had the absurd idea that architecture could heal the world. That's impossible. And today nobody expects architects to have these grand visions any more.
~By Thom Mayne ~
It is not materialism that is the chief curse of the world, as pastors teach, but idealism. Men get into trouble by taking their visions and hallucinations too seriously.
~By H. L. Mencken ~
I came here as a man of visions. I was sent here as a man of visions, like a second Noah. I'm not a Noah but I'm here as a second Noah. I'm here as a red light is in the street.
~By Howard Finster ~
Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
~By James Madison ~
They don't have the news media set up in Africa that we do in the United States, where televisions are so accessible and newspapers and magazines are able to educate people.
~By Matthew Modine ~
To become truly immortal, a work of art must escape all human limits: logic and common sense will only interfere. But once these barriers are broken, it will enter the realms of childhood visions and dreams.
~By Giorgio de Chirico ~
The Pope? How many divisions has he got?
~By Joseph Stalin ~
Cherish your visions and your dreams, as they are the children of your soul; the blueprints of your ultimate achievements.
~By Napolean Hill ~
I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.
~By Vaclav Havel ~
Something new has taken place in the past five to eight years. Technologists are providing almost religious visions, and their ideas are resonating in some ways with the same idea of the Rapture.
~By Eric Horvitz ~
Or the other process that is important is that I compress longer sections of composed music, either found or made by myself, to such an extent that the rhythm becomes a timbre, and formal subdivisions become rhythm.
~By Karlheinz Stockhausen ~
The life of a man consists not in seeing visions and in dreaming dreams, but in active charity and in willing service.
~By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ~
I wish to sing of my interior visions with the naive candour of a child.
~By Claude Debussy ~
If art has a purpose, it is to interpret life, reproduce it in fresh visions.
~By Catherine Drinker Bowen ~
It's really kind of hard to be a suburb of nothing. If you don't have a downtown, you really don't have anything. It's hard to build a community around parking lots and subdivisions.
~By Ed McMahon ~
Thought is creating divisions out of itself and then saying that they are there naturally.
~By David Bohm ~
My conviction of the necessity of further legislative provisions for the safe-keeping and disbursement of the public moneys and my opinion in regard to the measures best adapted to the accomplishment of those objects have been already submitted to you.
~By Martin Van Buren ~
Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey's end.
~By Marcus Tullius Cicero ~
I try to avoid long-range plans and visions - that way I can more easily deal with anything new that comes up.
~By Linus Torvalds ~
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight.
~By Thomas Gray ~
It is my meditation all the day, and more than my meat and drink, to know how I shall make the Saints of God comprehend the visions that roll like an overflowing surge before my mind.
~By Joseph Smith, Jr. ~
Any ideal system is its own worst enemy, and as soon as you start to implement these visions of grandeur, they just fall apart and turn into a complete tyranny.
~By Ben Nicholson ~
What is the harm of doing the right thing? What is the harm of doing our job as legislators and making sure we do not stick the entire bankruptcy community with these provisions that do not make any sense?
~By Russ Feingold ~
I had daydreams and fantasies when I was growing up. I always wanted to live in a log cabin at the foot of a mountain. I would ride my horse to town and pick up provisions. Then return to the cabin, with a big open fire, a record player and peace.
~By Linda McCartney ~
Among the many important provisions in the energy bill are the creation of an estimated half million new jobs, increased oil production, blackout protection, controlling fertilizer costs by stabilizing natural gas prices and enacting new efficiency benchmarks.
~By Paul Gillmor ~
But beyond the hysteria of phantom death panels, where is the abomination? Show me the provisions that will hurt consumers, because if you think a $110 billion a year tax break for working-class Americans to buy private health insurance is a government takeover, I welcome the debate.
~By Jim McDermott ~
True Americanism is opposed utterly to any political divisions resting on race and religion.
~By Henry Cabot Lodge ~
I have been blessed to see visions of eternity; and events in my future that have been important for me to foresee, have been revealed to me.
~By Clayton Christensen ~
I prefer to be a dreamer among the humblest, with visions to be realized, than lord among those without dreams and desires.
~By Khalil Gibran ~
I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.
~By Alexander Pope ~
Race and class are the easiest divisions. It's very stupid.
~By Lynda Barry ~
I'm always looking to create new avenues or new visions of music.
~By Herbie Hancock ~
Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
~By Joel A. Barker ~
Civil libertarians have raised concerns that some of the Patriot Act's provisions infringe on Constitutional rights. Those concerns are not supported by the facts.
~By Roger Wicker ~
Illusions of grandeur are not the same as visions of greatness.
~By Edwin Louis Cole ~
I suppose that the media and their portrayal of Islam and the almost tribal separations and divisions of the Muslims are the greatest issues confronting Muslims in the United Kingdom.
~By Cat Stevens ~
Each one of us, and, indeed, all those who aspire to national leadership must bring their own visions, views and styles to the business of reforming Nigeria, and the search for solutions.
~By Ibrahim Babangida ~
The important achievement of Apollo was demonstrating that humanity is not forever chained to this planet and our visions go rather further than that and our opportunities are unlimited.
~By Neil Armstrong ~
We got more provisions for our whiskey than the same money, which we paid for the liquor, would have bought; so after all it proved a very profitable investment.
~By Buffalo Bill ~
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