Harvey Cox Quotes

The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

Harvey Cox

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• Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.

  

  Yuri Andropov
  • Industry
  • Modern
  • Slow

• Intellectual Ventures is a company that invests in invention.

  

  Nathan Myhrvold
  • Company
  • Intellectual

• I'm a Persian Jew, and we don't speak Hebrew.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Speak
  • Hebrew
  • Persian

• Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.

  

  Edsger Dijkstra
  • Success
  • Failure
  • Luxury

• A good leader must be fair.

  

  Yao Ming
  • Good
  • Leader
  • Fair

• You feel like you need to deal with a lot if you're from Cleveland, so you learn to let things roll off your back, and you learn that humor is the best way to deal with it.

  

  Vanessa Bayer
  • Best
  • Learn
  • Humor

• Someone has to stand up for wimps.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Up
  • Stand
  • Someone

• I'm a bit of a perfectionist. I'll watch myself back on 'Xtra Factor' and want to do it again because of a few hiccups.

  

  Olly Murs
  • Want
  • Myself
  • Back

• I think music sharing of any kind is great.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Great
  • Music
  • Sharing

• I thought I would spent my career doing Chekhov and Ibsen in regional theaters, so the fact that I started doing new plays was a whole new world I didn't expect, and that I would like to keep doing.

  

  Zeljko Ivanek
  • World
  • Career
  • Thought

• I know that often times a lot of people who work in music, whether they be labels and so on or even artists, want personal recognition. We want to be recognized for something, for what we did. I'd rather my song be recognized for what it's doing and that's important. It's not so important how many people know me.

  

  Keinan Abdi Warsame
  • People
  • Work
  • Music

• A discontented young fellow, filled with self pride; he certainly should have considered it an honor to be sent on so respectable an embassy as he was.

  

  Zebulon Pike
  • Pride
  • Honor
  • Self

• Of course, mankind has made giant steps forward. However, what we know is really very, very little compared to what we still have to know.

  

  Fabiola Gianotti
  • Know
  • Steps
  • Forward

• I like doing very high action things. Running, boxing, a lot of free weights. They're not heavy. I eat what I want, really, because I think that while you're working out you can eat better.

  

  Natasha Bedingfield
  • High
  • Free
  • Action

• From all this it follows what the general character of the problem of the development of a body of scientific knowledge is, in so far as it depends on elements internal to science itself.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • Character
  • Science
  • Knowledge

• Every day I do something that freaks me out.

  

  Gail Porter
  • Me
  • Day
  • Everyday

• The painter's portrait and the physicist's explanation are both rooted in reality, but they have been changed by the painter or the physicist into something more subtly imagined than the photographic appearance of things.

  

  Jacob Bronowski
  • Reality

• 'Visitation' reflects the era of the absentee father; 'parent time' influences the re-emergence of the involved father. 'Visitation' reflects the destruction of the family; 'parent time' influences the reconstruction of the family. 'Parent time' influences an era that understands that as either parents loses, so lose the children.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Time
  • Children
  • Family

• Not only are utilities switching from coal and oil to gas, but also trucking, schoolbuses, garbage trucks, and even taxi fleets.

  

  Charles C. Mann

• Building a stable, peaceful, and coherent Europe must include Russia.

  

  James G. Stavridis

• Do you know what a playwright is? A playwright is someone who lets his guts hang out on the stage.

  

  Edward Albee

• It's embarrassing, isn't it? It took me 15 years to make an 18-minute movie.

  

  Andrew McCarthy
  • Movie

• It's probably a prerequisite for the job, or at least you have to have enough craziness to think that you can do the job. I think that [Donald Trump] has not spent a lot of time sweating the details of, you know, all the policies.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Job

• The political is replacing the metaphysical as the characteristic mode of grasping reality.

  

  Harvey Cox
  • Political
  • Metaphysical
  • Characteristic mode