For me, the Immaculate Conception is the feast of 'passive action,' the action that functions simply by the transmission through us of divine energy. Purity, in spite of outward appearances, is essentially an active virtue, because it concentrates God in us and on those who are subject to our influence.
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Enough is as good as a feast.
Joshua Sylvester
It's feast or famine in showbiz.
Joan Rivers
A good conscience is a continual feast.
Robert Burton
A gloomy guest fits not a wedding feast.
Friedrich Schiller
The transmission systems are still regulated.
Kenneth Lay
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Ariel Durant
Education is the transmission of civilization.
Will Durant
Appearances are a glimpse of the unseen.
Anaxagoras
I find it an effort to keep up appearances.
Dusty Springfield
Human improvement is from within outward.
James Anthony Froude
Outward judgment often fails, inward judgment never.
Theodore Parker
An inner process stands in need of outward criteria.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
I have a purity ring.
Teyana Taylor
Purity of heart is to will one thing.
Soren Kierkegaard
I don't pass the Tea Party's purity test.
Lisa Murkowski
I'm a very passive investor.
Kirk Kerkorian
To be silent is to be passive.
Octavia Spencer
Passive pleasure is no pleasure at all.
Arthur Adamov
Active Evil is better than Passive Good.
William Blake
I'm pro-life. I believe in life at conception.
Darryl Glenn
Intuition is the clear conception of the whole at once.
Johann Kaspar Lavater
I think the materialist conception of history is valid.
Christopher Hitchens
I would never do anything just for spite.
Justin Timberlake
I danced with passion to spite the music.
Gelsey Kirkland
I became a writer in spite of my environments.
Robert E. Howard
In spite of your fear, do what you have to do.
Chin-Ning Chu
I am essentially a loner.
Lauren Bacall
Essentially, retweets are like laughs.
Mike Birbiglia
Television was essentially my college.
Edgar Wright
Storytelling is essentially what we do.
Nathan Phillips
Genius, when young, is divine.
Benjamin Disraeli
To err is human; to forgive, divine.
Alexander Pope
Suffering is part of the divine idea.
Henry Ward Beecher
Virtue is harmony.
Pythagoras
Impatience is a virtue.
Ursula Burns
Tenderness is a virtue.
Oliver Goldsmith
I'm really tired of virtue.
P. J. O'Rourke
I love being active.
Dolly Parton
I love being active.
Adam Rippon
I'm actually very active.
RJ Mitte
I'm very active, wild woman.
Laura Schlessinger
Leadership is influence.
John C. Maxwell
Affluence means influence.
Jack London
ABBA was a direct influence on me.
Beth Ditto
Bowie's been a huge influence on me.
Adam Lambert
Death is not my best subject.
Judd Nelson
Math - it's not my best subject.
Heather O'Rourke
I was never my favourite subject.
Lauren Bacall
The style depends on the subject.
Mohsen Makhmalbaf
Action is character.
F. Scott Fitzgerald
I love doing action.
Ashley Scott
I'm action-oriented.
Anne Wojcicki
Action conquers fear.
Peter Nivio Zarlenga
Sex is energy.
Beatrice Wood
I'm high energy.
Karl Urban
Energy begets energy.
Dolly Parton
Love is energy of life.
Robert Browning
Bad's the best of us.
Francis Beaumont
Only a god can save us.
Martin Heidegger
Us Jews are nomadic people.
Bryan Fogel
I am a God.
Curtis Jones
I serve God.
Mr. T
God is good.
Ty Dolla Sign
God is dead!
Gerard De Nerval