Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

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• It is shallow people who think beauty is frivolous or excessive. If you are bringing beauty and god, you are enriching the country. Rice feeds the body, books feed the mind, beauty feeds the soul. It is one thing I can really be proud of and stand tall in the world.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • People
  • World
  • God

• I mean, I think we're put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with. I don't think there's anything you can do this way or that way to change anything.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Earth
  • Change
  • Destiny

• A good stand-up, you lead the audience. You don't kowtow to the audience. Sometimes the audience is wrong. I always think the audience is wrong.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Up
  • Good
  • Think

• The Asian nation's oil demand is expected to grow this year by 800,000 barrels per day and represents more than one-third of the total growth in global demand, according to the Energy Information Agency.

  

  Gary Miller Bad Brains
  • Energy
  • Day
  • Growth

• I've never been the type of person to jump up and throw out the album without it being what it's supposed to be.

  

  Raekwon
  • Up
  • Never
  • Jump

• In boxing you never know who you're going to face in ring.

  

  Manny Pacquiao
  • Know
  • Never
  • Boxing

• We expect 'Narcos' will be an enormous success throughout everywhere in the world and maybe out-index in Latin America, given the Brazilian star and Brazilian director and heavy Latin American cast and that we shot the show entirely on location in Colombia.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • World
  • American
  • America

• Eurasia is home to most of the world's politically assertive and dynamic states.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • World
  • Home
  • Most

• I think in life, if you continue to challenge yourself, you can pride yourself in what you continuously accomplish.

  

  J. R. Martinez
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Pride

• I can be very ordinary looking.

  

  Rachel Tucker
  • Looking
  • I Can
  • Ordinary

• Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Good
  • Write
  • Page

• One difficulty in making the Senate work the way it was intended is that America's electorate is increasingly divided into red and blue states, with lawmakers representing just one color or the other.

  

  Olympia Snowe
  • Work
  • America
  • Color

• When we talk about 9/11 and 26/11 - which is the shorthand for the Mumbai attacks in 2008 - we're talking about the most successful terrorist attacks in history. When you start trying to study the most successful event of its kind, it actually doesn't make for great fiction because there isn't the kind of failure in it that fiction thrives on.

  

  Karan Mahajan
  • Great
  • Trying
  • History

• Ever since I was little, my mum used to choose an outfit for me and lay it on the bed so I'd know what I was wearing the next day. I never went to a uniformed school, so I always had an outfit – and I never really grew out of that, I don't think.

  

  Paloma Faith
  • School
  • Day
  • Always

• When clients come to my design agency and say 'I want to be the Apple of this or that,' we say 'Okay, are you ready to be the Steve Jobs?' Few are up to the task.

  

  Yves Behar
  • Up
  • Want
  • Design

• Force-backed humanitarianism, which relies on rational influence over events in other countries, may have been a more feasible project in the bipolar era of the Cold War, with its relatively defined and stable web of alliances and proxies.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • May
  • War
  • Cold

• I have yet to meet a carnivore who doesn't love a sausage roll.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Love
  • Carnivore
  • Doesn

• I do believe in soulmates and happy/successful marriages. No marriage can be happy 24x7 for 365 days. Both partners have to make the relationship work, is what I believe in.

  

  Kajol
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Happy

• Act in such a way that you treat humanity, whether in your own person or in the person of any other, never merely as a means to an end, but always at the same time as an end.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • Humanity
  • Person
  • Same Time

• "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day," which I actually recorded on "Quality Street" because I don't think anyone has ever covered it before. You hear it every single Christmas, and it is a great record. That's by Wizzard. It is a really great record, but I don't think anyone's ever covered it before, so I had to go it doing it differently. It's quite different from how the original goes.

  

  Nick Lowe Brinsley Schwarz
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Wish

• To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catch them, to being chased after and making sure I ran slow enough that I did get caught, it was 180 degree turn. It was being given the keys to the candy store.

  

  Paul Stanley Kiss
  • Girls
  • Chubby
  • Candy Store

• If you look at the Bible as a whole, it's redemptive and beautiful, and it's God's love story to mankind.

  

  Tom Shadyac
  • Beautiful
  • Stories
  • Mankind

• A person wrapped up in himself makes a small package.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Person
  • Package