John Henry Newman Quotes

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

John Henry Newman

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• If anything, I was a prodigious eater of everything that was put in front of me. That was probably the only thing my parents wouldn't complain about.

  

  Adam Mansbach
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Complain

• The climate has been changing since there was a climate.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Changing
  • Been
  • Climate

• The best antidote to poverty remains simple - a paycheck. Policies like paid family leave, workplace flexibility and affordable quality childcare can make the difference for two-parent or single-parent working families who struggle to make ends meet.

  

  Madeleine M. Kunin
  • Family
  • Single
  • Simple

• These immigrants have come to our country and blatantly disregarded our laws. We cannot, we should not, reward that. No amnesty. No ability to vote. Get those borders secure, and then deal with that situation.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Country
  • Laws
  • Vote

• Once there was a boy so meek and modest, he was awarded a Most Humble badge. The next day, it was taken away because he wore it. Here endeth the lesson.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Day
  • Taken
  • Boy

• I've got a general callout with the Caribbean world in which I'm interested in helping in any way to get their well-written good stories out to the rest of the world. I am really interested in helping those stories get to a completion and public viewing.

  

  C. C. H. Pounder
  • World
  • Stories
  • Helping

• Readers let me know that they like books that have more to them than meets the eye. Had they not let me know that, I never would have written 'The View From Saturday.'

  

  E. L. Konigsburg
  • Know
  • Never
  • Books

• My own pregnancies were all about me, me, me. My aches, my pains, my swollen feet, and my body that looked like the Michelin Man.

  

  Barbara Park
  • Man
  • Me
  • Feet

• I'm particularly interested in black swan events: unprecedented surprises that destroy the conventional wisdom about how the world works.

  

  Paolo Bacigalupi
  • World
  • Black
  • Wisdom

• Writing is a solitary profession; you are really alone when you write. Then the emotions become well shaped and distinct. But their transition into words must be done deliberately and with rigid artistry.

  

  F. Sionil Jose
  • Writing
  • Done
  • Words

• Life in a Chinese village is much more organised because the Chinese Communist Party has a presence even in the remotest Chinese village - a presence of the kind that no governmental or non-governmental organisation has in Indian villages.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Life
  • Party
  • Chinese

• You just have to do what you know is right.

  

  Daniel Berrigan
  • You
  • Know
  • Right

• Like all of Latin America, Mexico after independence in 1821 turned its back on a triple heritage: on the Spanish heritage, because we were newly liberated colonies, and on our Indian and black heritages, because we considered them backward and barbaric. We looked towards France, England and the U.S., to become progressive democratic republics.

  

  Carlos Fuentes
  • America
  • Black
  • Spanish

• It would be wrong to say that the city of Berlin is not regulated. What I think is more interesting is to what extent a city creates a sort of safe haven for its users, so that people feel confident that the city works on their behalf.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • People
  • Think
  • Interesting

• Believe it or not, there are people who want to be on juries.

  

  Nancy Grace
  • People
  • Believe
  • Want

• Nothing in the world is irreversible, not even capitalism.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • World
  • Nothing
  • Capitalism

• When I was in seventh grade, I was a scrawny boy with no muscles, so I went out for wrestling. My intention was to develop secret wrestling skills so that if I were jumped by a bully, I'd shout, 'Ha!' and he'd be on the ground in a headlock.

  

  W. Bruce Cameron
  • Boy
  • Wrestling
  • Skills

• Cultivating more leaders who reflect our heterogeneous society depends on universities' transparent use of race as one of many factors in an admissions process that is accessible to all.

  

  Wendy Kopp
  • Society
  • Process
  • Reflect

• I can always tell when I'm about to start writing. I go through cycles in reading. When I'm beginning to start to write something, I start reading what I think of as good literature. I read things with wonderful language.

  

  Patricia MacLachlan
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Reading

• The most intelligent hearers are those who enjoy most heartily the simplest preaching. It is not they who clamor for superlatively intellectual or aesthetic sermons. Daniel Webster used to complain of some of the preaching to which he listened. "In the house of God" he wanted to meditate "upon the simple varieties, and the undoubted facts of religion;" not upon mysteries and abstractions.

  

  Austin Phelps
  • God
  • House
  • Simple

• Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Up
  • Think
  • Stadium

• If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

  

  Hermann Hesse
  • Person
  • Part
  • Disturb

• I gave him a compliment! All right, I told him he probably would've made, like, a really expensive slave in the, like, in the olden-timey days.

  

  Sarah Silverman
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Compliment

• If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

  

  John Henry Newman