Harry Emerson Fosdick Quotes

Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

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• I ain't just collab-ing with anybody. Because I don't care about making friends. I got enough friends.

  

  Young Thug
  • Friends
  • Care
  • Enough

• The great thing about America is I've never felt like an outsider. I'm just a different piece of the puzzle.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • Great
  • Different
  • America

• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Question
  • Tennis
  • Lose

• On banks, I make no apology for attacking spivs and gamblers who did more harm to the British economy than Bob Crow could achieve in his wildest Trotskyite fantasies, while paying themselves outrageous bonuses underwritten by the taxpayer. There is much public anger about banks and it is well deserved.

  

  Vince Cable
  • Achieve
  • Anger
  • Apology

• Hair is also a problem. I remember once, when I was reporting from Beirut at the height of the civil war, someone wrote in to the BBC complaining about my appearance.

  

  Kate Adie
  • Remember
  • War
  • Problem

• The history of Bitcoin trading is a bubble, a correction, consolidation, and another increase. It's happened four times, and it will happen again.

  

  Barry Silbert
  • History
  • Will
  • Happen

• When you're actually making the film, you're constantly battling to maintain its integrity.

  

  Ted Kotcheff
  • You
  • Film
  • Integrity

• In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.

  

  Olga Kurylenko
  • Black
  • Know
  • Paris

• I'm proud of my family, very proud - I have ten grandchildren, four children, and one wife.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Children
  • Family
  • Wife

• You can lead a horse to water and you can even make it drink, but you can't make actresses wear what they don't want to wear.

  

  Edith Head
  • Want
  • Water
  • Horse

• Velvet is great. It's warm as well. And it's snug.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • Great
  • Warm
  • Velvet

• I don't know that I'd necessarily want to see into the future. I don't want to know what's happening next.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Future
  • Want
  • Know

• The urge for good design is the same as the urge to go on living.

  

  Harry Bertoia
  • Good
  • Design
  • Living

• I don't think it's the function of Congress to function well. It should drag its heels on the way to decision.

  

  Barber Conable
  • Think
  • Way
  • Decision

• The best revolutions are unplanned, and the most democratic are leaderless.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Best
  • Most
  • Revolutions

• To eat passionately is to allow the world in.

  

  Kate Christensen
  • World
  • Eat
  • Allow

• Solvency is maintained by means of a national debt, on the principle, 'If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?'

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Money

• I am sometimes accused of being oversensitive about unemployment. I do not believe that that is possible, certainly not for anyone who lived through the 1930s and saw the political consequences of high unemployment throughout Western Europe and what happened in 1939.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Believe
  • High
  • Political

• It was his experience that crises in space fell into two categories: those that killed you immediately, usually without much warning, and those that gave you plenty of time to ruminate on the problem, even if no solution was very likely.

  

  Alastair Reynolds
  • Time
  • Experience
  • Space

• Nobody is denying we should investigate and do what we can to prevent gun crime in our cities and towns. But, we should not scapegoat the American gun owner for complicated, cultural problems we are just beginning to understand.

  

  Bob Barr
  • American
  • Beginning
  • Gun

• We don't pay taxes. Only the little people pay taxes.

  

  Leona Helmsley
  • People

• You have to, in your own life, get people to want to work with you and want to help you. The organizational chart, in my opinion, means very little. I need my bosses' goodwill, but I need the goodwill of my subordinates even more.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • People
  • Life
  • Work

• Life consists not simply in what heredity and environment do to us, but in what we make out of what they do to us.

  

  Harry Emerson Fosdick
  • Life
  • Environment
  • Make