John Tyndall Quotes
The most fatal error that could be committed by the leaders of religious thought is the attempt to force into their own age conceptions which have lived their life, and come to their natural end in preceding ages.
Quotes to Explore
-
I have always found women difficult. I don't really understand them. To begin with, few women tell the truth.
-
Some of the wives didn't keep up with the program. It started breaking apart during the Apollo days.
-
I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
-
I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
-
I'll tell you, I never thought I'd ever be going into law, and certainly not the same kind of law as my dad.
-
Another argument, vaguer and even less persuasive, is that gay marriage somehow does harm to heterosexual marriage. I have yet to meet anyone who can explain to me what this means. In what way would allowing same-sex partners to marry diminish the marriages of heterosexual couples?
-
I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
-
With all the chaos, pain and suffering in the world, the fact that my adoption of a child from who was living in an orphanage, you know, was the number one story for a week in the world. To me, that says more about our inability to focus on the real problems.
-
I hate facts. I always say the chief end of man is to form general propositions - adding that no general proposition is worth a damn.
-
If you're asking your kids to exercise, then you better do it, too. Practice what you preach.
-
Even philosophers will praise war as ennobling mankind, forgetting the Greek who said: 'War is bad in that it begets more evil than it kills.'
-
Acting was just another part of my life, as it still is today. It's 1 of the 10 things I love doing. It's never just been my life. As cheesy as it sounds, all my eggs were never in just one basket. I had a thousand baskets going on.
-
Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
-
My thoughts are my company; I can bring them together, select them, detain them, dismiss them.
-
I refuse to admit that I am more than fifty-two, even if that does make my sons illegitimate.
-
Man has an innate capacity for violence, but can only justify it in the name of justice.
-
Through pride we are ever deceiving ourselves. But deep down below the surface of the average conscience a still, small voice says to us, something is out of tune.
-
Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
-
When I came to Los Angeles, it was the first time that I ever felt like I belong somewhere. Not because it was wacky, but because people here understood what I felt like to perform, and there were other kids my age who wanted to do it. I didn't get looked at as God, you freak.
-
Life is large. We cannot possibly grasp the whole of it in the few years that we have to live. What is vital? What is essential? What may we profitably let go?
-
Religious people claim that it's just the fundamentalists of each religion that cause problems. But there's got to be something wrong with the religion itself if those who strictly adhere to its most fundamental principles are violent bigots and sexists.
-
France, after the month of May, will share trust with the current leadership of the United States which, on many subjects, has tended to take useful positions in our view.
-
The most fatal error that could be committed by the leaders of religious thought is the attempt to force into their own age conceptions which have lived their life, and come to their natural end in preceding ages.
