Quotation Explorer - 'Stage'

Writing is the dancing of the mind on a stage called paper. - Debasish Mridha
I believe that we have reached a stage in life in the economic development of Africa where moving forward is perilous, moving backwards is cowardice and standing still is suicidal but we must persevere because winners do not quit and quitter never win. - Patrick L.O. Lumumba
There comes a stage perhaps in everyone’s life when everything looks worthless, except to a person who is really a worthless. - Anuj Somany
Some part of me knew that I could play this part well, or better than well. But I was almost afraid to play it. The line between stage and life was so fragile here that I felt a risk of losing myself somehow. - J.B. Cheaney
If you experience bliss of the Self (samadhi) amidst complete problematic stage, then know that you have met a Gnani Purush [the enlightened one]! - Dada Bhagwan
Today evolution of human intelligence has advanced us to the stage where most of us are too smart to invent new gods but are reluctant to give up the old ones. - Ruth Hurmence Green
There comes a stage in the life of a person having feelings, when both i.e speaking out and keeping mum on a matter that concerns everyone becomes equally painful. - Anuj Somany
I do not think that I will ever reach a stage when I will say, "This is what I believe. Finished." What I believe is alive ... and open to growth - Madeleine L'Engle
I dont care who the audience is looking at just as long as they're looking at the stage.
The basis of all reasoning is the mind's awareness of itself. What we think, the external objects we perceive, are all like actors that come on and off stage. But our consciousness, the stage itself, is always present to us. - Trey Parker
Think you only kings have power? Stand on a stage and hold the hearts of men in your hands. Make them laugh with a gesture, cry with a word. Make them love you. And you will know what power is. - Jennifer Donnelly
There is nothing wrong in being selfish provided you know where your self interest are. Once you start meditating regularly you will come to a stage where you will realize that selfish action are those which brings peace and welfare to all and not only for yourself". - Subodh Gupta
I think I know where my life went wrong. For all the world's a stage and I'm a lousy actor! - Greg Curtis
Remember that as a teenager you are at the last stage of your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you. - Fran Lebowitz
The willingness to challenge hardships taps the power within human beings to transform even a place of tragedy into a stage for fulfilling one's mission. - Daisaku Ikeda
Good dancers awaken the joy in our hearts, we have seen them ablaze on stage, videos, on our streets, in the theaters, in our homes, schools and they have successfully ignited the love of dancing in our soul. At least, this is the major reason why dancers are born and made. - Paul Bamikole
Significance is not determined by the amount of time on stage but by what you do with the time you get. - Mansur Hasib
A person who wants to know everything eventually comes to a stage where his/her curiosity of knowing everything comes to an end and that is the stage of Enlightenment. - Sangita Pareek
At a stage in life, you learn to talk less. That is, let your works do the talking. Hence, work hard in silence. The evidence will be clear for all to see. - Oscar Bimpong
All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players.They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts... - William Shakespeare
I believe in the possibility of positive change at every age and every stage of life. Your whole life is ahead of you. - Eleanor Brownn
The stage of Creation is a Timeless Marche. The three measures of Nothing, Possibility, and Chaos will eternally ensure that the script continues on. - Lionel Suggs
The Fact That You Have The Ability To Stand On Stage And Sing While You’re Crying Is So Brave. - Demi Lovato
One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music. - Stephen Sondheim
This universe is a dancing stage for consciousness. - Debasish Mridha
I'm at that stage of life where I don't even care of people like me anymore. If you like me, Cool. If you don't, Okay! - Manasa Rao Saarloos
We are all actors, set on the stage of the world, as the curtains open we put on our best performance to this audience of life. - Anthony Liccione
The first stage of ignorance is illusion, due to lack of exposure to reality. The second stage of ignorance is delusion, or the refusal to acknowledge reality. The third stage of ignorance is the rejection of altruism. - Justin K. McFarlane Beau
When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it. - James Brown
You get to know what you should have done better regretfully when you watch others take the stage enthusiastically to do what you should have done better - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
As the adults, we are the ones who set the stage for vitality, love, or disharmony in the home. We set ourselves up for one or the other, and our children take their cues from us. - Gabriel Cousens M.D.
Cherish every moment with those you love at every stage of your journey. - Jack Layton
Picnics are very dear to those who are in the first stage of the tender passion. - Arthur Conan Doyle
Like the Pied Piper, the street entertainer carries his own mystique which cannot easily be transferred to the stage. He seems to have escaped reality, to perform in a time and space where he doesn't necessarily belong. - Edward Claflin
Life is but a walking Shadow, a poor Player That struts and frets his Hour upon the Stage, And then is heard no more; It is a tall Tale, Told by an Idiot, full of Sound and Fury, Signifying nothing." - William Shakespeare
Audience of angels descend in the ambiance reciting praises in your glory, when you wear your dance shoes, when you arrive at the stage and with every step you take beneath your feet heaven moves. That is the power of dance. - Shah Asad Rizvi
If all the world's a stage, I want to operate the trap door. - Paul Betty
They say the world is a stage. But obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines.""Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.""We need more special effects and dance numbers. - Bill Watterson
My thoughts are the dance of my consciousness on the stage of my mind. - Debasish Mridha
I'm a word man. See, there's this theory about the nature of tragedy, that Aristotle didn't mean catharsis for the audience but a purgation of emotions for the actors themselves. The audience is just a witness to the event taking place on stage. - Jim Morrison
The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts. - Charles Darwin
All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players. William Shakespeare - Charmaine J. Forde
NOTORIETY, n. The fame of one's competitor for public honors. The kind of renown most accessible and acceptable to mediocrity. A Jacob's-ladder leading to the vaudeville stage, with angels ascending and descending. - Ambrose Bierce
The stage is not merely the meeting place of all the arts, but is also the return of art to life. - Oscar Wilde
I wiggle my shoulders, I shake my legs, I walk up and down the stage, I hop around on one foot. But I never bump and grind. Why, that's vulgar. I'd never do anything vulgar before an audience. My mother would never allow it. - Elvis Presley
Dance on the stage of life with love in your heart, a smile on your face, and a great vision in your mind. - Debasish Mridha
After you've seen behind the facade of a stage set you can't take the play seriously any more. You can't go backwards and regain your ignorance; you have to move forward. - Zeena Schreck
Creativity is not any accumulated knowledge, coming from past to the present. The stage of creation is a spontaneous flash of intelligence, Energy merging with mind, to create a new beginning. Creativity and meditation are similar, as both are expressions of something beyond mind. - Gian Kumar
As the four girls were taking her father's life, she had tried to rush onto the stage. But two old university janitors held her down and whispered into her ear that she would lose her own life if she went. - Liu Cixin
The Earth Is My Stage And The Sun Is My Spotlight - Joshua Teya
We do on stage things that are supposed to happen off. Which is a kind of integrity, if you look on every exit as being an entrance somewhere else. - Tom Stoppard
Because history is not the background—history is the stage! And you are on the stage! Oh, how sickening is your appalling ignorance of your own times! - Philip Roth
Every stage of life has it's valuable lessons to be learn't - Lailah Gifty Akita
Love is the dance of the spirit on a stage called heart with the songs of mind to satisfy our eternal desires to belong. - Debasish Mridha
A girl’s got to use what she’s given and I’m not going to make a guy drool the way a Britney video does. So I take it to extremes. I don’t say I dress sexily on stage - what I do is so extreme. It’s meant to make guys think: ‘I don’t know if this is sexy or just weird. - Lady Gaga
The intermediate stage between socialism and capitalism is alcoholism. - Norman Brenner
No person wakes up and finds themselves on the world stage. When that happens, it is in the movies. - Bidemi Mark-Mordi
But how can the characters in a play guess the plot? We are not the playwright, we are not the producer, we are not even the audience. We are on the stage. To play well the scenes in which we are "on" concerns us much more than to guess about the scenes that follow it. - C.S. Lewis
Life is a dark stage on which you were born to shine. - Matshona Dhliwayo
You can be a little bit darker and rougher on the stage, partly because when you're in the theater, people have come to see you, and so they kind of know what they're in for. In television, you are sort of sneaking into people's homes. So, I think you can be a little bit darker on stage. - Tina Fey
You will never accept gratitude as a solution to your problems, until you have reached the last stage of grief--acceptance. - Shannon L. Alder
As parents, we have the responsibility and the power to create a foundational love for nutritious foods that will influence our children's choices for decades to come, setting the stage for our children, grandchildren, and future generations to flourish in wellness and health. - Leah Borski
It is the custom on the stage in all good, murderous melodramas, to present the tragic and the comic scenes in as regular alternation as the layers of red and white in a side of streaky, well-cured bacon. - Charles Dickens
No man with a man's heart in him, gets far on his way without some bitter, soul searching disappointment. Happy he who is brave enough to push on another stage of the journey, and rest where there are living springs of water, and three score and ten palms.
At this stage of my life, I've finally come to realize I've learned more from my children than they ever learned from me. - C.J. Heck
The metamorphosis of your life begins with your mental appreciation for the cocoon stage of your journey. The adversities, the struggles, the perils of life are what either destroy your motivation or encourage your transformation to become what you were truly born to be. A WINNER! - DeWayne Owens
The world is a stage and the play is badly cast. - Oscar Wilde
You are as the sun; the world is your stage; even without an audience, shine. - Matshona Dhliwayo
This world is a peaceful stage where we are all villains of this drama and trees are the heroes. - Debasish Mridha
People Power is too often an inverted fairy story - the triumph of innocence coming at the start and the Ugly Sisters of intrigue and ambition coming on stage in triumph for the final curtain. - Mark Almond
When we are young we think our troubles a mighty business that the world is spread out expressly as a stage for the particular drama of our lives and that we have a right to rant and foam at the mouth if we are crossed. I have done enough of that in my time. - George Eliot
PREDILECTION, n. The preparatory stage of disillusion. - Ambrose Bierce
On life's stage for your real life play, always choose the best, most excellent actors for top success. - Mark F. LaMoure
The world's a stage and I'm on it. Better make a good impression out there! - Shannon Mayhew
God's people are the stage upon which His forgiveness becomes visible. They are never more authentic than when they ask for forgiveness and forgive others. - Matt Chandler
Life is a stage, that we all have to go through! - Ari Joseph
When you have a distaste for what is not yours, you have set the stage for what is yours. - Dr Paul Enenche
If all the world's a stage, I suggest you start performing at your best. - Rob Liano
The dollar bills attached to her hips fluttered to the rug of the small square stage, like the first flakes of winter in the Bronx. (Dark City Lights) - Tom Callahan
You have everything inside you, though you sometimes only recognise certain bits relating to the current stage of your path. - Jay Woodman
In the planning stage of a book, don't plan the ending. It has to be earned by all that will go before it. - Rose Tremain
A work is never completed except by some accident such as weariness, satisfaction, the need to deliver, or death: for, in relation to who or what is making it, it can only be one stage in a series of inner transformations. - Paul Valéry
Baseless victimhood is usually the last stage before outright aggression. - Stefan Molyneux
Philosophy is the dance of conscience on a stage called the mind. - Debasish Mridha
She had lost all our memories for ever, and it was as though by dying she had robbed me of part of myself. I was losing my individuality. It was the first stage of my own death, the memories dropping off like gangrened limbs. - Graham Greene
Death is the night sky, the background against which the fleeting fireworks of life are displayed, an empty stage upon which the drama of life is played. - James Rozoff
Life is a disease; and the only diference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. - George Bernard Shaw
Get on stage. A lot. Try stuff. Make your best stab and keep stabbing. If it's there in your heart, it will eventually find its way out. Or you will give up and have a prudent, contented life doing something else. - Raymond Joseph Teller
To stand up on a stage alone with an acoustic guitar requires bravery bordering on heroism. Bordering on insanity. - Richard Thompson
These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye... - Angela Carter
I am glad you are happy--but I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life. - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Being booed off stage is just an applause from ghosts! - Sharon Needles
Permissiveness is the principle of treating children as if they were adults; and the tactic of making sure they never reach that stage. - Thomas Szasz
The world is an arena where things represents things. It is a stage where the same thing is seen from different lenses as a different thing. - Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Stage fright is very common and could be overcomed through step by step processes, but stuttering is a fright that takes time to conquer. - Michael Bassey Johnson
The topics we learn from our four core subjects during our childhood and adolescent stage of our lives help us to understand the norms of common knowledge and take pride of our citizenship. - Saaif Alam
What I find it's a suprise if I can say this or it's not???- People keep digging in the same stuff in the same answers and trying to find something different. Do you get it?TO success there is one formula, the differences is you want sample, people say it in stage complex! - Deyth Banger
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women are merely players. - William Shakespeare
A great magician is as divine as God and his stage is as majestic as the paradise. - Amit Kalantri
Each stage of your lifeis like petals of a flower... unfolding and opening until it comes to full bloom...You will blossom and then you die...But know that this is not your ending. - Summerlyn Guthrie
Every stage of life is unique.At any age and stage of life there are obstacles and opportunities, trials and triumphs. Never allow the negative bring to you to sudden halt.Make the most of the positive opportunities and stay positive. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Take that rage, put it on a page, take the page to the stage, blow the roof off the place. - The Script
A live concert to me is exciting because of all the electricity that is generated in the crowd and on stage. It's my favorite part of the business - live concerts. - Elvis Presley
On stage, I make love to 25,000 people, then I go home alone. - Janis Joplin
The creative person basically has two kinds of jobs: One is the sexy, creative kind. Second is the kind that pays the bills. Sometimes the task in hand covers both bases, but not often. This tense duality will always play center stage. It will never be transcended. - Hugh Macleod
Star in the sky is useless to the world,Star on the stage makes the difference to the world. - Amit Kalantri
I believe that all people from the humanity which are dead. Aren't really dead, they are just out of the stage and they are on the chairs and they are watching the Endless Film. - Deyth Banger
George Macdonald said, 'If you knew what God knows about death you would clap your listless hands', but instead I find old people in North America just buying this whole youth obsession. I think growing older is a wonderful privilege. I want to learn to glorify God in every stage of my life. - Elisabeth Elliot
It isn't what you will do for your children that makes you a great mother or father. It is what you do for God that isn't self serving, which sets the stage for children to learn to care about something other than what is expected. - Shannon L. Alder
Do you believe that our stories were written from before that we are but actors performing on the stage called life with neither rehearsals nor retakes, the dialogues of our own and a fleeting audience or are you someone who pens down his own story? - Chirag Tulsiani
Adolescence is the stage between infancy and adultery. - Unknown
A Star is always a star no matter what stage they are on or at - Rasheed Ogunlaru
As ages passed we the people, were all blinded and misled in their ventures, by the heralds of the past. In the art of suppression apartheid and slavery were born and raised. In the final stage we established our earth as a drain of fuel and the religion of money made his appearance. - Nynke Visser
One interesting thing is that a stage is reached when nothing hurts any more. Things cannot become any worse, finally, for the one who is really depressed. - Patricia Highsmith
Jazz is the refuge of the untalented. When you go to a jazz club, you may notice that no one is enjoying themselves half as much as the people on stage. Jazz is like the theatre, it's what you do when you can't get a real gig.
Aging is not 'lost youth' but a new stage of opportunity and strength. - Betty Friedan
Being himself was more exhausting than impersonating a stage character. - Claire Tomalin
All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed. - Seán O'Casey
Every stage of life is unique.At any age and every stage of life there are obstacles and opportunities, trials and triumphs. Never allow the negative bring to you to sudden halt.Make the most of the positive opportunities and stay positive. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Dreams are like drama, they unfold the story on the stage. - Debasish Mridha
Hope is the dance of the spirit. Mind is the stage and imagination is the music. - Debasish Mridha
The stage lost a fine actor, just as science lost an acute reasoner, when he became a specialist in crime. - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
At this stage I can see most of the men are still primitive about sexual perception and conception. - Baris Gencel
This is an inevitable and easily recognizable stage in every revolutionary movement: reformers must expect to be disowned by those who are only too happy to enjoy what has been won for them. - Doris Lessing
What I wear on and off stage is my mask. You see, a mask doesn't hide you, it exposes you. - Nuno Roque
The wine seems to be very closed-in and seems to have entered a dumb stage. Sort of a Marcel Meursault.
If this were played upon a stage now, I could condemn it as an improbable fiction. - William Shakespeare
When we are born, we cry, that we are come To this great stage of fools. - William Shakespeare
The Church is both organism and organization - Woven together in a beautifully messy dance that stumbles across the stage of a fallen world. - Todd Stocker
Life is in different stages. Every stage of life is the foundation for the next stage of life.Every stage of live must be fully-lived. - Lailah Gifty Akita
Until work has reached its previous stage nympharium privileges are denied to all. - Jack Vance
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