#idea

For a long time on Earth humans didn't worship good gods; that's a new idea. The ancient Greek gods, the Hindu gods, are fairly amoral, most of them. We get stuck when we insist that God be both good and all-powerful. ↗

— Barbara Ehrenreich

#amoral #ancient #both #earth #fairly

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas. ↗

— Albert Einstein

#logical #mathematics #poetry #pure #way

I'd sold the book first. Actually to a paperback publisher. I had nothing. I just had the idea. ↗

— William Peter Blatty

#book #first #had #i #idea

Everything that is, was, and will be, eternally IS, even the countless forms, which are finite and perishable only in their objective, not in their ideal Form. ↗

— H. P. Blavatsky

#eternally #even #everything #finite #form

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in. ↗

— Shia LaBeouf

#capitalism #economy #future #government #i

The world will never have lasting peace so long as men reserve for war the finest human qualities. Peace, no less than war, requires idealism and self-sacrifice and a righteous and dynamic faith. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

#dynamic #faith #finest #human #human qualities

I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts. ↗

— Lena Dunham

#awful #because #before #book #concepts

I will say that the idea of a woman being deceptive came from that original discussion with critics and reporters about if woman could do that kind of thing. Evelyn, herself, grew out of the discussions about how capable women are of deceit and lying and manipulation. ↗

— Neil LaBute

#being #came #capable #could #critics

Ideas seem to come from everywhere - my life, everything I see, hear, and read, and most of all, from my imagination. I have a lot of imagination. ↗

— Judy Blume

#everything #everywhere #hear #i #i see

I had no idea what it would be like to be a bomb tech in Baghdad until I got there so I didn't know what to expect. It was very eye-opening. ↗

— Mark Boal

#bomb #expect #got #had #i