Carl Clinton Van Doren Quotes
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
Samantha Power
I think I would encourage leaders to start working with communities in order to inoculate angry, young teenagers.
Maajid Nawaz
In the last four years, I heard the same thing over and over again from people: 'We've had enough,' 'Our country is drifting,' 'We've lost our way.'
Ted Yoho
Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds... is not productive.
E. O. Wilson
Things can fall apart, or threaten to, for many reasons, and then there's got to be a leap of faith. Ultimately, when you're at the edge, you have to go forward or backward; if you go forward, you have to jump together.
Yo-Yo Ma
I think if I heard someone else talking about their life, describing all the problems I've had, they'd look like they were through. Done. But there's something about me - I'm smiling. Those things are really not bad enough to put me in a slump. I'm smiling with the opportunity to wake up every morning.
Nas
But I don't want to sing everything out of the side of my mouth, I want people to understand what I mean.
Randy Newman
What we have done, the result of that comes to us whenever it comes, either today, tomorrow, hundred years later, hundred lives later, whatever, whatever. And so, it's our own karma. That is why that philosophy in every religion: Killing is sin. Killing is sin in every religion.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
Larry Brown
Sometimes you lose sight of what's going on around you.
Usain Bolt
If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
Adam Clarke
The real problem is not why some pious, humble, believing people suffer, but why some do not.
C. S. Lewis
A bicycle has transformed my experience of London.
Iain Glen
There were moments on the set when the depth of the cast of 'Dreamgirls' was almost overwhelming to me.
Bill Condon
Took us a great amount of strength to get them into the world, and for them to be in the world. I think that their little spirits, you know, just said, well, we're going to be there. So it makes it very special because of it.
Cheryl Tiegs
Hebrew is my first language, so it's really the most personal and the most simple. When I write in Hebrew, I don't look for sophistication in music; it's just pure emotion that comes out.
Yael Naim
I really believe my greatest service is in the many unwise steps I prevent.
Mackenzie King
Melville brought to the task a sound knowledge of actual whaling, much curious learning in the literature of the subject, and, above all, an imagination which worked with great power upon the facts of his own experience.
Carl Clinton Van Doren
