Harvey Cox Quotes

I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

Harvey Cox

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• Near Marseilles in the south of France, bouillabaisse is a cult food. In Toulouse and Carcassonne, the bean-based stew cassoulet is a cult food. Spain has paella and a number of others. Italy has so many, its cuisine is practically defined by them.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Food
  • France
  • Italy

• The truth is, I've been going pretty much nuts all year. I constantly have to fight being scattered. I feel like I'm on automatic pilot from fatigue. The hardest thing is trying to be present, living for the moment, for everybody in the family.

  

  Patricia Richardson
  • Trying
  • Family
  • Truth

• Self-respect: the secure feeling that no one, as yet, is suspicious.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Feeling
  • Respect
  • Self-respect

• Capitals accumulate faster than the population; thus wages; thus population; thus grain prices; thus the difficulty of production and hence the exchange values.

  

  Karl Marx

• The deliberate aim at Peace very easily passes into its bastard substitute, Anesthesia.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Peace

• When you talk about yourself for 35 years, first of all, it gets repetitious. And then it seems a little bit excessive, at the least.

  

  Lily Tomlin

• The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

  

  Mary Wollstonecraft

• I really wanted to write a song like Eric Clapton's 'Wonderful Tonight.' It's just such a sweet sentiment. It's so simple but so genuine.

  

  Andy Grammer
  • Song
  • Simple
  • Sweet

• There's nothing I don't know about war. The stench of it. But I say that without any pride. War is a terrible thing. My hope is that you'll get that through looking at one of my pictures.

  

  Don McCullin
  • War
  • Hope
  • Pride

• People who don't use the tools given to them only injure themselves.

  

  Debra Wilson
  • People

• You know, when George Bush talks about freedom not being America's gift to world but God's gift to all humankind, it smells like market testing to me.

  

  Joe Klein
  • World
  • God
  • America

• Got a degree in acting and actually double majored in musical theatre. And then I came straight to New York and started working.

  

  Dan Amboyer
  • Theatre

• The man who doesn't want anything is invincible.

  

  Antonio Banderas

• My mother had no end of tragedy in her life. She would make herself get up and take a deep breath and go out and do laundry. Hang up sheets.

  

  Patti Smith
  • Life
  • Up
  • She

• ISIS has leadership, just like al Qaeda has leadership. It's important to be able to eliminate the individuals that are leading the organization.

  

  James Lankford
  • Important
  • Leadership
  • Organization

• I feel like if you read something, and it makes you so curious about a topic that you then go read something else, that's exciting.

  Curtis Sittenfeld

• They have acted like carnivores who used the world to enrich only themselves, and whether it's the election of Donald Trump, or Brexit, the elites have realized that the people have stopped listening to them, that the people want to determine their futures and, in a perfectly democratic framework, regain control of their destiny.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People
  • World
  • Control

• You've never seen Manhattan 'til you've flown right up the East River. It's beautiful.

  

  Cory Lidle
  • Up
  • Beautiful
  • River

• wonder what day god created the egg' 'how should we know? we should not question. our stay on earth is not for long. let us rejoice and believe and give thanks'. 'eat a egg

  

  Ernest Hemingway
  • Believe
  • Long
  • Earth

• Sickened by vermin that feed, in the shade of the good, on envy, greed, and suspicion, by the snake-like hissing of venomous tongues that fear hate and revile the mystery of free thought and upright heart The spirit would cast aside all deceit, open his heart to the spirit he trusts, and unite with him freely as one.

  

  Dietrich Bonhoeffer
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Free

• I always said I never wanted to write about love, but then I went and did that anyway.

  

  Amy Winehouse

• One of the reasons that the African American actors wanted to be a part of the show was because these people are talking to each other the way that African American people talk to each other, and they said that they didn't see that on TV.

  

  Tony Goldwyn
  • Reason
  • Actors
  • Said

• There is One Infinite Spirit and every time man says, "I am" he proclaims it.

  

  Ernest Holmes
  • Spirit
  • Proclaims

• I am dead against trying to keep religious conservatives out of the political debate. The tactic of exclusion is self-defeating.

  

  Harvey Cox
  • Political debate
  • Religious conservatives
  • Self-defeating