Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don't want that no more. I like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I'm really about.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • People
  • Time
  • Music

• If I was to do anything besides acting, I would be a fireman or a beat cop. I'd do a regular job.

  

  Manny Montana
  • Job
  • Acting
  • Beat

• I am a pop culture person. And car people have clearly contributed to pop culture, which is how I knew about purple French tail lights and 30-inch fins without exactly knowing what they were.

  

  Rachel Sklar
  • Culture
  • Car
  • Purple

• People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • People
  • Same
  • Courtesy

• I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.

  

  T. J. Miller
  • Kind
  • Morality
  • Mortality

• R. Kelly is a thing on TV, but nobody knows Robert and what he's been through.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Been
  • Nobody
  • Through

• I do respond well to a director, a teacher - someone who doesn't accept mediocrity.

  

  J. K. Simmons
  • Teacher
  • Accept
  • Mediocrity

• I'm a first - I was the first person in my family born in the United States. My mom is from Croatia, and my dad is from Iran. They met at music school in Belgium. I grew up as a pianist. I was really interested in piano and sort of discovered that I was a writer when I was about 13 and started writing.

  

  Ottessa Moshfegh
  • Up
  • Music
  • Writing

• I run about four to five miles, three days a week. I have four young children, so pretty much the only time I can get away is real early in the morning.

  

  Kai Ryssdal
  • Time
  • Children
  • Real

• When you're doing a Broadway show, you have no free time.

  

  Maggie Grace
  • Time
  • Free
  • Doing

• On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Simple
  • Acting
  • Stage

• We're all trying to be Beyonce and Sheryl Sandberg at the same time.

  

  Rachel Bloom
  • Time
  • Trying
  • Same

• Woman are complex creatures.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Woman
  • Creatures
  • Complex

• The more we desire for that which is superfluous, the more we meet with difficulties; our strength and possessions are spent in unnecessary things, and are wanting when required for that which is necessary.

  

  Maimonides
  • Desire

• The bright old day now dawns again; the cry runs through the land,In England there shall be dear bread-in Ireland, sword and brand;And poverty, and ignorance, shall swell the rich and grand,So, rally round the rulers with the gentle iron hand,Of the fine old English Tory days;Hail to the coming time!

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Time
  • Hand
  • English

• One night, I wrote down all the things I was waiting to do with my little granddaughter, and it became a book, 'I Already Know I Love You.' It was one of those really lovely things in life.

  

  Billy Crystal
  • Life
  • Book
  • Night

• You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

  

  Amin Maalouf
  • History
  • Question

• I believe in a higher power and I believe in good and bad, right and wrong. You sleep in the bed you make.

  

  Leif Garrett
  • Good
  • Believe
  • Power

• Our shows today are better and funnier than they've ever been.

  

  Dick Smothers
  • Today

• It is easy to say we believe in God as long as we remain in the little world we choose to live in; but get out into the great world of facts, the noisy world where people are absolutely indifferent to you, where your message is nothing more than a crazy tale belonging to a bygone age, can you believe God there?

  

  Oswald Chambers
  • People
  • World
  • Great

• I come from a theater background, so usually, at the start, you know what happens and where the character goes and everything. But with TV, it's really unpredictable.

  

  Kimiko Glenn
  • Character

• I am not at their orders, but at those of Nature! My confreres doubtless have their reasons for working as you have said. But in thus doing violence to nature and treating human beings like puppets, they run the risk of producing lifeless and artificial work...

  

  Auguste Rodin
  • Work
  • Nature
  • Violence

• You are more likely to be overweight if your friend's, friend's friend is overweight than if your parents are overweight.

  

  Mark Hyman
  • Parents
  • Friend

• No character is ultimately tested until it has suffered.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Character