Josiah Strong Quotes

Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

Josiah Strong

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• If it's a good day, I get 'The New York Times' on my iPad, and if I have a little time in the morning, I like to look at that while I'm eating.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Time
  • Good
  • Day

• I am convinced after more than 50 years in the field of motivation that anyone who wants to learn to look at life and/or their circumstances in a positive light can do so.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Life
  • Light
  • Positive

• I wish I were kind of normal. It would be so much more simple.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • Wish
  • Kind
  • Simple

• I recognized that I had a window of opportunity that had opened because of my exposure as an actor.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Opportunity
  • Because
  • Window

• I'm in production year round. I work long hours. I have a dog and a wife. There's not a lot of available time for consuming any culture: T.V., movies, books. When I read, it's generally magazines, newspapers and web sites.

  

  Ira Glass
  • Time
  • Work
  • Long

• All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Better
  • Experiment

• Jobs has within him sort of this conflict, but he doesn't quite see it as a conflict between being hippie-ish and anti-materialistic but wanting to sell things like Wozniak's board. Wanting to create a business.

  

  Walter Isaacson
  • Business
  • Conflict
  • Him

• My father usually does not talk to me about my films, and it was a pleasant moment when he appreciated me the first time.

  

  Mahesh Babu
  • Time
  • Father
  • Moment

• I don't know if my songs fit in films.

  

  Ed Sheeran
  • Know
  • Songs
  • Fit

• Where is all the knowledge we lost with information?

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Knowledge
  • Lost
  • Information

• I hadn't realized the number of people that are still interested in listening to what I am doing, people I would never know about if not for being online.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • People
  • Listening
  • Online

• I wouldn't feel comfortable talking to someone I didn't know very well and, beyond that person, a readership of X millions, about things I think are private.

  

  Natasha Little
  • Think
  • Know
  • Feel

• I think people try so hard to learn everything that they miss all the wonderful essentials. There is so much mystery in life that you should leave a mystery.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • People
  • Life
  • Mystery

• Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation.

  

  Ignatius of Antioch
  • Believe
  • Blood
  • Angels

• Disneyland is supposed to be the happiest place on Earth and I have to say when I'm riding around in that crazy Space Mountain ride I'm happy.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Happy
  • Earth
  • Space

• impersonating her mother Now, Maria, if a boy doesn't like you, I would just like you to know that he is intimidated by your beauty, because you are the most beautiful girl in the whole world and if you would stop doing impersonations of me I think other people would see that...

  

  Maria Bamford
  • People
  • World
  • Mother

• Far better an approximate answer to the right question, which is often vague, than the exact answer to the wrong question, which can always be made precise.

  

  John Tukey
  • Question

• To the feudal aristocracy and the aristocracy of the spirit, nobility derives from diametrically opposite sources. The glory of the feudal aristocrat is in being a link in the longest possible chain of ancestors. The glory of the aristocrat of the spirit is in having no ancestors - or having as few as possible. If an artist is his own ancestor, if he has only descendents, he enters history as a genius; if he has few ancestors, or is related to them distantly, he enters history as a talent.

  

  Yevgeny Zamyatin
  • Spirit
  • Aristocracy
  • Feudal

• We have seen... that, although England is by far the richest nation of Europe, we have already outstripped her in the race after wealth, and we have only begun the development of our vast resources.

  

  Josiah Strong
  • Wealth
  • Race
  • Development

• Tobacco control is clearly a number one priority in Europe, not only aimed at men, particularly the male populations of Central and Eastern Europe, but increasingly targeted towards women, especially in Northern Europe.

  

  Peter Boyle
  • Priority
  • Europe
  • Tobacco

• Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

  

  Conan O'Brien
  • People
  • Dreams
  • Regret

• Our aristocracy, unlike that of Europe, is open to all comers.

  

  Josiah Strong
  • Europe
  • Aristocracy
  • Scientism