Matthew Arnold Quotes

The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.

Matthew Arnold

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• The barometer for judging the character of people, in regard human rights, is now those who consider themselves gay, homosexual, lesbian. The judgment as to whether you can trust the future, the social advancement - depending on people - will be judged on where they come out on that question.

  

  Bayard Rustin
  • People
  • Character
  • Future

• I have absolutely no idea about space exploration. I'm a software guy. But because I'm a non-expert, I've been able to bring the software concept of modularity into the space sector, which was never done before.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Done
  • Guy
  • Space

• I think Stalin was afraid of Roosevelt. Whenever Roosevelt spoke, he sort of watched him with a certain awe. He was afraid of Roosevelt's influence in the world.

  

  W. Averell Harriman
  • World
  • Think
  • Influence

• I come with bad genetics, personally.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Bad
  • Personally
  • Genetics

• I rejected the armed struggle because, as a Christian, I am committed to a nonviolent and peaceful struggle. But people take their own initiatives, because it is a Lebanon type of situation here.

  

  Mangosuthu Buthelezi
  • People
  • Christian
  • Struggle

• If I didn't have the wrestling name that I have, I wouldn't have gotten the financial contract that I got with Strikeforce or the long-term contract or the television contract. That's all because of wrestling.

  

  Daniel Cormier
  • Long
  • Financial
  • Television

• When women make their image about youth and sexuality, and not about intellect, that's kind of a dead-end road. So I think it's a combination of self-entrapment and entrapment by society.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Women
  • Society
  • Road

• Labor Day is devoted to no man, living or dead, to no sect, race or nation.

  

  Samuel Gompers
  • Man
  • Day
  • Race

• Well, there are other aspects, I still command very good support in the party.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Good
  • Support
  • Party

• The reward of a thing well done is having done it.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Done
  • Reward
  • Well Done

• When I started the business, I hardly went home. I became very driven about work and about my career.

  

  Calvin Klein
  • Work
  • Home
  • Business

• Gold medals aren't really made of gold. They're made of sweat, determination, and a hard-to-find alloy called guts.

  

  Dan Gable
  • Sports
  • Gold
  • Determination

• The place was crawling with youngsters. It was good, because the kids were good. I can't make a general assumption. Again, you're probably getting, as a general theme from me, that I don't make a lot of broad, sweeping rules about movies.

  

  Adam Arkin
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Movies

• It's perhaps fitting that I write this introduction in jail.

  

  Abbie Hoffman

• ‘Are you sure?’ I said that sure was just what I wasn’t anything but.

  

  P. G. Wodehouse

• People understand the meaning of eating lies in the nourishment of the body only when they cease to consider that the object of that activity is pleasure. ...People understand the meaning of art only when they cease to consider that the aim of that activity is beauty, i.e., pleasure.

  

  Leo Tolstoy
  • People
  • Art
  • Lies

• Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.

  

  Marie Curie
  • People

• Indeed, proof that a given condition always precedes or accompanies a phenomenon does not warrant concluding with certainty that a given condition is the immediate cause of that phenomenon. It must still be established that when this condition is removed, the phenomen will no longer appear.

  

  Claude Bernard

• Obit anus, abit onus.

  

  Arthur Schopenhauer

• It is critical that kids start to learn the value of money, short-term and long-term saving and budgeting at an early age.

  

  Alexa Von Tobel
  • Long
  • Money
  • Kids

• But I'm very happy to work within tight parameters, and when you know you have an actor for two days, and you have to get that work done in two days, that focuses the mind wonderfully.

  

  John Crowley
  • Work
  • Mind
  • Done

• The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • People

• I'd always wanted to do something about the Second World War, but I didn't want to do another combat film, whether it was air, land, or sea.

  

  Michael Apted
  • World
  • Wanted
  • Second

• The governing idea of Hellenism is spontaneity of consciousness; that of Hebraism, strictness of conscience.

  

  Matthew Arnold