Phillips Brooks Quotes

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Phillips Brooks

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• Free speech is not a bogus issue. It is an issue.

  

  Wayne Rogers
  • Free
  • Speech
  • Free Speech

• The study of error is not only in the highest degree prophylactic, but it serves as a stimulating introduction to the study of truth.

  

  Walter Lippmann
  • Truth
  • Study
  • Introduction

• When you make as many speeches and you talk as much as I do and you get away from the text, it's always a possibility to get a few words tangled here and there.

  

  Dan Quayle
  • Words
  • Always
  • Talk

• We need to write books that publicists and marketers and booksellers and book club leaders and librarians and readers can get excited about. That have something about them that makes them stand out. That makes them shine.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Book
  • Stand
  • Shine

• Paradoxically, since gay men rarely have gay parents, cultural transmission must come from friends or strangers (a problem since the generations so seldom mix in gay life).

  

  Edmund White
  • Life
  • Men
  • Friends

• I accrued anger from people's low opinion of me and my work, and for the work I might be capable of.

  

  Harrison Ford
  • People
  • Work
  • Opinion

• I don't like being famous - it is like a prison. And driving for Ferrari would make it far worse.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Famous
  • Driving
  • Prison

• I downloaded a Ricky Gervais podcast once at the persistent urging of a friend and found it funny but distracting – if I'm online, I'm surfing, which means I'm distracted from the podcast. So it's a form that doesn't really work for me.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Me

• Natural beauty takes at least two hours in front of a mirror.

  

  Pamela Anderson
  • Beauty
  • Mirror
  • Hours

• It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • Religious
  • Politics
  • British

• A person in my position has to restrain himself.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Person
  • Position
  • Himself

• We all have idols. Play like anyone you care about but try to be yourself while you're doing so.

  

  B. B. King
  • Yourself
  • Doing
  • Be Yourself

• Every man meets his Waterloo at last.

  

  Wendell Phillips

• Mysticism is the realisation of God, of the Universal Self. It is attained either as a realisation of God outside the Mystic, or within himself. In the first case, it is usually reached from within a religion, by exceptionally intense love and devotion, accompanied by purity of life, for only 'the pure in heart shall see God'.

  

  Annie Besant
  • Life
  • God
  • Heart

• I think that it would be less difficult to live eternally than to be deprived of sleep throughout life.

  

  Anton Chekhov
  • Life
  • Live
  • Sleep

• When I was mayor of Tulsa, Tulsa County was in nonattainment of the 1979 ozone NAAQS, so I have seen firsthand the economic impacts associated with the challenges of attainment and the legacy of EPA intervention that continues long after meeting the standard.

  

  Jim Inhofe
  • Long
  • Legacy

• Just strictly from a business standpoint, kids are a liability to landlords, and they actually provoke evictions.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • Business
  • Kids

• I throw 14 parties a week.

  

  Danny Meyer

• For 'Inhuman,' it's a 'chess game' series. You have a lot of pieces moving different ways at once, and it's about what they do on their own and what happens when they collide into one another. It's about long-range planning, new character creation, and trying to really build things.

  

  Charles Soule
  • Different
  • Long
  • Trying

• Online, you can't be scooped. If you are scooped, it's no one's fault but your own.

  

  Jacob Weisberg

• Every time I copy something, I can draw it for the rest of my life. But research is so painful - I mean just opening up a magazine looking for a picture of a car or looking out the window looking for a car is just hard!

  

  Jaime Hernandez
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• That's why, to experience that, you know for a fact that a human being is capable of so much more, because to go to that place and to step outside yourself and observe yourself do these things, while the rest of the world is moving in slow motion, is really incredible.

  

  Marcus Allen
  • World
  • Why
  • Experience

• I got my heart broken. My spirit got shattered and mutilated. I will not be coming back from this. I don’t want to.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Heart
  • Spirit
  • Broken

• Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

  

  Phillips Brooks