Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

• Life
• Friends
• Freedom
• Friendship
• Buoyancy

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• You want to find out what it is about you or what it is about your past and your lineage that's in you now, and whether you carry those traits and maybe what one's mission is to take it to the next level.

  

  Olivia d'Abo
  • Want
  • Past
  • Mission

• By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Political
  • Politics
  • See

• What interests me is starting businesses on our own, finding ideas that we can support, and simply investing in invention.

  

  Barry Diller
  • Me
  • Support
  • Ideas

• I know a lot is going to be on our shoulders, especially the way we're starting games out. We have to start faster; I have to be sharper from the start, and I will be. And I'm confident that if we can get this thing started out a little better each week that we can get on that roll and be tough to stop.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Stop
  • Start
  • Week

• Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.

  

  Paige Craig
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Too Much

• There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Me
  • Hate
  • Internet

• We were too young to know better, and none of us were very aggressive people. It would have helped a lot if just one of us had been aggressive enough to say no.

  

  Edie Brickell
  • People
  • Know
  • Better

• Diligence, hard work, foresight, entrepreneurship and God's blessing.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Work
  • God

• The wish to talk to God is absurd. We cannot talk to one we cannot comprehend - and we cannot comprehend God; we can only believe in Him. The uses of prayer are thus only subjective.

  

  Immanuel Kant
  • God
  • Believe
  • Wish

• R-E-S-P-E-C-T Find out what it means to me R-E-S-P-E-C-T Take care … TCB Sock it to me, Sock it to me, Sock it to me.

  

  Aretha Franklin

• Enlightened leadership is spiritual if we understand spirituality not as some kind of religious dogma or ideology but as the domain of awareness where we experience values like truth, goodness, beauty, love and compassion, and also intuition, creativity, insight and focused attention.

  

  Deepak Chopra
  • Experience
  • Truth
  • Attention

• The Latino vote has to be earned just like any other.

  

  Lionel Sosa

• The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.

  

  Christopher Lasch
  • Important
  • Silence

• We all have something about ourselves that we'd change if we could in a perfect world, be it our body image, our financial status, our relationship, whatever. I wanted to talk about how nobody's exempted from the realities of life and all those things.

  

  Keri Hilson The Clutch
  • Life
  • World
  • Relationship

• I've grown up feeling very American but being constantly bothered by people - there's internalized racism and feeling weird about being second-generation.

  

  Kelela Mizanekristos
  • People
  • Up
  • American

• I started to look like a cartoon character with the fringe and the catsuits. Yes, I want to change and mix it up. I want to change my hair, change my style. I want to be allowed to grow.

  

  Jessie J
  • Up
  • Character
  • Style

• I never got a degree; I just started writing.

  

  Joe R. Lansdale
  • Writing

• I'm not the most attractive fella. I'm not a Billy Dee Williams. Personality is everything.

  

  Kevin Hart
  • Personality

• I'm fed up with being bossed around.

  

  David Hockney
  • Up

• There was another Judy Garland movie on TV, and it wasn't 'The Wizard of Oz,' and I was so confused. I was like, 'Wait a second, what is Dorothy doing in this movie?' And that's when I became fascinated. I didn't realize there were actors.

  

  Kate Micucci
  • Movie
  • Doing
  • Confused

• I worked as a draftsman for the Department of Environmental Protection, and as a teacher, in N.Y.C.; at a big bank and a small ad agency, a tiny law firm and a few giant ones; as a cashier and a dishwasher; preparing deli sandwiches and stringing tennis racquets and pruning evergreens into conical Christmas-tree shapes.

  

  Chris Pavone
  • Small
  • Law
  • Teacher

• The cream of enjoyment in this life is always impromptu. The chance walk; the unexpected visit; the unpremeditated journey; the unsought conversation or acquaintance.

  

  Sara Willis
  • Life
  • Chance
  • Journey

• God exists in eternity. The only point where eternity meets time is in the present. The present is the only time there is.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Time
  • God
  • Present

• Friends are necessary to a happy life. When friendship deserts us, we are as helpless as a ship left by the tide high upon the shore. When friendship returns to us, it's as though the tide came back, giving us buoyancy and freedom.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Freedom