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

• 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

• I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

  

  Joanna Lumley
  • Kitchen

• First it was football, then basketball. I still think about going back to college and playing basketball. Another romantic thing was that I wanted to join the Army, but it was only because I loved the uniforms.

  

  Kyle Secor
  • College
  • Football
  • Romantic

• I grew up outside of Boston in a town called Manchester by the Sea, and we spent our summers in Nantucket.

  

  Nat Faxon
  • Up
  • Sea
  • Outside

• I think world creation and monster creation and all of that stuff is exciting as a secondary element of storytelling. When it becomes more important than storytelling, I get very nervous, and you sort of lose me a little bit.

  

  Charlie Hunnam
  • World
  • Important
  • Monster

• Rashness succeeds often, still more often fails.

  

  Napoleon Bonaparte
  • Fails
  • Succeeds
  • Rashness

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

  

  Matthew Arnold