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

• The yogi should meditate on a firm seat, one that is clean - untainted by dirt or unspiritual vibrations of others. The thought or life force emanating from an individual saturates the objects he uses and his dwelling.

  

  Paramahansa Yogananda
  • Life
  • Thought
  • Force

• 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

• Authenticity is everything! You have to wake up every day and look in the mirror, and you want to be proud of the person who's looking back at you. And you can only do that if you're being honest with yourself and being a person of high character. You have an opportunity every single day to write that story of your life.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Life
  • Up
  • Character

• 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

• My position has always been that the way people age and the signs that we show of aging is nature's way of tattooing. It's natural scarification, and the life you lead gives you the symbols and the emblems of your life, the road map you followed.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • People
  • Life
  • Nature

• Men’s life expectancy was one year less than women’s in 1920; today, it is seven years less, yet the federal government has only an Office of Research on Women’s Health.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Life
  • Men
  • Women

• 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

• I thought I might write mysteries for the rest of my life.

  

  Jane Smiley
  • Life
  • Rest

• Like I said, TLC has enough of my life. I have to keep some of it for myself.

  

  Genevieve Gorder
  • Life

• O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes for this marvel! How we have made everything around us bright and free and easy and simple! How we have known how to bestow on our senses a passport to everything superficial, on our thoughts a divine desire for wanton gambling and false conclusions! - how we have from the very beginning understood how to retain our ignorance so as to enjoy an almost inconceivable freedom, frivolity, impetuosity, bravery, cheerfulness of life, so as to enjoy life!

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Life
  • Freedom
  • Desire

• India is a global power and an important partner with whom we are building an intense, broad and enduring relationship.

  

  Pierre Pettigrew
  • Important
  • Power
  • Relationship

• I do like reality TV like 'The Voice.' I enjoyed working there every single day. It was amazing.

  

  Monica
  • Reality
  • Single
  • Amazing

• I suppose, the natural outgrowth about writing about two friends, it becomes about their friendship, and the complexities of it, and the way personality plays off each other, and what they each like to do, separately and together.

  

  Alison McGhee
  • Writing
  • Friends
  • Together

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

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Life