Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
I'm a big 'Firefly' fan. I'm a Nathan Fillion fan because of 'Firefly.'
-
I achieved what I want to achieve and I want to continue doing something else.
-
I was a breakdancer as a kid. I was on one of the top break dancing teams in Australia.
-
Because of the structure of the contemporary American party system, every president is polarizing.
-
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?'
-
I look formidable.
-
The left-brainer and the economist in me says watch what people do, not what they say.
-
I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
-
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.
-
Ask not what you can do for your country. Ask what's for lunch.
-
I understand that the rule of fashion is to change, even as a successful designer - you do not want to be stuck in the same rut.
-
I am a big fan of photography, more of being behind the camera - so when I get the opportunity to work with such great photographers, I always try and learn from their technique.
-
If we didn't need eight hours of sleep and could survive on six, Mother Nature would have done away with 25 percent of our sleep time millions of years ago. Because when you think about it, sleep is an idiotic thing to do.
-
There's a Ford dealer in every city around the United States. They're the fabric of the community. They're either head of the chamber of commerce or the priest, or I mean they're just the fabric of America, and they took care of us.
-
But words - words are not enough!
-
There are people who take rumors and embellish them in a way that can be devastating. And this pollution has to be eradicated by people in our business as best we can.
-
Nobody wants a political prisoner, but a political emigrant is no problem.
-
I can picture the character in my head, and the voice just comes out.
-
I hate hearing me talk when I'm not in character, and I can barely deal with hearing me as a character.
-
The beauty of performance for me is finding details with which to betray character.
-
When I stopped eating meat, I fell in love with East Indian food - there's so much selection, and they use the most beautiful spices.
-
No virtue is more universally accepted as a test of good character than trustworthiness.
