Irving Babbitt Quotes

The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

Irving Babbitt

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• I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Dark
  • Magic
  • Mood

• Perhaps because my relationship with my father went through such a long, bumpy time, it's been very important for me to work to try to keep lines of communication open between my sons and myself to try to avoid my father's mistakes. At least if you're making mistakes, make different mistakes.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Time
  • Work
  • Different

• The growth model China has relied on for the last 30 years - one predicated on low-cost exports to the rest of the world and investment in resource intensive heavy manufacturing - is unlikely to serve it well in the next 30 years.

  

  Gary Locke
  • World
  • Rest
  • Growth

• Well, it's still another two-day competition, so it's really important to show that you're ready. Every meet is really important right now. You've got to keep showing you can hit.

  

  Carly Patterson
  • Important
  • You
  • Competition

• I would bump A Tribe Called Quest in my car all day.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Day
  • Car
  • Tribe

• If you're on a road trip, you need driving music.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Music
  • Road
  • Driving

• I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

  

  Vida Blue
  • Kids
  • Nice
  • Myself

• All I've done all my life is disobey.

  

  Edith Piaf
  • Life
  • Done
  • My Life

• Whenever you get to win, you feel the satisfaction of all of your hard work, all the sacrifices, all the blood, sweat and tears. It feels right and makes you realise that you are really doing the right thing.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • Work
  • Win
  • Tears

• Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.

  

  F. Scott Fitzgerald
  • People
  • Chance
  • Luck

• You've never seen a Columbine done by a black child. Never. They always say, 'We can't believe it happened here. We can't believe it's these suburban white kids.' It's only them!

  

  Van Jones
  • Believe
  • Done
  • Kids

• I was, like, a total cliched '80s child. I had Barbies, obviously, as well as My Little Ponies and Cabbage Patch Kids, but I used to destroy them. I used to draw all over their faces and cut off their hair.

  

  Natalie Portman
  • Kids
  • Hair
  • Child

• I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Truth
  • Said
  • Will

• Writing, film, sculpture, music: it's all make-believe, really.

  

  Kate Bush
  • Music
  • Believe
  • Writing

• The sleeplessness is proven; it eradicates your memory.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • Memory
  • Your
  • Proven

• I didn't go to law school to become a lawyer, per se - let's just say I was leaning in to some strong suggestions from my parents - but my nebulous goals of someday becoming a writer were just that, nebulous.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • School
  • Parents
  • Strong

• I'll never get a part in a huge action blockbuster.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • Action
  • Never
  • Get

• I remember people who'd had a lot of hardship during the war. They'd thought we'd won.

  

  Barbara Castle
  • People
  • Remember
  • War

• In the West, if a city faces financial difficulties, it'll go bankrupt. But in China, cities will be subsidised by the Ministry of Finance. So some small- and medium-sized cities aren't worried about going bankrupt. They figure the central government will help them out.

  

  Wang Shi
  • Help
  • Small
  • City

• I never watched reality shows. I was obviously very aware of them because they're everywhere, but I was not somebody who watched them.

  

  Constance Zimmer
  • Reality

• The reason why the world lacks unity, and lies broken and in heaps, is, because man is disunited with himself.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • World
  • Why
  • Man

• It seems that sin is geographical. From this conclusion, it is only a small step to the further conclusion that the notion of 'sin' is illusory, and that the cruelty habitually practised in punishing it is unnecessary.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Small

• The papacy again, representing the traditional unity of European civilization, has also shown itself unable to limit effectively the push of nationalism.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Unity
  • Limit
  • Nationalism