Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• I think that one of the primary roles of an attorney, and certainly we try to teach it here to our students, is that you counsel compliance with the law. The lawyer, more than simply being a mouthpiece for the client and advocating at whatever cost the client's interest, is also an officer of the court in questions that appear before the court.

  

  Viet D. Dinh
  • Law
  • Lawyer
  • Questions

• I'm one of those idiots; when I'm working in America, I wake up with an American accent and stay with it all day till make-up comes off.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Up
  • American
  • America

• I search for surprise in my architecture. A work of art should cause the emotion of newness.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
  • Work
  • Art
  • Search

• Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.

  

  Pablo Casals
  • Forget
  • Greatest
  • Thieves

• The world is mud-luscious and puddle-wonderful.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • World
  • Nature

• My best time is a 3:20 in Paris in 2010, and I trained to try for a 3-hour marathon in New York, but Hurricane Sandy hit, and it was canceled.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Time
  • Best
  • New York

• I grew up on 'Battle of the Planets.'

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Battle
  • Planets

• As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • Money
  • Want
  • Saying

• I am all for everyone having a voice; I just don't think everyone has earned the microphone. And that's what the Internet has done.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Voice
  • Internet
  • Microphone

• Films are really cool because, every couple months, or however many times you can get a job because there's a lot of luck involved in that, you're playing a different character.

  

  Zachary Levi
  • Different
  • Character
  • Job

• It just so happened that my agent called and said, 'There's this movie 'Pitch Perfect.' Here are the sides.' I think I originally read for Bumper, because Donald didn't have much in the script, so I read all Bumper's lines. I beatboxed for them, because that's what my character was supposed to do. And then I was like, 'By the way, I rap.'

  

  Utkarsh Ambudkar
  • Character
  • Movie
  • Think

• You have to continue to grow and evolve as individuals in order for your marriage to evolve. It takes two pillars to support a structure. If those two pillars become one, you have a structure that teeters.

  

  Tamara Tunie
  • Support
  • Marriage
  • Grow

• I have friends who are movie stars, and I think it's just as hard a job as being a working actor. But it's a different job, and it's not the one I want.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Different
  • Job
  • Friends

• I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • Bad
  • Being
  • Reputation

• You can spin stories out of the ways people understand and misunderstand each other.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • People
  • You
  • Understand

• For a long time I limited myself to one colour - as a form of discipline.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Time
  • Long
  • Discipline

• In 1946, when I was still an adolescent, I went and signed my name on the other side of the sky during a fantastic 'realistico-imaginary' voyage.

  

  Yves Klein
  • Sky

• Who would expect it so? From darkness light is brought, Life rises out of Death, And Something comes from Naught.

  

  Angelus Silesius
  • Life
  • Death
  • Light

• Happy people have neither age nor memory, they have no need of the past.

  

  Tahar Djaout
  • People
  • Happy
  • Age

• ...To the Dolphin alone, beyond all other, nature has granted what the best philosophers seek: friendship for no advantage.

  

  Plutarch
  • Nature
  • Advantage
  • Philosophers

• This is the first time in 10 years I don't know what I'm doing next, and I'm rather enjoying it. Soon I'll be climbing the walls no doubt, but right now, it's not clear, I'm just enjoying the freedom.

  

  Sam Mendes
  • Time
  • Freedom
  • Doubt

• Freedom is a lonely battle, but if the United States doesn't lead it - sometimes imperfectly, but mostly with honor - who will?

  

  Cal Thomas
  • Freedom
  • Honor
  • Lonely

• One of the great moments of my life was when I could write musician on my passport.

  

  John Roy Anderson Yes
  • Life
  • Great
  • Music

• Men will work hard for money. They will work harder for other men. But men will work hardest of all when they are dedicated to a cause. Until willingness overflows obligation, men fight as conscripts rather than following the flag as patriots. Duty is never worthily performed until it is performed by one who would gladly do more if only he could.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Men
  • Money
  • Obligation