Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier...

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• The truth about people at every economic level of life is you get those who are kind and who are not, those who are greedy, whether they be rich or poor. That's a common thread through humanity on any street you go to.

  

  Gavid Hood
  • People
  • Life
  • Truth

• Making films is my hobby. It relaxes me; it is my life, and it's one of the best jobs in the world. I go to work and solve problems, fight robots, kill aliens, and kiss beautiful women. I'm a very lucky man.

  

  Sam Worthington
  • Life
  • World
  • Work

• The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Life
  • Suits
  • Shoe

• If 'Airplane!' comes on, it's like a comfort film. You can always guarantee a laugh watching that movie.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Movie
  • Laugh
  • Comfort

• Under Hitler it was the entrepreneurial and professional classes who were the first victims of Nazi boycotts and exclusion. Today it is Israel, the most powerful symbol of Jewish national resurgence in two millennia.

  

  Jack Schwartz
  • Today
  • Powerful
  • Professional

• When people are poor, they find ways of making things taste like fish.

  

  Ma Jian
  • People
  • Find
  • Fish

• The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear... What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away... We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Up
  • Writing
  • Experience

• If uncovering the truth is the greatest challenge of nonfiction writing, it is also the greatest reward.

  

  Candice Millard
  • Writing
  • Truth
  • Challenge

• Obama's ascendancy unhinged the radical right, offering a unified target to competing camps of racial, nativist and religious animus.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Religious
  • Target
  • Radical

• When I found somebody who I fell in love with, it made me feel different than I felt the rest of the day. It was electrifying. That's what inspired the 'Off to the Races' melodies. That's one of the times when you're feeling electrified by someone else and they make you happy to be alive.

  

  Lana Del Rey
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Feel

• My wife and I volunteer for the Guide Dog Foundation, and we have two giant labs.

  

  Yul Vazquez
  • Wife
  • Dog
  • Foundation

• There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Life
  • Work
  • Book

• Music is something that is supposed to connect people on a pure level.

  

  Jamila Woods
  • People
  • Music

• I'm still struggling with whether I might want to get off the Internet. More and more people I know have. Daniel Day Lewis doesn't do the Internet at all, and I noticed he had many more books open around his house.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • People
  • House

• I didn't start drama school until I was 20, and I don't think I would have gotten nearly as much out of it had I gone when I was 18.

  

  Ben Schnetzer
  • School
  • Drama

• I don't know technology and engineering. I don't know accounting.

  

  Bernard Ebbers
  • Technology
  • Engineering

• One of the greatest features of science is that it doesn't matter where you were born, and it doesn't matter what the belief systems of your parents might have been: If you perform the same experiment that someone else did, at a different time and place, you'll get the same result.

  

  Neil deGrasse Tyson
  • Time
  • Different
  • Parents

• The House of Lords says I'm not a member of it. My passport says I am - get used to it.

  

  Christopher Monckton
  • House

• I like rap. I like anything with soul. I like anything you can feel, anything that makes you think that the artist had to make that song, or they were going to go crazy.

  

  Banks
  • Soul
  • Song
  • Crazy

• Customers require the effective integration of technologies to simplify their workflow and boost efficiency.

  

  Anne M. Mulcahy

• I had no idea of being a star, all I knew was that I wanted to be a great actress, I wanted to work as an actress. So I thought the way I would be a great actress was to sing and dance first. Lay a foundation - get my foot in the door, and then undoubtedly, of course, I would be offered great roles as soon as I grew up enough to handle them.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Up
  • Work
  • Great

• All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

  

  Aristotle
  • Nature
  • Passion
  • Reason

• Why do we wait for tragedy to strike to tell someone how special they are, or how special they were?

  

  Juhi Chawla
  • Special
  • Tragedy
  • Tell

• Every failure can be considered as a tragedy or a chance to learn something. The latter is healthier...

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Failure
  • Chance
  • Tragedy