Ernest Renan (Joseph Ernest Renan) Quotes

All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

Ernest Renan

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• Had I been injured on the freeway and not in combat, it is likely that I would be bankrupt even though I had medical insurance through my civilian employer.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Insurance
  • Been
  • Medical

• Strength is born in the deep silence of long-suffering hearts; not amid joy.

  

  Felicia Hemans
  • Long
  • Joy
  • Suffering

• We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • Car
  • Same
  • Test

• We want to get to a point where anything you can think of finding that is video related is searchable or recommended to you on YouTube.

  

  Salar Kamangar
  • Think
  • Want
  • Finding

• We tend to forget in the West that the United States has more Muslim blood on its hands than Al Qaeda has on its hands of innocent non-Muslims.

  

  Feisal Abdul Rauf
  • Hands
  • Forget
  • Blood

• Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

  

  Vin Scully
  • People
  • Up
  • Growing

• According to Islamic principles, when a man is accused of heresy, he is given the choice between repentance and punishment.

  

  Naguib Mahfouz
  • Man
  • Choice
  • Islamic

• Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

  

  Natalie Clifford Barney
  • Time
  • Tears
  • Faces

• Jellicle Cats come out tonight, Jellicle Cats come one come all: The Jellicle Moon is shining bright - Jellicles come to the Jellicle Ball.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Moon

• Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

  

  Lionel Trilling
  • Culture

• I was wrong, however, to suppose that Sellers thought the world revolved around him. He thought the cosmos did too, and history, and the fates... Like every egomaniac, he behaved as if everybody else spent their day being as interested in him as he was.

  

  Clive James
  • World
  • History

• Indeed, it is not intellect, but intuition which advances humanity. Intuition tells man his purpose in this life.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Humanity

• When I left high school, my dad was directing a film, and I went to work for him as a P.A. There were two wonderful editors, Bud Isaacs and Bernie Balmuth, working on the project, and every chance I had, I would go to the editing room to watch and learn from them.

  

  Christopher Rouse
  • Work
  • School
  • High

• There's the phrase of 'making America great again,' but how did we make America great? Who did it? It was Thurgood Marshall who did it. It was Thurgood Marshall who made America live up to its constitution, to its dream. He pushed the envelope to make sure that we were equal.

  

  Chadwick Boseman
  • Up
  • Great
  • Live

• Enemies make you stronger, allies make you weaker.

  

  Frank Herbert

• In a leadership role in Iraq and in running my own business, what I've learned is if you don't listen, you're going to strike out. You're going to fail miserably. The people you work with have got to know you're engaged and you're listening.

  

  Brad Wenstrup
  • People
  • Work
  • Business

• Donald Trump is at his very best, at his very best, when he talks about the issues.

  

  Kellyanne Conway
  • Trump

• I am one of the happiest people I know. And that's a weird place to have arrived at from being a depressed Jewish kid.

  

  Debra Winger
  • People
  • Weird

• It's a sad state of affairs when we make fun of people for reading instead of making reading fun for people.

  

  Jen Selinsky
  • People
  • Fun
  • Reading

• The supreme style of love is unknown love. If the affection is known by the beloved, that love is snob. If you sacrifice your life for the beloved, and she recognises your love after you die, your soul would be appraised.

  

  Yamamoto Tsunetomo
  • Life
  • She
  • Soul

• I appreciate any organization or individual people who sincerely make an effort to promote harmony between humanity, and particularly harmony between the various religions. I consider it very sacred work and very important work

  

  Dalai Lama
  • People
  • Work
  • God

• All the great things of humanity have been accomplished in the name of absolute principles.

  

  Ernest Renan
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