Creation Quotations | Page 9

Generalization is necessary to the advancement of knowledge; but particularity is indispensable to the creations of the imagination.

Nobles by the right of an earlier creation, and priests by the imposition of a mightier hand.

Her existence alone was excuse enough to justify the creation of the entire world.

Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation...

Viral videos arent just about being funny. Theyre about identity creation.

Whoever invented marriage was an ingenious tormentor. It is an institution committed to the dulling of the feelings. The whole point of marriage is repetition. The best it aims for is the creation of strong, mutual dependencies.

When you can't go forward, and you can't go backward, and you can't stay where you are without killing off something deep and vital in yourself, you are on the edge of creation.

God is the perfect poet, Who in his person acts his own creations.

As Muslims the way we show respect to the creator is by respecting creation and this is why we have to reconcile ourselves with the objectives of the Revelation and the objective is really to honor nature as part of Creation.

If you look at how we are destroying and disrespecting Creation it is obvious that is something is not clear in our understanding. We overemphasize rules but we don't understand the objective.

When I go back to the Quran I see that the context of Revelation is creation in its entirety. The universe is a Revelation and this of course includes nature, plants and animals. In other words, what is coming from the Quran as rules and objectives are set within the larger scheme of the universe and nature as part of Creation.

Nothing can match the wonderment that comes from staring up into the star-filled canopy above and realizing that you are a part of that creation.

I was interested in the mystical element of humor - was humor part of creation? Is God laughing at us, or with us?

God and mother, partners in creation, in love, in sacrifice, in service, are as one.

We live in the midst of a creation that is groaning.

The joy is in the creation. So I've never had a target audience, it's always been about being true to the work as it emerges.

There's a gratification that comes from performing in front of a live audience, and you can't replicate that with anything else. In the studio, the creation part of this business is fun. But, when you see the fans letting you know that they enjoy what you're doing, that's why I keep doing what I do.

When you say "I am," the words that follow are summoning creation with a mighty force, because you are declaring it to be fact.

The law of attraction is the law of creation. Quantum physicists tell us that the entire Universe emerged from thought!

Creation is a process that is still happening and we’re in on it! We are a part of this endless creativity of God.

The Bible account of the creation of Eve is a preposterous fable.

If you are what you've always been, you are not a Christian. A Christian is a new creation.

All the great religions have a place for awe, for ecstatic transport at the wonder and beauty of creation.

Truth is a free creation of the human spirit, that never would exist at all if we did not generate it ourselves.

Not that which is inspires the creation, but that which may be; not the actual, but the possible.

The collapse of the stellar universe will occur - like creation - in grandiose splendor.

My experiences with science led me to God. They challenge science to prove the existence of God. But must we really light a candle to see the sun?

Science and religion are not antagonists. On the contrary, they are sisters. While science tries to learn more about the creation, religion tries to better understand the Creator. While through science man tries to harness the forces of nature around him, through religion he tries to harness the force of nature within him.

Fighting for and defending the values from the pulpit is critical. You can't love the Creator, and disrespect the creation.

A green jobs bill would include both job creation and job training.

The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.

What was God doing with himself before the creation?

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

I do a lot of recipe creation. Translation: cooking tempting dishes that must be eaten.

Trust and mutual value creation helps both employer and employee compete in the marketplace.

Marketing should focus on market creation, not market sharing

The world's creation has a beginning from the world's point of view, not from God's.

In loving his own productive, generative, generous love, God loves all those ways in which that love can be realised in creation.

If anybody is gonna kill my creation, I'm gonna do it! ME... and the nWo.

The Muse visits during the process of creation, not before.

What is essential to understand at this point is that until now there was no such thing as mind and matter, subject and object, form and substance. Those divisions are just dialectical inventions that came later...They are just ghosts, immortal gods of the modern mythos which appear to us to be real because we are within that mythos. But in reality they are just as much an artistic creation as the anthropomorphic gods they replaced.

It is the task of the translator to release in his own language that pure language that is under the spell of another, to liberate the language imprisoned in a work in his re-creation of that work.

The only difficulty is to know what bits to choose and what to leave out. Novel-writing is not creation, it is selection.

The cardinal error of science lies in shutting the Creator out of His Creation.

The whole of creation, with all of its laws, is a revelation of God.

The distribution of wealth is just as important as its creation.

Time was God's first creation.

Darwin begins by assuming life upon the earth; the Bible reveals the source of life and chronicles its creation.

A revelation is to be received as coming from God, not because of its internal excellence, or because we judge it to be worthy of God; but because God has declared it to be His in as plain and undeniable a manner as He has declared creation and providence to be His.

I prefer a God who once and for all impressed his will upon creation, to one who continually busied about modifying what he had already done.

Thus, those who say they would have right without its correlate, wrong; or good government without its correlate, misrule, do not apprehend the great principles of the universe, nor the nature of all creation.

The knowledge of the ancients reached the highest point-the time before anything existed. This is the highest point. It is exhaustive. There is no adding to it.

Man has a fund of emotional energy which is not all occupied with his self-preservation. This surplus seeks its outlet in the creation of art, for man's civilization is built upon his surplus... In everyday life, when we are mostly moved by our habit

O fairest of creation! last and best / Of all God's works! Creature in whom excelled / Whatever can to sight or thought be formed, / Holy, divine, good, amiable, or sweet!

Men who are occupied in the restoration of health to other men, by the joint exertion of skill and humanity, are above all the great of the earth. They even partake of divinity, since to preserve and renew is almost as noble as to create.

Search not a wound too deep lest thou make a new one.

Creation comes before distribution -- or there will be nothing to distribute.

If it could be demonstrated that any complex organ existed, which could not possibly have been formed by numerous, successive, slight modifications, my theory would absolutely break down. But I can find no such case.

I have at least, as I hope, done good service in aiding to overthrow the dogma of separate creations.

This act [creation], as it is for God, must always remain totally inconceivable to man. For we--even our poets and musicians and inventors--never, in the ultimate sense make. We only build. We always have materials to build from. All we can know about the act of creation must be derived from what we can gather about the relation of the creatures to their Creator

Man is Creation's masterpiece. But who says so?

The proof that the state is a creation of nature and prior to the individual is that the individual, when isolated, is not self-sufficing;

God has put somrthing noble and good into every heart His hand created.

We throw the whole drudgery of creation one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction

What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday, and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow: Our life is the creation of our mind.

Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire...

Nothing can rival the incredible rush the act of creation brings. Of crafting something you know is destined to be great for all time.

Paul was instrumental in the creation of Microsoft and has played an important role in the success and direction of our company throughout the years,

This is the very coinage of your brain: this bodiless creation ecstasy.

The Big Bang is our modern scientific creation myth. It comes from the same human need to solve the cosmological riddle [Where did the universe come from?]

Man is a transitional animal. He is not the climax of creation

For in self-giving, if anywhere, we touch a rhythm not only of all creation but of all being.

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Dogs are indeed the most social, affectionate, and amiable animals of the whole brute creation...

To live is to express, and to express you have to create. Creation is never merely repetition. To live is to express oneself freely in creation.

In building a statue, a sculptor doesn't keep adding clay to his subject. Actually, he keeps chiseling away at the nonessentials until the truth of his creation is revealed without obstruction.

Energy and imagination are the springboards to wealth creation.

You are a masterpiece of creation.

All creation is a mine, and every man a miner.

Creation is a sustained period of bliss.

...Any authentic creation is a gift to the future.

Artistic creation is a demand for unity and a rejection of the world.

PRE-EXISTENCE, n. An unnoted factor in creation.

The richest source of creation is feeling, followed by a vision of its meaning.

In creation alone there is the possibility of perfection.

The core of creation is to summon an image and the power to work with the image.

Creation which cannot express itself becomes madness.

The monster I kill every day is the monster of realism. The monster who attacks me every day is destruction. Out of the duel comes the transformation. I turn destruction into creation over and over again.

Introspection is a devouring monster. You have to feed it with much material, much experience, many people, many places, many loves, many creations, and then it ceases feeding on you.

I love every aspect of the creation of motion pictures and I guess I am committed to it for life.

I should much rather see a reasonable agreement with Arabs based upon living together than the creation of a Jewish state.

The most important thing was the creation of a... a standard, where hundreds of companies build hardware that can all run the same software.

Jah sitteth in Mount Zion, and rules all creation!

A dream is a creation of the intelligence, the creator being present but not knowing how it will end.

This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once: scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

Instinct is like Nature herself - prodigiously conservative, and yet transcending her own historical conditions in her acts of creation.

Continuous creation is to be thought of not only as a series of successive acts of creation, but also as the eternal presence of the one creative act.

You are young. No hungry generations tread you down.... The past does not mock you with the ruins of a beauty the secret of whose creation you have lost...

As the poet said, "Only God can make a tree" - probably because it's so hard to figure out how to get the bark on