Irving Babbitt Quotes
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
Quotes to Explore
-
I suppose Spotify is a good thing. The ads are quite annoying, but a lot of people seem to like it and use it. I don't myself, but it seems like a good idea, and the labels are getting a huge amount of money off it, but the artists aren't, so that must be good for them... but not us.
-
'Skins' is about a group of teenagers in Bristol, and it's all about what they get up to and all the different things they do. I think it's a good show because it's come from a very real place, and there's a lot of young people involved in the writing.
-
Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
-
For 'Breaking Bad,' people were with Walter White for 99% of that show, even though that guy is a monster.
-
I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.
-
I always wanted to be honest with myself and to those who have had faith in me.
-
Leadership means setting a moral tone.
-
People love to be told what they know already.
-
The priesthood is a marriage. People often start by falling in love, and they go on for years without realizing that love must change into some other love which is so unlike it that it can hardly be recognized as love at all.
-
People have got to get together and work together. I'm tired of the kind of oppression that white people have inflicted on us and are still trying to inflict.
-
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
-
Growth should take care of the fear of job losses. People will be challenged to do different things. For people who are not up to it, purely based on objective assessment, that's a different issue, which, you do it anyway.
-
People thought we were a joke because we got noticed so fast.
-
There's very few people - like Shakespeare - who, no matter what, were gonna do what they did. For the rest of us, there's a lot of events that have to happen in order for things to end up the way they are.
-
People don't blame the act of driving for auto accidents.
-
I'd like it if people thought I was Jewish looking.
-
Our young people look up to us. Let us not let them down. Our young people need us. Saving them will make heroes of us all.
-
My evening really begins when I take a long, hot bath. I light a candle, and I turn on the news and try to catch up. It's when I can breathe from the day to the night, and that means a lot to me.
-
I'm not on Facebook. I'm not on Twitter. I know a lot of celebrities who go around complaining how little privacy they have. And then my question to that is always, 'Well, how much of yourself are you putting out there?'
-
I always knew that one day Smalltalk would replace Java. I just didn't know it would be called Ruby.
-
The other states look to New York for the progressive direction. New York made a powerful statement [legalizing marriage equality], not just for the people of New York, but for people all across this nation.
-
I was a dramatic kid. I was always like, 'Watch me put on my play, Mom and Dad! You have to watch me put on all these outfits and do this play!' But my family is very academic and straightforward and normal Midwestern people, so the idea that I could act as an actual job wasn't really there.
-
This sounds horribly pretentious, but I like to think that if music hadn't existed, I could have invented it.
-
The democratic idealist is prone to make light of the whole question of standards and leadership because of his unbounded faith in the plain people.
