Irving Babbitt Quotes

The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

Irving Babbitt

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• I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Success
  • Road

• A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

  

  Abba Eban
  • Movement
  • Elegance
  • Posture

• I do most of my reading on the train ride to and from work. But I always have a book in my handbag so that I can read at any time, anywhere.

  

  Randa Abdel-Fattah
  • Time
  • Work
  • Book

• There is definitely a way in which women are raised to be less proactive, less business-oriented, and less willing to jump into creative no man's land. I think media has more of an influence on how we perceive gender identity than anything else.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Women
  • Business
  • Man

• No sensible author wants anything but praise.

  

  A. A. Milne
  • Author
  • Praise
  • Wants

• One of the things Kuhn said about normal science is that people 'expect' things to be discovered.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • People
  • Science
  • Said

• I'm an actor in between jobs right now, so I kind of live the life of a 7-year old.

  

  Aaron Yoo
  • Life
  • Live
  • Kind

• Service to others seems the only intelligent choice for the use of wealth.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • Service
  • Intelligent
  • Choice

• My mum always liked poetry, and she had pictures on the wall, so there was this visual stuff around.

  

  Gary Hume
  • She
  • Always
  • Poetry

• It's not necessary that every film has to hit Rs 100 crore box office, or the Rs 50 crore budget. If the film makes double of its project budget, we consider that a hit, and that also means that the film is in profit.

  

  Nawazuddin Siddiqui
  • Project
  • Budget
  • Box

• Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Mother
  • Someone
  • Biology

• Even Gaddafi's adversaries assure us that he stood out for his intelligence as a student; he was expelled from high-school for his anti-monarchic activities. He managed to enroll in another high-school and later graduated in law at the University of Benghazi at the age of 21.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • School
  • High
  • Age

• I will only think of settling down after Salman Khan, the other most eligible bachelor, plans to settle down. We are eligible bachelors, but he's the rock star, so let him get married first; then I'll think about myself.

  

  Yuvraj Singh
  • Think
  • Myself
  • Rock

• When I first started out in music, I was so negative. I was knee-deep in the streets. Then my friends started going to jail. They said, 'Boy, you better start taking this seriously; you got a chance to do something with your life.' That's when I realised I had to focus. The music led to the acting.

  

  Ice T
  • Life
  • Music
  • Friends

• I don't have a competitive bone in my body, so the last thing I want to do is be competing with people.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • People
  • Want
  • Body

• It's hardly even noticeable that so many artists, designers and architects live here. It isn't reflected in the cityscape or in the museums. Many of the artists, for example, exhibit around the world, just not in Berlin.

  

  Olafur Eliasson
  • World
  • Live
  • Example

• Being able to breathe underwater would be sweet.

  

  Cameron Bright
  • Sweet
  • Breathe
  • Underwater

• I was with the CIA for only three years. I worked in the Directorate of Operations, which is now called the National Clandestine Service. It's the part of the organization where the spies live. I didn't have much experience beyond the training.

  

  Barry Eisler
  • Live
  • Experience
  • Training

• She gave the lie to the European superstition - chiefly a missionary superstition - that the women of the East are downtrodden.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Women
  • She
  • Missionary

• A popular Government without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a Prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy, or perhaps both. Knowledge will forever govern ignorance: And a people who mean to be their own Governors, must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.

  

  James Madison
  • People
  • Power
  • Knowledge

• I thank God every day that there was no YouTube or Twitter when I was a teenager. I would have had a channel, and it would have been mortifying.

  

  Katherine Ryan
  • God
  • Teenager

• Chrysler builds great cars.

  

  Lee Iacocca
  • Great
  • Cars
  • Builds

• I think women like to laugh, to have doors opened for them, to have a man walk behind them when they're going up steps, and in front of them when they're going down steps. As chauvinistic as that may sound, it's in my bones.

  

  Harry Connick, Jr.
  • Laughing
  • Bones

• The humanitarian lays stress almost solely upon breadth of knowledge and sympathy.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Knowledge
  • Stress
  • Sympathy