Johan Huizinga Quotes

Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

Johan Huizinga

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• A pregnant woman facing the most dire circumstances must be able to count on her doctor to do what is medically necessary to protect her from serious physical harm.

  

  Barbara Mikulski
  • Woman
  • Serious
  • Medical

• 'SNL' is the first real job I've held for more than a month and a half.

  

  Hannibal Buress
  • Real
  • Job
  • Month

• 'Girls' feels very active and stirring a conversation and controversial, and you can't really ask for more as an actor.

  

  Adam Driver
  • You
  • Actor
  • Conversation

• It's fun to take two topics and mix them into one cartoon.

  

  Walt Handelsman
  • Fun
  • Two
  • Cartoon

• We all live with blinders on. They come with having a personal vantage point.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Live
  • Point
  • Personal

• Golf is about knowledge, and studying another player - more than listening to a teacher - is the best way to get it.

  

  Vijay Singh
  • Knowledge
  • Best
  • Player

• Apparently, Mayella's recital had given her confidence, but it was not her father's brash kind: there was something stealthy about hers, like a steady-eyed cat with a twitchy tail.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Father
  • Confidence
  • Cat

• The windows of my soul are made of one way glassDon't bother looking into my eyesIf there's something you want to know - just ask.

  

  Ani DiFranco
  • Soul

• I try and keep an ear out and keep an open mind and enjoy something where I don't know what the hell is going on inside of it. That's what I really get out of it. Because to me it's new. That's what I get out of it. That joyful feeling of you don't know what's going to happen next.

  

  Joe Strummer The Clash
  • Mind
  • Feeling

• I didn’t want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I’ve tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.

  

  Tyler Perry
  • Life
  • Art
  • Father

• The key to understanding Crowley is the same as the key to understanding the Marquis de Sade. Both wasted an immense amount of energy screaming defiance at the authority they resented so much, and lacked the insight to see that they were shaking their fists as at abstraction.

  

  Colin Wilson
  • Energy
  • Understanding

• It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.

  

  Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Peace

• Segregation was wrong when it was forced by white people, and I believe it is still wrong when it is requested by black people.

  

  Coretta Scott King
  • People
  • Believe
  • Black

• Are these signs of hope, or do we deceive ourselves by wishing them to be?

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Hope

• I think a lot of people thought women's soccer had arrived and it was here to stay and it was going to be huge, but that wasn't realistic. It has progressed slowly.

  

  Christine Sinclair
  • People
  • Women
  • Soccer

• When people blanket a whole class of people with statements, I just think that is unfair to everybody. I could do the same thing about media. I can do the same thing about politicians or lawyers, and they're just never accurate.

  

  Jamie Dimon
  • People

• I wrote about a bird that cleaned a crocodile's teeth. The story was so good that my teacher could not believe that a ten-year-old could write that well. I was even punished because my teacher thought I'd lied about writing it! I had always loved to write, but it was then that I realized that I had a talent for it.

  

  Brian Jacques
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Writing

• To this light, then, would I recommend all, with mine own soul, - to this sure way of salvation.

  

  Elias Hicks
  • Soul
  • Light

• Divorce is expensive. I used to joke they were going to call it ‘all the money’ but they changed it to alimony.

  

  Robin Williams
  • Money
  • Divorce
  • Joke

• One week I was in school and the next I'm at Leavesden Studios in Dumbledore's office reading scenes with Daniel Radcliffe. Weird. And terrifying for such a huge 'Harry Potter' fan.

  

  Evanna Lynch
  • School
  • Reading
  • Scenes

• Once Joe Paterno learned that his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky was showering with a young boy in the Penn State football locker room, he had two choices: think of the child as his own and call police. Or not. He chose the latter.

  

  Christine Pelosi
  • Football
  • Choices
  • Boy

• Not too many people know it, but when I was in junior high, I was a pretty tough kid and was the leader of a street gang. Well, OK, it was less a street gang than an Ecology Club. We were pretty intimidating, though, and had our own meeting room until we got run out of there by a bunch of thugs from the Poetry Society.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • People
  • High
  • Pretty

• I wanted the attention I missed at home, so I became the leader of a gang. That way, I got attention and was recognized as being important. It wasn't a bad gang - you know, in poor districts in New York, there's a gang to every block. We never robbed at the point of a gun; we'd steal potatoes from a grocery store, or crackers.

  

  John Garfield
  • Important
  • Home
  • Bad

• Educators are aware that they can reach the youth only by making use of gang spirit and guiding it, not by working against it.

  

  Johan Huizinga
  • Gang