Jacques Maritain Quotes
In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.
Quotes to Explore
-
I know what to do and I go and execute.
-
You get tough when you grow up unloved. People described me as a boyish girl - rather shy, but I didn't show it. I had an attitude. I was rather wild. I lied a lot because I knew the alternative was to be punished. As I got older I realised I didn't have to lie any more and it was a nice feeling. I could be myself.
-
In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
-
At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
-
The moment you give up your principles, and your values, you are dead, your culture is dead, your civilization is dead. Period.
-
Being a gal, people can be a bit patronizing. 'Oh, look at you using the computer.' They would never say that to a boy. And I don't let them do it to me.
-
It's hard because I think I fall into this in-between space where there's something that's innately feminine about me, and there's also something that's kind of androgynous. I carry myself somewhere in between, and I think my music lends itself to that as well.
-
One can resist the invasion of an army but one cannot resist the invasion of ideas.
-
If I only had a little humility, I'd be perfect.
-
It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
-
If you actually succeed in creating a utopia, you've created a world without conflict, in which everything is perfect. And if there's no conflict, there are no stories worth telling - or reading!
-
I've always felt that the obligation of teachers is to have a huge, broad overview and to provide a foundation course to the students. The long view of history is absolutely crucial.
-
Oh the innocent girl in her maiden teens knows perfectly well what everything means.
-
I'm at the age most people are sending their kids off to college.
-
There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.
-
I think Hispanic community - the values that resonate in our community are fundamentally conservative. They are faith, family and patriotism. Do you know the rate of military enlistment among Hispanics is higher than any demographic in this country? And they are also hard work and responsibility.
-
I'm always glad when people come together to help each other - whether they're raising money for somebody in a bad situation or making a creative piece like a song.
-
I didn't have any friends, and I never went to the class parties.
-
We've got to start making people uncomfortable in themselves and not being comfortable being racist or homophobic or any of that. We've got to cut that out from the inside.
-
I think I had actually served my apprenticeship as a writer of fiction by writing all those songs. I had already been through phases of autobiographical or experimental stuff.
-
You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
-
We have to back each other up no matter what. Defense, you have to do your job, and offense has to do theirs.
-
We need to tell the American public the truth. We need to let them know they're not the only ones struggling.
-
In loving things and the being in them man should rather draw things up to the human level than reduce humanity to their measure.
