Ralph Adams Cram Quotes
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.Ralph Adams Cram
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People idealize or reminisce about their 20s, but nobody tells you beforehand that it's hard and unglamorous and often very unpleasant.
Zosia Mamet -
You should never say 'D'Brickashaw' and 'bust' in the same sentence. You should never even think that. It should be D'Brickashaw, Pro Bowl, D'Brickashaw, Jets, Super Bowl.
D'Brickashaw Ferguson -
People don't get through to the essence of you right away - it's always the famous 'girl' or the famous 'girlfriend'. I'd rather be known for myself.
Vanessa Paradis -
Practical wisdom is what's called for in situations that have a moral dimension to them.
Barry Schwartz -
Part of the inhumanity of the computer is that, once it is competently programmed and working smoothly, it is completely honest.
Isaac Asimov -
I think great players can play in any year, that's why they're great. A lot of it is down to the mental approach.
Ian Rush
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History is the present. That's why every generation writes it anew. But what most people think of as history is its end product, myth.
E. L. Doctorow -
I'm not a pin-up, thankfully. I'm not suggesting I feel unconfident. I am beautiful to my husband. I am beautiful to my friends. I feel sexy and all those things with the people I love.
Olivia Colman -
The principle of evil in Europe is the enervating spirit of Russian absolutism.
Lajos Kossuth -
I was a little too young to be a hippie.
Gale Norton -
You can't tolerate anybody attempting to threaten or intimidate your body. You must respond with force.
Ta-Nehisi Coates -
Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
Zora Neale Hurston
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You have succeeded in life when all you really want is only what you really need.
Vernon Howard -
More often than not, the experience of shooting the movie has been disappointing and the end product has been a mere shadow of what I hoped it would be. But immersing myself in the story - that's what I like best of all.
Viggo Mortensen -
You have to know you can first. How comes later.
Vanna Bonta -
I'm an expert on surfing the channels, so I'm always able to find something strange. Or I watch C-Span. I can watch a conference on oceanography, or whatever, for hours.
Rafael Vinoly -
After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
Nancy Grace -
Being an actress can be a little like being a girl in the '50s: You're stuck waiting by the phone, hoping that the boy you like will call.
Zooey Deschanel
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The secret of politics? Make a good treaty with Russia.
Otto von Bismarck -
I don't listen to the news. I don't read the newspaper unless it's eccentric information - and the obituaries, of course.
Maira Kalman -
Too bad, Matson thought archly, that George Hoffman didn’t discover more planets in more star systems habitable by us, the frail needs of living, sentient, mentating biochemical upright bipeds which we humans are.
Philip K. Dick -
In the steel industry the corporations generally have accepted collective bargaining and negotiated wage agreements with the Committee for Industrial Organization.
John L. Lewis -
I am writing this under an appreciable mental strain, since by tonight I shall be no more. Penniless, and at the end of my supply of the drug which alone makes life endurable, I can bear the torture no longer; and shall cast myself from this garret window into the squalid street below.
H. P. Lovecraft -
As the power of Christianity declined through the centuries that have followed the Reformation, Calvinism played a less and less important part, while the new philosophies of mechanism and rationalism correspondingly increased.
Ralph Adams Cram