Phillips Brooks Quotes

As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

Phillips Brooks

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• Money can't buy everything, but it can buy most of it. Because of money, I could give my parents a comfortable life.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • Life
  • Money
  • Parents

• What brought the British to the Gambia in the first place - which was bigger than it is now - was trade in ivory because the Gambia had a lot of elephants. They wiped out all the elephants and ended up selling Africans.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Up
  • Now
  • Bigger

• Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • Cool
  • Voice
  • Bold

• I'm not into things that feel like a sequel. There's just something magical about when something happens for the first time.

  

  Nathan Fielder
  • Time
  • Feel
  • First Time

• My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.

  

  J. Michael Straczynski
  • American
  • House
  • Looks

• Privacy is not explicitly spelled out in the Constitution as freedom of speech is in the First Amendment.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Freedom
  • First Amendment

• That which prematurely arrives at perfection soon perishes.

  

  Quintilian
  • Perfection
  • Which
  • Soon

• So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.

  

  E. M. Forster
  • Democracy
  • Criticism
  • Cheers

• I love the Royal Family. The Queen, she's fabulous.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Family
  • Queen
  • Fabulous

• To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Know
  • Forgive
  • Everybody

• One thing I noticed working in the Bronx is that leaders come in the craziest places. They don't always show up at community board meetings. Sometimes it's just the guys on the corner that the boys on the block respect.

  

  Majora Carter
  • Up
  • Community
  • Respect

• I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.

  

  Zoey Deutch
  • Smart
  • Write
  • Own

• I'm a conservative Republican, small-business guy, married to same gal - love of my life - for 36 years. Strong family man, deacon at my church; I believe in America. I know government is not the answer; individual liberty and personal responsibility is the answer.

  

  Randy Weber
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Family

• Bleaching eyebrows makes me crazy.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Crazy
  • Makes

• 'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • People
  • Time
  • Good

• Looking beautiful isn't just about what you apply on your face. It's the little things you do that matter. A combination of a good diet, exercise, healthy habits, discipline, dancing etc. is what my beauty routine consists of. Also, I have no bad habits; I don't drink or smoke. All these contribute to me being fit and looking good.

  

  Madhuri Dixit
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Beautiful

• Laura Bush has the face of my mother when my mother was young. The face, the body, the voice. The first time I saw on TV Laura Bush, I got frozen because it was as if my mother was not dead. 'Oh, Mama,' I said, 'Mama.'

  

  Oriana Fallaci
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Body

• Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.

  

  Adam DeVine
  • Up
  • Kids
  • Tree

• Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.

  

  Brian Tracy
  • Important
  • Success
  • Single

• You, Dad, in the large scheme of things, don't matter. I, Dad, don't matter. We're vectors on the grids of cellular life.

  

  David Shields
  • Life
  • Dad

• I think everyone must love life more than anything else in the world.' 'Love life more than the meaning of it?' 'Yes, certainly. Love it regardless of logic, as you say. Yes, most certainly regardless of logic, for only then will I grasp its meaning. That's what I've been vaguely aware of for a long time. Half your work is done, Ivan: you love life. Now you must try to do the second half and you are saved.

  

  Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• As you emphasize your life, you must localize and define it... you cannot do everything.

  

  Phillips Brooks
  • Life