Charles Hamilton Houston Quotes

Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

Charles Hamilton Houston

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• On the evidence I have on hand at home, social media isn't killing our children. It isn't killing families, either, because the constant long bloody phone calls that parents complained to their teenagers about in decades past are gone.

  

  Warren Ellis
  • Long
  • Children
  • Home

• My children are magical creatures and I love them to death.

  

  Jack Black
  • Children
  • Love
  • Death

• Michael was very specific during rehearsals. When he was pleased, he always had this charming grin.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • Always
  • Charming
  • Rehearsals

• The most disturbing thing, I think, with people that do very morally devious things more and more often is to see that they completely feel that they had no choice in the matter.

  

  Tamzin Merchant
  • People
  • Think
  • Choice

• Thus, in general, in the first instance, the direction of interest in empirical fact will be canalised by the logical structure of the theoretical system.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • First
  • Will
  • Direction

• I believe that people make their own luck by great preparation and good strategy.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Good
  • Great

• Robespierre, however, was not the type of leader finally destined to emerge from the Revolution.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Revolution
  • Leader
  • Destined

• I think that the status that you have in life should be reflected in official documents. If you are married, fine, if you are living with someone, fine, if you are single, fine. We don't want to tell people how to live their lives.

  

  Iain Duncan Smith
  • People
  • Life
  • Live

• Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Religion
  • Punishment

• I realized that I could try to sound like Waylon Jennings, or I could try to be like Waylon Jennings... but it's impossible to do both.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Sound
  • Impossible
  • Try

• I actually happened to be in Haiti right before the earthquake in 2010. I was there already with the organization I work with now, Artists for Peace and Justice, visiting the primary school that I had adopted, the Academy for Peace and Justice in Port-au-Prince. I came back, and within days, the earthquake happened.

  

  Olivia Wilde
  • Work
  • School
  • Peace

• The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

  

  Leslie Stephen
  • Faith

• The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

  

  Anthony Kennedy
  • Truth
  • True
  • Society

• In recent times it just seems that women have been relegated to either romantic roles or fluff pieces. So the appeal, for me, is to make a picture about a real woman.

  

  Clint Eastwood
  • Women
  • Real
  • Picture

• Shun those studies in which the work that results dies with the worker.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Work

• When you’re a charmer the world applauds they don’t know that secretly charmers feel like they’re frauds When you’re a charmer you hate yourself a victim of sideshow hypnosis like everyone else.

  

  Aimee Mann
  • World
  • Hate

• I proclaim with confidence that Britain can get right back into the world competitive race if only we can break free of the collective chains which hold us back. Unlike the socialists, who trust the state, we trust the people. That is why we are the party of freedom.

  

  Margaret Thatcher
  • People
  • World
  • Why

• The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
  • Work

• That's a rule in the business. No tongue. You can't really get into it, otherwise, it's weird. I think that particular scene made his (Adam Brody) girlfriend jealous. There were issues.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Business
  • Think
  • Weird

• Having a United States passport has been an incredible asset, and I hope that will continue to be the case.

  

  Dara Khosrowshahi
  • Hope

• Ildefonse said ponderously: 'If your analysis is correct, we must undertake to secure the future against this pangynic nightmare.'

  

  Jack Vance
  • Future

• When we first met, I was probably six layers down in the military structure, but General McChrystal at that time was a soldier's leader, and he was part of the task force. So everyone developed close relationships.

  

  Chris Fussell
  • Time
  • Military
  • Soldier

• Christianity has always seemed to fight a losing battle against race.

  

  Charles Hamilton Houston