John Galsworthy Quotes

Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

John Galsworthy

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• We're a very iterative company, so we jump on basically all new technology.

  

  Parker Harris
  • Technology
  • New
  • Jump

• There is no chance and anarchy in the universe. All is system and gradation. Every god is there sitting in his sphere.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God
  • Universe
  • Chance

• There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Invest
  • Horizon
  • Beyond

• I don't commit to things unless I have my A-team to do it. And I'm not trying to be cocky, but that shows in my productions. They are top notch!

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Trying
  • Team
  • Shows

• I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • Up
  • Wall
  • Army

• I always say it took me 10 minutes to write 'Cars,' but if I am honest it could have been even less than that - and it has been a really successful song over the years. It is still massively used, in advertising, in films, and people do cover versions of it a lot.

  

  Gary Numan
  • Song
  • Films
  • Advertising

• I don't seek validation outside, not even with the audience. Today they like me, but tomorrow they may hate me. I don't want to be anybody's role model.

  

  Kangana Ranaut
  • May
  • Today
  • Hate

• Western man is schizophrenic.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • Man
  • Western
  • Schizophrenic

• I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Up
  • World
  • Long

• A new era of responsibility is here.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Responsibility
  • New
  • Here

• A sense of humor keen enough to show a man his own absurdities will keep him from the commission of all sins, or nearly all, save those worth committing.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Man
  • Humor
  • Sense Of Humor

• I discovered cosplay because I was going to an anime convention and did some research, and found out people dressed up as characters. I made a very badly put-together costume because I felt this desire to dress up.

  

  Yaya Han
  • People
  • Up
  • Together

• I believe we should work to end all racism in American society and staunchly defend the inherent rights of every person.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Work
  • Believe
  • American

• Most good roles are written for young men. We are fixated on youth. So however much people say there is nothing wrong with being bald, the reality is once the hair is gone, you might not get the parts.

  

  Ian Hart
  • People
  • Good
  • Men

• People give one another things that can't be gift wrapped.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • People
  • Gift
  • Birthday

• Sometimes it takes a brush with eternity - a crash, an illness, some shock to the system - to get you really thinking about what you want to do with your limited time here, and why you're living on this wobbling dirt clod in the first place.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Why

• I would love to spend a year living in New York; I've wanted to do that since I was 18. I'll be really disappointed if I'm 50 and haven't done something like that.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Like
  • Living
  • Disappointed

• The humped bladderwort has yellow, snapdragon-like flowers, and it's actually carnivorous, capable of trapping and eating not just insects but even tadpoles and tiny fish.

  

  Sam Kean
  • Eating
  • Flowers
  • Fish

• You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Evil
  • Stupid

• That children shall be compelled to receive religious instruction which is in antagonism to the wishes of their parents, is what no man with say sense of justice would suggest.

  

  Charles Tupper
  • Children
  • Parents
  • Justice

• We could live at the present day without a Plato, but a double number of Newtons is required to discover the secrets of nature, and to bring life into harmony with the laws of nature.

  

  Dmitri Mendeleev
  • Life
  • Live
  • Nature

• I believe that international terrorism is a modern form of warfare against liberal democracies. I believe that the ultimate but seldom stated goal of these terrorists is to destroy the very fabric of democracy. I believe that it is both wrong and foolhardy for any democratic state to consider international terrorism to be 'someone else's' problem.... Liberal democracies must acknowledge that international terrorism is a 'collective problem.'

  

  Henry M. Jackson
  • Terrorism
  • Warfare
  • Democracies

• Religion was nearly dead because there was no longer real belief in future life; but something was struggling to take its place - service - social service - the ants creed, the bees creed.

  

  John Galsworthy
  • Life
  • Real
  • Future