Robert Wilson Lynd Quotes

The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.

Robert Wilson Lynd

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• Jesus does not give recipes that show the way to God as other teachers of religion do. He is himself the way.

  

  Karl Barth
  • God
  • Way
  • Jesus

• The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.

  

  Zoltan Kodaly
  • Music
  • Same
  • Morals

• That's where this exciting bundle of energy and joy named Johnny Olson made his entrance and ultimately did the announcing. I had never seen anything like what I was involved in for the next 15 minutes!

  

  Randy West
  • Energy
  • Joy
  • Never

• I'm beyond the normal person. I'm not your everyday Joe.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Person
  • Everyday
  • Normal

• Before, boxing was something that I did. Now, boxing is who I am.

  Mandy Bujold
  • Boxing

• The Tour (de France) is essentially a math problem, a 2,000-mile race over three weeks that's sometimes won by a margin of a minute or less. How do you propel yourself through space on a bicycle, sometimes steeply uphill, at a speed sustainable for three weeks? Every second counts.

  

  Lance Armstrong
  • Space
  • Math

• Why is it that countries which we call strong' are so powerful in creating wars but are so weak in bringing peace? Why is it that giving guns is so easy but giving books is so hard? Why is it, why is it that making tanks is so easy, but building schools is so hard?

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Why
  • Strong
  • Giving

• We do not argue with the critic who urges that the stars are not hot enough for this process; we tell him to go and find a hotter place.

  

  Arthur Eddington

• A mass culture is a culture which can be appropriated by the meanest capacities without any intellectual or moral effort whatsoever. … Liberal education is the counterpoison to mass culture, to the corroding effects of mass culture, to its inherent tendency to produce nothing but 'specialists without spirit or vision and voluptuaries without heart.'

  

  Leo Strauss
  • Heart
  • Culture
  • Education

• i see all of u. i hear all of u. i never want to let any of you down. i love u. and..thank u.

  

  Justin Bieber

• Forget the press - just being a partner of somebody who's very, very famous, it's hard to keep your center and your personality intact.

  

  Patti Scialfa
  • Personality
  • Famous
  • Partner

• I think it's so important as an artist to stand up for what you believe in, and I think that if equal rights is something that you really believe in, and you have a voice that people listen to, and you need to share that - I think that's really important.

  

  Jessica Anne Newham
  • People
  • Up
  • Believe

• When you've seen a lot of bad stuff and just want to enjoy your life and be happy and have your kids happy and have your friends happy, you just have a value system where it raises the bar on what's important.

  

  Bob Saget
  • Life
  • Important
  • Kids

• Standing as a witness in all things means being kind in all things, being the first to say hello, being the first to smile, being the first to make the stranger feel a part of things, being helpful, thinking of others' feelings, being inclusive.

  

  Margaret D. Nadauld
  • Thinking
  • Smile

• Words have power. The things that you say to yourself as a parent - the things that you say maybe even just one time to your children - they take it, and they take it into their real world and into their life and beyond.

  

  Ashley Graham
  • Life
  • Time
  • World

• My thing of not playing offensive tackle is the health issue. I don't want to be that big. That could end up not being good for your health.

  

  Austin Seferian-Jenkins
  • Up
  • Good
  • Health

• I started with CB radio, ham radio, and eventually went into computers. And I was just fascinated with it. And back then, when I was in school, computer hacking was encouraged. It was an encouraged activity. In fact, I remember one of the projects my teacher gave me was writing a log-in simulator.

  

  Kevin Mitnick
  • Writing
  • School
  • Remember

• This relationship is going to be built on trust.

  

  Marla Maples
  • Relationship
  • Trust

• I think pressure is good. Just watching my brother and my dad be professional athletes, I think pressure has driven them and has caused them to excel more.

  

  Kylie Bunbury
  • Good
  • Dad
  • Brother

• I mean, I've been stupid in the past, and I've learned from that.

  

  Aidan Quinn
  • Past
  • Stupid

• I start asking a lot of questions about my own life, and it's not necessarily fun, but it's a good exercise.

  

  Brad Pitt
  • Life
  • Good
  • Fun

• One thing should be put firmly. Where people have commented on that novel [The Paper Men], they generally criticize the poor academic, Rick L. Tucker, who is savaged by the author, Wilfred Barclay. I don't think people have noticed that I have been far ruder about Barclay than I have been about Tucker. Tucker is a fool, but Barclay is a swine. The author really gets his come-uppance.

  

  William Golding
  • People
  • Men
  • Thinking

• It's going to take each of us coming together to muster the strength to look in the mirror and ask, 'How can I help create a sustainable health care system for the 21st century?'

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Together
  • Help
  • Health

• The mirror that Strindberg held up to Nature was a cracked one. It was cracked in a double sense -- it was crazy. It gave back broken images of a world which it made look like the chaos of a lunatic dream.

  

  Robert Wilson Lynd
  • Mirror
  • Images
  • Lunatic