Derek Bok Quotes

Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

Derek Bok

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• I am a romantic, and I think dates are wonderful. I like quirky and fun things. Like going for a bike ride or for a pedicure together.

  

  Nargis Fakhri
  • Romantic
  • Wonderful
  • Bike

• Not long after 'The Pacific,' I began shooting the comedy 'Larry Crowne,' which was also with Tom Hanks, who also directed and plays the title character.

  

  Rami Malek
  • Long
  • Character
  • Comedy

• Anytime rock and metal can get on mainstream TV at all, it's a good thing.

  

  Eddie Trunk
  • Good
  • Rock
  • Metal

• There are a lot of bad films out there. There's a lot of bad architecture out there, and I think sometimes it takes a lot of time to begin to see what's really good. And I think what the test seems to be is, what really sticks with you. And what really becomes a part of your life.

  

  Nathaniel Kahn
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• Riches do not consist in the possession of treasures, but in the use made of them.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Made
  • Use
  • Riches

• I think it's highly likely that we'll continue to have high-performance graphics capability in living rooms. I'm not sure we're all going to put down our game controllers and pick up touch screens - which is a reasonable view, I'm just not sure I buy into it.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Up
  • High
  • Think

• That's my favorite kind of television, where it's not wrapped up in a pretty little bow. It's like life. You deal with one thing in your life, 500 others rear their head.

  

  Tatiana Maslany
  • Life
  • Up
  • Pretty

• I'm so gullible. I'm so damn gullible. And I am so sick of me being gullible.

  

  Lana Turner
  • Gullible

• Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by all and thought to include all; but now, to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal, it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till, if its framers could rise from their graves, they could not at all recognize it.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Thought
  • Now
  • Independence

• My situation is different from Mark's. I'm not looking for home runs, I'm looking for the playoffs.

  

  Sammy Sosa
  • Different
  • Home
  • Situation

• In the eyes of mercy, no one should have hateful thoughts. Feel pity for the man who is even more at fault. The area and size of mercy is limitless.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Eyes
  • Thoughts
  • Mercy

• The greatest enjoyment possible to man was that which this philosophy promises its votaries-the pleasure of being always right, and always reasoning-without ever being bound to look at anything.

  

  Walter Bagehot

• Here once, through an alley Titanic,Of cypress, I roamed with my Soul - Of cypress, with Psyche, my Soul.

  

  Edgar Allan Poe
  • Soul
  • Titanic

• So this is the difference between telling a story and being in one, he thought numbly, the fear.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • Fear

• 'No matter how far our spiritual culture may continue to progress, no matter how much the natural sciences may grow, becoming ever more profound and more inclusive, no matter how much the human spirit may will to expand, that human spirit will never escape from the majesty and ethical sublimity of Christianity, as it shimmers and shines in the Gospels.'

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • May
  • Culture
  • Spiritual

• Conflict exists only when there are two opposing things: fear and non-fear,violence and non-violence.

  

  Jiddu Krishnamurti
  • Fear
  • Violence

• I don't believe in God but I'm very interested in her.

  

  Arthur C. Clarke
  • God
  • Believe

• Having my law the seventh time disobey'd,I struck him, and dismiss'dWith hard words and unkiss'd,-His Mother, who was patient, being dead.

  

  Coventry Patmore
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Words

• But Satan, the god of all dissension, stirreth up daily new sects, and last of all (which of all other I should never have foreseen or once suspected) he hath raised up a sect of such as teach that the Ten Commandments ought to be taken out of the church, and that men should not be terrified with the law, but gently exerted by the preaching of the grace of Christ.

  

  Martin Luther
  • Men
  • Law
  • Grace

• All sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman.

  

  Patrick Henry
  • Violence
  • Couple
  • Sex

• I often get people that come up to me with the UFC 151 poster with me and Dan on it and ask me to sign it.

  

  Jon Jones
  • People
  • Up

• Changes, cyclic or otherwise, within the solar system or within our galaxy, would seem to be the easy and incontrovertible solution for everything that I have found remarkable in the stratigraphical record.

  

  D. V. Ager
  • Science
  • Easy
  • Records

• Believe that He loves you. He wants to help you Himself in the struggles which you must undergo. Believe in His Love, His exceeding Love.

  

  Elizabeth of the Trinity
  • Believe
  • His Love
  • Undergo

• Freshly minted Ph.Ds typically teach the way their favorite professors taught.

  

  Derek Bok