Phillips Brooks Quotes

Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

Phillips Brooks

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• The American Revolution was carried out in the name of the people, and it was supposedly 'We, the people,' who created the government that Americans still live under.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • People
  • Live
  • American

• Science fiction writers foresee the inevitable, and although problems and catastrophes may be inevitable, solutions are not.

  

  Isaac Asimov
  • May
  • Science
  • Problems

• I am aware of the sufferings of women in India, which is also the suffering of women in many, many countries on our planet. My heart is filled with empathy and love for them.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Women
  • Empathy
  • Planet

• I've always used black girls on the runway, because I think they're beautiful. I don't need people to tell me, 'You need to use black girls.' I did for 20 years; it's not a new thing for me.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • People
  • Beautiful
  • Black

• Whatever our bedtime was as kids, we could stay up an extra half hour if we were reading. My parents didn't care as long as I was under the spell of a Stephen King or a Douglas Adams. Now I read in bed. I read at work. I read standing in line. It's like, 'Hello, my name is Nathan and I am a reader.'

  

  Nathan Fillion
  • Up
  • Work
  • Long

• Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

  

  Ian Hislop
  • People
  • Up
  • World

• Everyone agrees to that; but when we come to define truth, dissension starts.

  

  Samuel E. Morison
  • Truth
  • Everyone
  • Define

• There are days when I literally have to eat 17 plates of food - it's intense. It's about moderation. You just need a few bites to get the gist of a dish.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • You
  • Food
  • Need

• I miss people. I miss going anywhere and meeting a random person and saying 'Hi' and having a conversation about life. I love people.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • People
  • Life
  • Miss

• Oh, it is quite possible that none of us in 'Downton' will ever again get the ratings this has had. But from a career point of view, it has opened so many doors.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Career
  • View
  • Doors

• A women knows how to keep quiet when she is in the right, whereas a man, when he is in the right, will keep on talking.

  

  Malcolm de Chazal
  • Women
  • She
  • Man

• There is inspiration all around us.

  

  Kapil Dev
  • Inspiration

• The blogosphere makes it possible to have a sprawling national conversation about the hard times - often among people who would never find each other offline.

  

  Adam Cohen
  • People
  • Find
  • Conversation

• The stars that have most glory have no rest.

  

  Samuel Daniel
  • Nature
  • Rest
  • Stars

• Human beings are at their core defined by what they worship rather than primarily by what they think, know, or believe. That is bound up with the central Augustinian claim that we are what we love.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • Believe
  • Think
  • Human

• When I first started to get into writing, it was via music. I'd generate ideas for songs that would turn into stories, then they'd turn into novels. I was biased toward music.

  

  Irvine Welsh
  • Music
  • Writing
  • Ideas

• No passion in the world is equal to the passion to alter someone else's draft.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • World
  • Passion
  • Communication

• At one point, I was in a place where it didn't feel like it was going to happen, and I was feeling pretty down on myself. But I stuck to it, and now I have a hit comedy on my hands. You've got to keep plugging away at it. If you really believe in yourself, you can definitely make it happen.

  

  Zachary Knighton
  • Believe
  • Pretty
  • Feeling

• Disney has repeatedly shown that it is exceptionally resilient, bolstered by the quality of our storytelling and the strong affinity consumers have for our brands.

  

  Bob Chapek
  • Brand
  • Storytelling
  • Consumer

• Larry only ever wrote one song, and he wrote that with Tony Kaye, I think it was, from Yes.

  

  Neil Innes
  • Song

• You see so many surprising things and you think they’re obvious.

  

  Courtney Milan
  • Think
  • Things
  • Obvious

• Really Edward Teach, Blackbeard, was actually tall, so he was literally larger than life and so he knew that and actually the more you read about him, you realize that he actually respected and knew about the theatricality and he'd rather take a ship by threatening and having the power of his personality and the threat of the oncoming danger to sway the ship to just acquiesce and just give up their cargo and so none of his crew got hurt and they would just take their bounty and he wouldn't have to kill anybody, but of course he earned that reputation, so he was no saint.

  

  Ray Stevenson
  • Hurt
  • Personality
  • Danger

• Coward dogs most spend their mouths when what they seem to threaten runs far before them.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Running
  • Dog
  • Seems

• Duty makes us do things well, but love makes us do them beautifully.

  

  Phillips Brooks