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

  

  Jack Black
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• And from a military school which taught me that to fit into society, you can't just do anything you damn well please because it will suit you. And that it's much better to be with the winners than it is with the losers.

  

  Sam Donaldson
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• If you took ISIS' oil, that would not stop them. It's not their only source of revenue. It would be a setback, but it would not stop them.

  

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

  

  Madeleine Stowe
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• 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
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• 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
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• 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

• Without community events like NewFest, I don't think we'd have a queer cinema in America.

  

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

  

  Madonna Breakfast Club
  • Religion
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• 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
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  • 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
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• 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

• I consider myself a very lucky actor that, approaching 60, I'm still employed and employable.

  

  John Lithgow

• Writers and travelers are mesmerized alike by knowing of their destinations.

  

  Eudora Welty
  • Destination
  • Traveler
  • Mesmerized

• I looked around and couldn't believe no one has written a show about women and eating. It's the biggest issue women have.

  

  Lisa Lampanelli
  • Believe
  • Women

• One of my most exciting Saturday nights was just me and a bottle of wine and a crochet book.

  

  Jessica Pare
  • Book
  • Wine
  • Saturday

• I'm not panicking, and I'm not scared, I've been through the Gulf War, the Asia crisis, and the Russian crisis.

  

  Al-Waleed bin Talal
  • War

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

  

  Charles Hamilton Houston