Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• You can love more than one person in your life, but things will be different. There'll be a different dynamic. Needs and desires change.

  

  Francesca Annis
  • Life
  • Person
  • Needs

• The life of an actor can be very enviable.

  

  Wallace Shawn
  • Life
  • Actor
  • Very

• You know, I have found out in the course of a long public life that the things I did not say never hurt me.

  

  Calvin Coolidge
  • Life
  • Me
  • Hurt

• I don't have stamina in exercise... but I have it in life.

  

  Salma Hayek
  • Life
  • Exercise
  • Stamina

• The wise man knows how to run his life so that contemplation is Possible.

  

  Gabriel Marcel
  • Life
  • Man
  • Wise

• I have not cared for money, and I enjoy working. Money comes my way. People work hard so they get enough money. Or they work hard so they don't have to work hard later in life. But though I don't need money, I still work hard because I like what I am doing.

  

  Manoj Bhargava
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• I would prefer to live forever in perfect health, but if I must at some time leave this life, I would like to do so ensconced on a chaise longue, perfumed, wearing a velvet robe and pearl earrings, with a flute of champagne beside me and having just discovered the answer to the last problem in a British cryptic crossword.

  

  Olivia De Havilland
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• Environmental concern is now firmly embedded in public life: in education, medicine and law; in journalism, literature and art.

  

  Barry Commoner
  • Life
  • Art
  • Education

• Home life is a foreign environment for most guys. So it's natural to show them being idiots at home.

  

  Patricia Heaton
  • Life
  • Home
  • Environment

• A composer knows that music is written by human beings for human beings and that music is a continuation of life, not something separated from it.

  

  Hanns Eisler
  • Life
  • Music
  • Human

• It's so easy to fall into a comfortable groove in life where you do the things that you like, and because of that, often times, we don't grow or change because we're not pushing ourselves.

  

  Flea Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • Life
  • Change
  • Fall

• Our Yes towards life from the very beginning carries within it the Divine No which breaks forth from the antithesis and points away from what now was the thesis to the original and final synthesis. The No is not the last and highest truth, but the call from home which comes in answer to our asking for God in the world.

  

  Karl Barth
  • Life
  • World
  • God

• Who looks in the sun will see no light else; but also he will see no shadow. Our life revolves unceasingly, but the centre is ever the same, and the wise will regard only the seasons of the soul.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Life
  • Soul
  • Light

• You need a balance in life. You just cannot be all the time on an adrenalin peak. You need to recharge.

  

  Joanne Liu
  • Life
  • Time
  • Balance

• I grew up loving women and without misogyny, rancour or prejudice, totally loved and loving. And no matter what has happened since, I don't think I have treated women in my life very badly.

  

  James Nesbitt
  • Life
  • Up
  • Women

• I sensed that my life was better when I focused on things that were working as opposed to focusing on the long list that goes wrong, but I wanted to know if there was any validity to that.

  

  Deborah Norville
  • Life
  • Long

• I've saved every dime I've made in my life.

  

  Chely Wright
  • Life

• I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody's damned business.

  

  Chester A. Arthur
  • Life
  • May
  • Business

• There is perhaps nothing so bad and so dangerous in life as fear.

  

  Jawaharlal Nehru
  • Life
  • Bad
  • Fear

• For the poor, learning to manage money well is central to improving their lives.

  

  Ann Cotton
  • Money
  • Learning

• I think a lot about our globalized world, our global interconnectedness, and it really saddens me when I see people 'othering,' when I see people who are willing to live narrowly.

  

  Maya Soetoro-Ng
  • People
  • World
  • Live

• God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.

  

  Harold Brodkey
  • God
  • Real
  • Death

• I consider myself a very driven and intense fighter.

  

  Clay Guida

• Life asks not merely what you can do; it asks how much can you endure and not be spoiled.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Life