Irving Babbitt Quotes

Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

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• God who created us has granted us the faculty of speech that we might disclose the counsels of our hearts to one another and that, since we possess our human nature in common, each of us might share his thoughts with his neighbor, bringing them forth from the secret recesses of the heart as from a treasury.

  

  Saint Basil
  • God
  • Nature
  • Thoughts

• J has told me about his past. I know what happened and why. But he is the one person who made me believe in my talent and whatever happened in the past, he's been a wonderful manager to me.

  

  LaToya Jackson
  • Believe
  • Why
  • Past

• There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Change
  • Moral
  • Nothing

• In the future, I'd like to see paleontology as a whole get a lot more quantitative.

  

  Jack Horner
  • Future
  • Like
  • See

• As a successful romantic novelist - one of my publishers is Mills & Boon - I create the sort of male heroes that no woman could fail to adore and few real men could hope to emulate.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Men
  • Real
  • Hope

• Celebrities and 'famous' people are just regular folks. I know, it's a shocking and potentially dangerous statement.

  

  Adam McKay
  • People
  • Know
  • Famous

• Growing up, I was into 'Power Rangers.'

  

  Dacre Montgomery
  • Up
  • Power
  • Growing

• People are basically the same the world over. Everybody wants the same things - to be happy, to be healthy, to be at least reasonably prosperous, and to be secure. They want friends, peace of mind, good family relationships, and hope that tomorrow is going to be even better than today.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • People
  • World
  • Good

• We should always remember that it is by His invitation that we come to His holy house, the temple of the Lord. We should respond to His invitation by being worthy, by being prepared, and by having the temple as a priority in our lives. While in the temple we should act as if we are in His holy presence.

  

  L. Lionel Kendrick
  • Remember
  • House
  • Act

• He who binds his soul to knowledge, steals the key of heaven.

  

  Nathaniel Parker Willis
  • Soul
  • Knowledge
  • Heaven

• I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Win
  • Destiny
  • Winner

• There was a long time where I was an 'artist' in quotes, who had no money. But I guess back then I also never had a girlfriend.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Time
  • Long
  • Money

• My favorite albumn ever is Jeff Buckley's GRACE. I feel a weird unexplainable connection to him.

  

  Rachel Bilson
  • Feel
  • Weird
  • Connection

• I love being a part of something so many people can relate to and enjoy.

  

  Karlie Kloss
  • People
  • Enjoy
  • Part

• My quality of life here in Quebec City is extraordinary.

  

  Patrick Roy
  • Life
  • City
  • Quality

• 'Islamism' itself is such a broad and nearly meaningless word as used by the mainstream Western press, including everything from Turkey's AKP party to al Qaeda.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Party
  • Everything
  • Press

• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

  Walter Lang
  • May
  • Problem
  • Pride

• It's been said that the men in my books have been absent, or weak, or creepy.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Men
  • Said
  • Creepy

• The power of transgression is the archetypal, foundational story of the Bible. We want to break our own codes - sometimes of morality, sometimes of ethics, sometimes of the power structure, sometimes of the institution of marriage - because there is freedom and power in transgression.

  

  Esther Perel
  • Sometimes
  • Break
  • Morality

• They talk about the failure of socialism but where is the success of capitalism in Africa, Asia and Latin America?

  

  Fidel Castro
  • America
  • Success
  • Failure

• The only thing that counts is the right to know, to speak, to think - that, and the sanctity of the courts. Otherwise it's not America.

  

  Edward R. Murrow
  • America

• I feel like what I owe my audience is what I'm most passionate about.

  

  Bruce Hornsby Bruce Hornsby & The Range

• Furthermore, America suffers not only from a lack of standards, but also not infrequently from a confusion or an inversion of standards.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • America
  • Confusion
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