Christopher Dawson Quotes
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.Christopher Dawson
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
R. Kelly -
We talk about these legendary fighters, talk about how they had hundred-something fights, hundred-something victories... but when you look at the history books, I still beat more world champions than any fighter in history.
Floyd Mayweather, Jr. -
Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.
Nadine Gordimer -
State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
Adam Cohen -
My father was a railroad man his entire life; 43 years for Southern Railroad.
Nancy Grace -
My mother was madly adventurous. My father was an actor - he worked with Gielgud - and my mother came from a very wealthy family. She definitely wasn't meant to marry an actor, but she eloped with him one lunch-time.
Francesca Annis
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I'm very excited every time I'm at Augusta National. It's such a beautiful and fabulous golf course.
Yani Tseng -
I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.
Oliver Sacks -
I like restraint, if it doesn't go too far.
Mae West -
I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
Harlan Coben -
I love all music. Right now I am loving Josh Grobin and Kelly Clarkson.
Kaley Cuoco -
I remember once giving my dad some drawings and writings and said, 'If you could just give these to the publisher, that would be great.' And I was about five!
Sally Hawkins
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
Yoko Ono -
It's very strange that you condemn me as a terrorist at the same time as you call on me to help you combat terrorism in Iraq and elsewhere. It doesn't make sense!
Walid Muallem -
Gas consumption is growing everywhere.
Vagit Alekperov -
We must go through life so inconspicuously that Fate does not notice us.
W. Somerset Maugham -
Growing up my dad was like 'Zach, you have a great last name: Galifianakis... Galifianakis... Begins with a 'gal', ends with a 'kiss''... I'm like 'That's great, Dad. Can we get it changed to 'Galifiana-fuck' please?'
Zach Galifianakis -
Wo Politik ist oder Oekonomie, da ist keine Moral.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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Evil has no substance of its own, but is only the defect, excess, perversion, or corruption of that which has substance.
John Henry Newman -
The environment changed with Martha Stewart and Enron.
Steve Martin -
No matter how much women prefer to lean, to be protected and supported, nor how much men desire to have them do so, they must make the voyage of life alone, and for safety in an emergency they must know something of the laws of navigation.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton -
Examining other people's motivations, other people's language and other people's way of interacting is much more fascinating to me than spending a lot of time worrying about my own. I've said, 'What other people think of me is none of my business.'
Beth Broderick -
He who is sorrowful can force himself to smile, but he who is glad cannot weep.
Selma Lagerlof -
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.
Christopher Dawson