Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• Divorce isn't the child's fault. Don't say anything unkind about your ex to the child, because you're really just hurting the child.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • You
  • Child
  • Divorce

• I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'

  

  Taran Killam
  • Because
  • Fan
  • Big

• I want to serve chess through games, books that are works of art. I would like to bring the game closer to many people all over the world.

  Garry Kasparov
  • People
  • World
  • Art

• I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.

  

  Marat Safin
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Achieve

• I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.

  

  Manu Bennett
  • Kid
  • Dancing
  • Australia

• The first time someone tried to share the Gospel with me, I naively explained that I was Jewish and born in Israel, thank you... This was a big mistake. In certain parts of Christian America, admitting I was an Israeli-born Jew turned me into walking catnip.

  

  Hanna Rosin
  • Time
  • America
  • Christian

• Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.

  

  Larry J. Sabato
  • American
  • Party
  • System

• I think back to the 1990s, when I joined the Army, and all those peacetime years that we had, thinking, 'Will we ever go into combat?'

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Thinking
  • Think
  • Army

• I look formidable.

  

  Vin Diesel
  • Look
  • Formidable

• The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.

  

  Dan Pink
  • People
  • Me
  • Economist

• What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

  

  Tahar Ben Jelloun
  • World
  • War
  • End

• I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.

  

  Laura Linney
  • Hope
  • Relationship
  • Our

• If we work so hard and put all the money in the hospital to buy medicine - it will be a disaster. Why we should work? So without a healthy environment of this Earth, no matter how much money you make, no matter how wonderful you are, you have a bad disaster.

  

  Jack Ma
  • Work
  • Money
  • Why

• Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.

  

  Orson Welles
  • Country
  • You
  • Lunch

• I do go back to Russia frequently, about twice a year. I hate the flight, but it's worth it. My parents have a home in a little village of 12 houses. It's not on any map, so unless you know it's there, you won't find it. Nothing works there; no Internet, no cell phone, and the land line only works sometimes. It's great!

  

  Olesya Rulin
  • Great
  • Home
  • Parents

• All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings.

  

  Edmund Waller
  • Value
  • Things
  • Human

• I am who I am, doing what I came to do, acting upon you like a drug or chisel to remind you of your me-ness as I discover you in myself.

  

  Audre Lorde
  • Drug

• 'That’s another thing about emperors-and regents,' Gareth said. 'They aren’t very fond of changes, even if the changes are for the better.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander

• The so-called incorrigibles were not the way people said they were. I found a lot of character in some of these people.

  

  Jim Brown
  • People
  • Character

• I went up on stage, and said, "Why did the chicken cross the road? To check out the chicks." I was a genius at 10. Try telling that at 21, and you look hacky and stupid. That was the only joke I've ever told. Everything since has been character voices, doing impressions or just telling stories.

  

  Gabriel Iglesias
  • Up
  • Why
  • Character

• The Society or Fraternity of Freemasons is more in the nature of a system of Philosophy or of moral and social virtues taught by symbols, allegories, and lectures based upon fundamental truths, the observance of which tends to promote stability of character, conservatism, morality and good citizenship.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • Character
  • Moral
  • Philosophy

• And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady eye, and well-poised bayonnet, they have helped mankind on to this great consummation.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Remember
  • Black Men
  • Consummation

• There's plenty of people who can sing OK that make terrific records, and I love them from afar. But when I make a record, I need great voices. That's always my mandate.

  

  David Foster
  • People
  • Great

• No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Character
  • Virtue
  • Trustworthiness