John Henry Newman Quotes

A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

John Henry Newman

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• I watch the news, which is its own reality show. I love 'Curb Your Enthusiasm.' I love it because it's funny and because I realize that I'm happier than Larry David.

  

  Garry Shandling
  • Reality
  • Funny
  • Realize

• Futurism eventually got marred by its link to Fascism, but early on, it was totally avant-garde, and I wanted to dream a phantom link from the early futurists to the politically radical Italy of the 1970s, a time of fun, play, subversion - if also violence and mayhem.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Fun
  • Dream

• The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.

  

  Aberjhani
  • Life
  • Society
  • Free

• I'm struggling with what is epic. People decided I was epic - if by epic, do you mean a big, heavy book? 'David Copperfield' is a big book - is it epic? Amount of time covered, length, drama, or story - that's the real appeal - if the story is long you have a better chance of becoming more connected.

  

  Patrick Rothfuss
  • People
  • Time
  • Long

• I can do something else besides stuff a ball through a hoop. My biggest resource is my mind.

  

  Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
  • Mind
  • Something
  • I Can

• Prayer is the key of the morning and the bolt of the evening.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Morning
  • Religion
  • Prayer

• One thinks with awe and longing of this real and extraordinary popularity of hers Edna St. Vincent Millay’s: if there were some poet-Frost, Stevens, Eliot-whom people still read in canoes!

  

  Randall Jarrell
  • People
  • Real

• All that we call human history-money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution, classes, empires, slavery-the long terrible story of man trying to find something other than God which will make him happy.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Long
  • Trying

• We do not stray out of all words into the ever silent; We do not raise our hands to the void for things beyond hope.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Hope
  • Words

• As a human being it is just my nature to enjoy and share philosophy. I do this in the same way that some birds are eagles and some doves, some flowers lilies and some roses.

  

  Alan Watts
  • Nature

• I've long believed that good food, good eating, is all about risk. Whether we're talking about unpasteurized Stilton, raw oysters or working for organized crime 'associates,' food, for me, has always been an adventure.

  

  Anthony Bourdain
  • Good
  • Long
  • Food

• The first task of the Magician in every ceremony is therefore to render his Circle absolutely impregnable.

  

  Aleister Crowley

• Most poor families are living completely unassisted in a private rental market, devoting most of their income to housing. When you meet people who are spending 70, 80 percent of their income on rent, eviction becomes much more of an inevitability than the result of personal irresponsibility.

  

  Matthew Desmond
  • People

• I would say I spend about an hour a day cleansing and moisturising after all of the make-up I've worn on jobs, and on weekends I tend to go bare-faced to give my skin a bit of a break.

  

  Poppy Delevingne
  • Up

• There can be no permanent disfranchised peasantry in the United States.

  

  James A. Garfield

• When you break it all down, my punk rock is my dad's blues. It's music from the underground, and it's real, and it's written for the downtrodden in uncertain times.

  

  Frank Iero My Chemical Romance
  • Music
  • Real
  • Dad

• Movies began as a communal experience. Even though we now watch them as DVD's, sometimes alone on our computers, mostly in the history of cinema it has been a communal experience.

  

  Alison Owen
  • Experience
  • History
  • Alone

• I have this thing called hereditary neuropathy with liability to pressure palsies. It's incredibly rare.

  

  Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

• Anything you can do to stay organized and free up the creative side of your brain is a good thing.

  

  Chuck Hogan
  • Up
  • Good
  • Free

• Susan Campbell has brought Isabella's fascinating forgotten story back to life with the deep research of a born historian and the vibrant readable prose style of a veteran journalist.

  

  Debby Applegate
  • Story
  • Journalist
  • Historian

• You have to have some kind of power of observation, almost like a trained observer.

  

  Billy West
  • Power

• I admire those people who hold on to their elegance in old age but I'd rather have fun.

  

  Heather Graham
  • People
  • Fun
  • Elegance

• A man would do nothing if he waited until he could do it so well that no one could find fault.

  

  John Henry Newman