Ernestine Rose Quotes

Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.

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• I don't see pitches down the middle anymore - not even in batting practice.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Practice
  • See
  • Down

• My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Good
  • Why
  • Mom

• Probably the biggest influence on my career was the late John Hersey, who, while he was at 'The New Yorker,' wrote one of the masterpieces of narrative non-fiction, 'Hiroshima.' Hersey was a teacher of mine at Yale, and a friend. He got me to see the possibility of journalism not just as a business but as an art form.

  

  Hampton Sides
  • Art
  • Business
  • Career

• In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

  

  Walter Savage Landor
  • Truth
  • Politics
  • Argument

• But I have never wanted to be a singer, because the exterior part of a career, I don't like very much.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Career
  • Like
  • Never

• The writer presents himself to the blank page not with an open passport but an open heart.

  

  Taiye Selasi
  • Heart
  • Open
  • Page

• The Bay of Pigs became a metaphor for feckless folly and failure.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Failure
  • Folly
  • Pigs

• I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

  

  Nadia Boulanger
  • Job
  • Think
  • Woman

• Willingness to change is a strength, even if it means plunging part of the company into total confusion for a while.

  

  Jack Welch
  • Business
  • Change
  • Strength

• The average person tells a few white lies.

  

  Zooey Deschanel
  • Person
  • Lies
  • White

• The beer was empty and our tongues were tiredAnd running out of things to say.She gave a kiss to me as I got outAnd I watched her drive away.Just for a moment I was back at schoolAnd felt that old familiar painAnd as I turned to make my way back homeThe snow turned into rain.

  

  Dan Fogelberg
  • She
  • Running
  • Rain

• The manifestation of the Divinity must be understood to be in greater degree in those who are honoured, respected, and obeyed by a large following, than in those who have gained no such influence.

  

  Ramakrishna

• War was never so careful as to inflict suffering only where it was merited.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • War
  • Suffering

• I achieved something once again, I think we all want to put a mark on life. I dream, and my dreams always come true. I dreamed I was the heavyweight champion of the world. I am the heavyweight champion of the world.

  

  Larry Holmes
  • Life
  • World
  • True

• Some country is going to be the clean energy superpower of the 21st century and create millions of jobs and businesses. It’s probably going to be either China, Germany, or America. I want it to be us! We invent the technology, we should make it and use it and export it, which will help to grow our economy.

  

  Hillary Clinton
  • Country
  • America
  • Help

• What you can do is present existing flavors in a fresh way, in a fresh context.

  

  Danny Meyer
  • Present

• People wouldn't hire me for comedies. They would say, 'Oh, he doesn't do comedy,' and now it's really all I do.

  

  Kevin Dillon
  • People
  • Comedy

• I'm a black belt in karate. I grew up on the outskirts of Paris, and it was rough.

  

  Elodie Yung
  • Up
  • Black
  • Paris

• Everyday is an opportunity to make a new happy ending.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Happy
  • Opportunity
  • Everyday

• I'm not averse to a bit of travel.

  

  O. T. Fagbenle
  • Travel

• I did learn something about insanity while I was down there. People go crazy, not because they are crazy, but because it's the best available option at the time.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Time
  • Crazy

• The chemistry of love is something which is extremely extremely unbelievable. This is something we have planned for more than two years, so I hope that we are going to start in the beginning of next year.

  

  Lennart Nilsson
  • Hope
  • Beginning

• Hope is the most exciting thing in life, and if you honestly believe that love is out there, it will come. And even if it doesn't come straight away, there is still that chance all through your life that it will.

  

  Josh Hartnett
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Chance

• Whatever good you would do out of fear of punishment, or hope of reward hereafter, the Atheist would do simply because it is good; and being so, he would receive the far surer and more certain reward, springing from well-doing, which would constitute his pleasure, and promote his happiness.

  

  Ernestine Rose
  • Hope
  • Punishment
  • Reward