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  • According to most philosophers, God in making the world enslaved it. According to Christianity, in making it, He set it free. God had written, not so much a poem, but rather a play; a play he had planned as perfect, but which had necessarily been left to human actors and stage-managers, who had since made a great mess of it.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gilbert K. Chesterton Quotes , Play Quotes , Perfect Quotes
  • China is both an adversary, but also a potential partner in the international community if it's following the rules. So my attitude coming into office was that we are going to insist that China plays by the same rules as everybody else.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Barack Obama Quotes , Attitude Quotes , Play Quotes
  • Dogs are my favorite role models. I want to work like a dog, doing what I was born to do with joy and purpose. I want to play like a dog, with total, jolly abandon. I want to love like a dog, with unabashed devotion and complete lack of concern about what people do for a living, how much money they have, or how much they weigh. The fact that we still live with dogs, even when we don't have to herd or hunt our dinner, gives me hope for humans and canines alike.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Oprah Winfrey Quotes , Dog Quotes , Play Quotes
  • One of the tricks to writing great plays is to get people in a room together and not let them leave. You want the tension to escalate. Keeping them there is the hardest part, so you have to take away any excuse for them to leave.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adam Rapp Quotes , Writing Quotes , Play Quotes
  • The thing with film and theater is that you always know the story so you can play certain cues in each scene with the knowledge that you know where the story's going to end and how it's going to go. But on television nobody knows what's going to happen, even the writers.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Cumming Quotes , Play Quotes , Stories Quotes
  • I think it's been, you know, kind of like a tragic play to this point. But at this point, I think it's clear, and will be clear to the majority of the Congress. I think it's clear to the American people that there is only one countervailing force to a world where financial institutions are trying to sell instruments every day and where credit has dried up, and that's the United States Treasury.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Warren Buffett Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Play Quotes
  • In exactly the same way, ... scatter your body, your feeling, your perception, your predispositions, your discriminative consciousness, break them up, knock them down, cease to play with them, apply yourself to the destruction of craving for them. Verily, ... the extinction of craving is Nirvana.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Gautama Buddha Quotes , Play Quotes , Feelings Quotes