Bundles Quotes:

If you're a producer, you always spend too much money because you want that shot - and you're willing to spend a bundle to get it.

- Bill Kurtis

topic: Want, Too Much, Bundles

I am, in plainer words, a bundle of prejudices - made up of likings and dislikings.

- Charles Lamb

source: Charles Lamb (1840). “The essays of Elia”, p.35

topic: Prejudice, Bundles, Made

Faith and works are bound up in the same bundle. He that obeys God trusts God; and he that trusts God obeys God. He that is without faith is without works; and he that is without works is without faith.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Trust In God, Bundles

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

- Tori Spelling

topic: Irrational Fear, Nerves, Bundles

Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?

- David A. Noebel

topic: Energy, Want, Bundles

For bundles of universals can be in more than one place at the same time; so a bundle can have more than one instance; so there can be numerically distinct particulars sharing the same universals; so the principle of identity of indiscernibles is false.

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Identity, Principles, Bundles

I do not believe in the bundle theory anyway. The bundle theory postulates universals and I do not believe in them; so I do not believe in the bundle theory.

- Gonzalo Rodriguez-Pereyra

source: Source: www.3ammagazine.com

topic: Believe, Bundles, Theory

A critic is a bundle of biases held loosely together by a sense of taste.

- Whitney Balliett

topic: Together, Taste, Bundles

The body is a bundle of careful compromises.

- Randolph M. Nesse

source: Randolph M. Nesse, George C. Williams (2012). “Why We Get Sick: The New Science of Darwinian Medicine”, p.12, Vintage

topic: Body, Compromise, Bundles

Your world is very small. Your world is bundle of your experiences. Have you observed this?

- Sri Sri Ravi Shankar

topic: World, Bundles

A liberal is only a bundle of prejudices until he has mastered, has understood, experienced the philosophy of Conservatism.

- Lord Acton

topic: Philosophy, Prejudice, Bundles

At first it was simply liking, Nastenka, but now, now ! I am just in the same position as you were when you went to him with your bundle. In a worse position than you, Nastenka,because he cared for no one else as you do.

- Fyodor Dostoevsky

source: Fyodor Dostoevsky (2018). “White Nights and Other Stories”, p.55, Youcanprint

topic: Firsts, Bundles, Position

Hee that hath charge of soules transports them not in bundles.

- George Herbert

source: George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.363

topic: Bundles, Transport

We are mere bundles of habits.

- William James

topic: Habit, Bundles, Mere

I am this bundle of what has been, and what has been accomplished.

- Carl Jung

source: Carl Gustav Jung, Roderick Main (1997). “Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal”, Psychology Press

topic: Bundles, Accomplished, Has Beens

The energetic action of the times develops individualism, and the religious appear isolated. I esteem this a step in the right direction. Heaven deals with us on no representative system. Souls are not saved in bundles.

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

source: Ralph Waldo Emerson (1872). “Representative men. English traits. Conduct of life”, p.429

topic: Religious, Heaven, Soul, Steps In The Right Direction, Representatives

A book is a book only when it is read; otherwise it is a bundle of gathered sheets of soiled paper.

- Frederick Philip Grove

source: Frederick Philip Grove, Paul Hjartarson (1986). “A stranger to my time: essays by and about Frederick Philip Grove”

topic: Book, Paper, Sheets, Bundles

Bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret.

- Charles Caleb Colton

source: Charles Caleb Colton (1823). “Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan”

topic: Regret, Sleep, Insomnia, Going To Sleep, Bundles

A single twig breaks, but the bundle of twigs is strong.

- Tecumseh

topic: Strength, Being Strong, Break, Twigs, Bundles

A man wrapped up in himself makes a very small bundle.

- Benjamin Franklin

topic: Motivational, Leadership, Confidence, Bundles, Humility And Modesty

Could the young but realize how soon they will become mere walking bundles of habits, they would give more heed to their conduct while in the plastic state.

- William James

topic: Giving, Realizing, Habit, Bundles, Heed

The search for the symbolic value of phonemes, each taken as a whole, runs the risk of giving rise to ambiguous and trivial interpretations because phonemes are complex entities, bundles of different distinctive features.

- Roman Jakobson

topic: Running, Taken, Giving, Symbolic, Bundles

Very little changed fundamentally, except that the proud German soldier had turned into a defeated bundle of misery and the great German army had disintegrated.

- George Grosz

source: George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

topic: Army, Soldier, Littles, Bundles, German Soldiers

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

- Ogden Nash

topic: Morning, Regret, Night, Going To Sleep, Bundles

You do things when the opportunities come along. I've had periods in my life when I've had a bundle of ideas come along, and I've had long dry spells. If I get an idea next week, I'll do something. If not, I won't do a damn thing.

- Warren Buffett

topic: War, Opportunity, Ideas, Damn Things, Original Ideas

My favorite work is The Full Monty because I got an Oscar for it. But it was really hard work at the time. Sometimes comedy is not a bundle of laughs to actually do.

- Anne Dudley

topic: Hard Work, Laughing, Oscars, Bundles, Monty

I was always a great bundle of energy. As a child, instead of walking, I would run. And so running, which is a pain to a lot of people, was always a pleasure to me because it was so easy.

- Roger Bannister

source: "The Gigantic Book of Running Quotations". Book edited by Hal Higdon, 2011.

topic: Sports, Running, Children, Bundles

I'm not a genius. I'm just a tremendous bundle of experience.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

topic: Life Lesson, Experience, Genius, Bundles

A farmer who had a quarrelsome family called his sons and told them to lay a bunch of sticks before him. Then, after laying the sticks parallel to one another and binding them, he challenged his sons, one after one, to pick up the bundle and break it. They all tried, but in vain. Then, untying the bundle, he gave them the sticks to break one by one. This they did with the greatest ease. Then said the father, "Thus, my sons, as long as you remain united, you are a match for anything, but differ and separate, and you are undone".

- Aesop

topic: Family, Teamwork, Father, Bundles

The great majority of men are bundles of beginnings

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

topic: Self Esteem, Men, Majority, Endings Being New Beginnings, Bundles

Even when the poet seems most himself . . . he is never the bundle of accident and incoherence that sits down to breakfast; he has been reborn as an idea, something intended, complete.

- William Butler Yeats

topic: Ideas, Breakfast, Poet, Incoherence, Bundles

One of my timesaving habits is to save all of my magazines and junk mail for airplane trips. I walk on the plane with a very heavy bundle, but by the time the trip is over, it can all be thrown away.

- Renee Fleming

topic: Airplane, Magazines, Mail, Junk Mail, Bundles

I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

- Ezra Pound

source: Ezra Pound (1958). “Pavannes and Divagations”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

topic: Way, Pressure, Months, Studs, Procreation

One must have the adventurous daring to accept oneself as a bundle of possibilities and undertake the most interesting game in the world -- making the most of one's best.

- Harry Emerson Fosdick

topic: Inspirational, Games, Interesting, Inspiring Self Esteem, Self Pity

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

- Clementine Paddleford

topic: Simplicity, Culture, Taste, Bundles

A man is a great bundle of tools. He is born into this life without the knowledge of how to use them. Education is the process of learning their use.

- Henry Ward Beecher

source: Henry Ward Beecher, William Drysdale (1887). “Proverbs from Plymouth Pulpit”

topic: Education, Men, Tools, Bundles

Here I am, a bundle of past recollections and future dreams, knotted up in a reasonably attractive bundle of flesh. I remember what this flesh has gone through; I dream of what it may go through.

- Sylvia Plath

source: Sylvia Plath (2013). “The Journals of Sylvia Plath”, p.18, Anchor

topic: Dream, Past, Here I Am, Bundles, Future Dreams

You never know what little bundle of encouragements artists carry around with them, what little pats on the back from what hands, what newspaper clipping, what word of hope from what teacher. I suppose the so-called faith in ourselves is the foundation of our talent, but I am sure these encouragements are the mortar that holds it together.

- Luciano Pavarotti

topic: Teacher, Encouragement, Artist, Words Of Hope, Bundles

Putting styles on lock, and making beats by the bundle, Scooping more props than Bryant Gumbel...and staying humble.

- Pete Rock

topic: Rap, Humble, Hip Hop, Bundles

You know when ubuntu is there, and it is obvious when it is absent. It has to do with what it means to be truly human, to know that you are bound up with others in the bundle of life.

- Desmond Tutu

topic: Mean, Ubuntu, Empathy, Bundles

If a man would register all his opinions upon love, politics, religion, learning etc., beginning from his youth, and so go to old age, what a bundle of inconsistencies and contradictions would appear at last.

- Jonathan Swift

source: Jonathan Swift (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Jonathan Swift (Illustrated)”, p.895, Delphi Classics

topic: Love, Learning, Men, Bundles

You are a bundle of mysteries. Finding and conquering yourself is a lifetime task. There are unplumbed depths in you full of the rich ore of personal discovery. Explore yourself! There is power in you - the power to change yourself and to change the world; the power to create plans, projects, movements for the common good; the power to inspire and serve.

- Wilferd Peterson

source: "The Art of Living".

topic: Writing, Discovery, Inspire, Power To Change, Bundles

Long-term travel doesn't require a massive bundle of cash; it requires only that we walk through the world in a more deliberate way.

- Rolf Potts

source: Rolf Potts (2002). “Vagabonding: An Uncommon Guide to the Art of Long-Term World Travel”, p.10, Ballantine Books

topic: Inspirational, Travel, Long, Bundles

The Kabbalah describes angels as bundles of light, meaning intelligence, consciousness. Kabbalists believe that above every blade of grass is an angel crying "Grow! Grow!" ... I believe that above the entire human race is one super-angel, crying "Evolve! Evolve!"

- Steven Pressfield

topic: Inspirational, Believe, Angel, Bundles, Kabbalah

Now I have demonstrated, that the convolutions of the brain are nothing but the peripheric expansion of the bundles of which it is composed; consequently the convolutions of the brain must be recognized as the parts in which the instincts, sentiments, propensities are exercised; and, in general the moral and intellectual forces.

- Franz Joseph Gall

topic: Brain, Intellectual, Expansion, Bundles

Deduction, which takes us from the general proposition to facts again-teaches us, if I may so say, to anticipate from the ticket what is inside the bundle.

- Thomas Huxley

source: Thomas Henry Huxley (1872). “Lay Sermons, Addresses, and Reviews”, p.83

topic: Science, May, Facts, Bundles

This single Stick, which you now behold ingloriously lying in that neglected Corner, I once knew in a flourishing State in a Forest: It was full of Sap, full of Leaves, and full of Boughs: But now, in vain does the busy Art of Man pretend to vie with Nature, by tying that withered Bundle of Twigs to its sapless Trunk: It is at best but the Reverse of what it was; a Tree turned upside down, the Branches on the Earth, and the Root in the Air.

- Jonathan Swift

source: Jonathan Swift, Thomas Roscoe (1859). “The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D.: with copious notes and additions and a memoir of the author”, p.551

topic: Art, Nature, Lying, Bundles

They have our bundles split open in museums / our dresses & shirts at auctions / our languages on tape / our stories in locked rare book libraries / our dances on film / The only part of us they can't steal / is what we know.

- Chrystos

source: Chrystos (1988). “Not vanishing”, Press Gang Pub

topic: Book, Museums, Library, Bundles

For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as an 'intelligible field' or a system in and of itself. Whatever else he may be, man is a social and an historical actor who must be understood, if at all, in close and intricate interplay with social and historical structures

- C. Wright Mills

source: C. Wright Mills (2000). “The Sociological Imagination”, p.158, Oxford University Press

topic: Men, Historical, Actors, Intricate, Bundles

Modern liberalism, for most liberals is not a consciously understood set of rational beliefs, but a bundle of unexamined prejudices and conjoined sentiments. The basic ideas and beliefs seem more satisfactory when they are not made fully explicit, when they merely lurk rather obscurely in the background, coloring the rhetoric and adding a certain emotive glow.

- James Burnham

topic: Ideas, Prejudice, Belief, Lurking, Modern Liberalism

There is a place where the human enters dream and myth, and becomes a part of it, or maybe it is the other way around when the story grows from the body and spirit of humankind. In any case, we are a story, each of us, a bundle of stories, some as false as phantom islands but believed in nevertheless. Some might be true.

- Linda Hogan

topic: Dream, Islands, Stories, Bundles

Loving someone condemns you to a lifetime of fear. You become painfully conscious of how fragile people are - bundles of brittle bones and vulnerable flesh, breeding grounds for billions of deadly germs and horrible diseases.

- Barbara Mertz

topic: People, Loving Someone, Disease, Bundles

We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul.

- Frances Harper

topic: Soul, Humanity, Unity, Bundles, Humanity And Society

He who learns, and makes no use of his learning, is a beast of burden with a load of books. Does the ***** comprehend whether he carries on his back a library or a bundle of faggots?

- Saadi

topic: Book, Library, Ass, Bundles, Beast Of Burden

Abolitionists were men of sharp angles. Organizing them was like binding crooked sticks in a bundle.

- Jane Swisshelm

topic: Men, Sticks, Angle, Bundles

I'm afraid to look in the mirror. I'm afraid I'm going to see an old lady with white hair, just like the old ladies in the park. Alittle bundle in a black shawl just waiting for the coffin.

- Paddy Chayefsky

topic: Fear, Hair, White, Bundles, White Hair

One criticizes the English for carrying their teapots wherever they go, even lugging them up Mount Etna. But doesn't every nationhave its teapot, in which, even when traveling, it brews the dried bundles of herbs brought from home?

- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

topic: Home, Tolerance, Herbs, Bundles, Teapots

I started running in Junior High School. I was so slow and uncoordinated the coach set me up with a paper route so that instead of going to work out after school I went to the corner of Providence Ave at Crestline St. and picked up a bundle of 15 newspapers.

- Gerry Lindgren

source: Interview with Mick Grant, John Molvar, www.youthrunner.com. January 12, 2011.

topic: Bundles, High School Junior

Man torturing man is a fiend beyond description. You turn a corner in the dark and there he is. You congeal into a bundle of inanimate fear. You become the very soul of anesthesia. But there is no escaping him. It is your turn now.

- Henry Miller

source: Henry Miller (1945). “The Air-conditioned Nightmare”, [New York] : New directions

topic: Fear, Dark, Men, Bundles, Anesthesia

At my age, I don’t need to be a sexy bundle of muscles, thank you very much.

- Karl Lagerfeld

topic: Sexy, Age, Needs, Bundles