Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes
One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
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The new technologies that we see coming will have major benefits that will greatly alleviate human suffering.
Ralph Merkle
Sport can bring communities together and can release a lot of pent-up emotions.
Ian Botham
If you're in a conversation with me, the last thing I'll probably say when I'm walking away is, 'Thank you and sorry.'
Jack Antonoff
Fun.
I like music. Country, hip-hop, R&B, sometimes classical.
Zaha Hadid
Capitalism historically has been a very dynamic force, and behind that force is technical progress, innovation, new ideas, new products, new technologies, and new methods of managing teams.
Manmohan Singh
Truth is one forever absolute, but opinion is truth filtered through the moods, the blood, the disposition of the spectator.
Wendell Phillips
I don't mind being called snobbish, a pain and a social climber, but being called unkind really hurts.
Rachel Johnson
In some areas I am more noted for reading then I am for cookies!
Wally Amos
Planned Parenthood 'is teaching kids to fornicate, teaching people to have adultery, every kind of bestiality, homosexuality, lesbianism – everything that the Bible condemns.' (The 700 Club, variously dated as 9 Apr. 1991 or 14 Jan. 1991).
Pat Robertson
What Miss Moore’s best poetry does, I can say best in her words: it 'comes into and steadies the soul,' so that the reader feels himself 'a life prisoner, but reconciled.'
Randall Jarrell
A large, coarse-skinned young woman but with something of my friend's features, particularly the mouth.
Ada Lovelace
Indian, Indian what did you die for? Indian says, nothing at all.
Jim Morrison
The Doors
'Poly' means more than one, and ticks are bloodsucking parasites.
Kinky Friedman
The sight of a feather in a peacock’s tail, whenever I gaze at it, makes me sick!
Charles Darwin
I was repelled by the sleazy reality of the totalitarian countries: politicians were shameless. There were corruption, pollution, shoddy goods, long lines, and suicide everywhere, but the leaders kept boasting about their great achievements and bright tomorrows. I saw all this and tried to show it in my pictures as simply and straightforwardly as I could. All I wanted to do was record how all these poor people adapted to lies and suffering, how they got used to it, how, in fact they were bound to miss it when it was over.
Antonin Kratochvil
That is the difference we make in the world. And our own safety, our own security, depends upon our willingness to do what it takes to defend this nation and uphold the values that we stand for - timeless ideals that will endure long after those who offer only hate and destruction have been vanquished from the Earth.
Barack Obama
We see only the simple motion of descent, since that other circular one common to the Earth, the tower, and ourselves remains imperceptible. There remains perceptible to us only that of the stone, which is not shared by us; and, because of this, sense shows it as by a straight line, always parallel to the tower, which is built upright and perpendicular upon the terrestrial surface.
Galileo Galilei
One of the most amazing things ever said on this earth is Jesus's statement: "He that is greatest among you shall be your servant." Nobody has one chance in a billion of being thought really great after a century has passed except those who have been the servants of all. That strange realist from Bethlehem knew that.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
