Joseph Wood Krutch Quotes

Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

Joseph Wood Krutch

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• There's no such thing as a non-final cut director.

  

  Abel Ferrara
  • Thing
  • Director
  • Cut

• As Mayor, I will use my experience to make San Francisco a place where small businesses can thrive.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Experience
  • Small
  • Place

• I think my first hit was probably '24 is a Rubberband Man,' which was my second album. My first project, it was very well received in the Southeast region, all throughout the South and parts of the Midwest. It was very well received, but I didn't get national exposure on my second album.

  

  T.I.
  • Think
  • Man
  • First

• The movies and the parts I'm being offered are becoming better and better.

  

  Vanessa Paradis
  • Better
  • Movies
  • Being

• As frustrating as it is to not have a record come out, I have to make sure that it's worth putting out. I have to be trying to say something, for one. I have to not oversell what I'm trying to say. I can't 'Bono' it.

  

  Sir Isaac Brock KB
  • Trying
  • Something
  • Say

• I grew up reading thrillers. Honestly, I was always drawn to the very detailed ones like Patricia Cornwell. I love details.

  

  Karin Slaughter
  • Like
  • Details
  • Honestly

• Coming from a middle class background, travel was always considered a luxury then, even if it meant going to a relative's place or a religious shrine.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Always
  • Religious
  • Travel

• When it comes to the American dream, no one has a corner on the market. All of us have an equal chance to share in that dream.

  

  J. C. Watts
  • American
  • Dream
  • American Dream

• When it comes to Chinese food I have always operated under the policy that the less known about the preparation the better. A wise diner who is invited to visit the kitchen replies by saying, as politely as possible, that he has a pressing engagement elsewhere.

  

  Calvin Trillin
  • Food
  • Wise
  • Chinese

• I used to play football with a load of lads, and I would be like a secret agent going out with a hat on so they wouldn't see my hair in a bun.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
  • Football
  • Hair
  • Hat

• Within my social circle, there is a large group of people who will take bitcoin as legal tender; like, you can go to them and settle debts in Bitcoin, and they will happily take it.

  

  Naval Ravikant
  • People
  • Legal
  • Bitcoin

• The position of woman has doubtless been elevated through the influence of Christianity, but... it is probably fair to say that most of the great Churches through their teaching and organization have exerted a conservative and retarding influence on the rise of woman to equality with man.

  

  Walter Rauschenbusch
  • Great
  • Organization
  • Equality

• Years from now, people will find our acceptance of the HIV theory of AIDS as silly as we find those who excommunicated Galileo.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • People
  • Silly
  • Acceptance

• The strength of the imagination, its enriching power and excitement, lies in its interplay with reality-physical and emotional.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Power
  • Reality
  • Imagination

• It is an act of evil to accept the state of evil as either inevitable or final.

  

  Abraham Joshua Heschel
  • Evil

• Favor and honor sometimes fall more fitly on those who do not desire them.

  

  Livy
  • Desire
  • Fall
  • Honor

• 'It’s a wonder to me,' said Adams sourly, 'that you don’t simply melt down in the white heat of your brilliance.'

  

  Clifford D. Simak
  • Wonder

• There is a limit to the application of democratic methods. You can inquire of all the passengers as to what type of car they like to ride in, but it is impossible to question them as to whether to apply the brakes when the train is at full speed and accident threatens.

  

  Leon Trotsky
  • Question
  • Car

• I think most people who decide to become a musician have to be prepared for some degree of struggle. It makes the art better if you go through some struggles. To be an artist, in any form, you have to develop some sense of compassion and empathy - it's an important quality for everyone to have, on a human level. But I think, as part of our job, you have to be able to do that, so suffering, tends - if you allow it - to let you look on the bright side. It will help with those senses.

  

  Reeve Carney
  • People
  • Important
  • Artist

• And being away and not performing for a long time and really connecting with my audience for a long time, I have a great responsibility to myself and to them to do it exactly the way the process was when I was young.

  

  Jackie DeShannon
  • Time
  • Great
  • Long

• I’m trying to learn more about international law to understand why we don’t have better solutions for conflict - for dictators or aggressors that are hurting or raping children or using them as child soldiers. Why can’t we have an international community handle these things in a swift, efficient manner?

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Children
  • Trying
  • Why

• I don't have any tattoos but I've thought about getting Ernie, from Bert and Ernie, on my earlobe. He made a big impression on me as a kid. And I have pretty big earlobes.

  

  J Mascis
  • Pretty

• Only an armed people can be the real bulwark of popular liberty.

  

  Vladimir Lenin
  • People
  • Real
  • Liberty

• Nature takes no account of even the most reasonable of human excuses.

  

  Joseph Wood Krutch
  • Nature
  • Human
  • Excuses