Ralph Adams Cram Quotes

The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

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• It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Religion
  • Morality
  • Simply

• I am obsessed with the Great Depression and with former showgirls - and the Victorians - the idea of wistful, dark romance.

  

  Karen Elson
  • Great
  • Depression
  • Obsessed

• Elvis was a big influence to my music, but Loretta Lynn was, as well.

  

  Tanya Tucker
  • Music
  • Influence
  • Big

• It's a funny thing about rap, that when you say 'I' into the microphone, it's like a public confession. It's very strange.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • You
  • Funny
  • Rap

• I simply adore getting dressed up for a special occasion. I feel incredible stepping out in luxurious fabrics and a bit of bling. That's also how I feel about special-occasion dining rooms. Because these aren't everyday spaces, they contain all sorts of drama for that once-in-a-while 'wow' event.

  

  Candice Olson
  • Up
  • Feel
  • Drama

• I've done a lot of drama, and comedy was the one genre I was not being offered. So I became obsessive about getting one.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Done
  • Comedy
  • Drama

• I am a very loyal man and always keep my promises when I commit to something.

  

  Sam Heughan
  • Commit
  • Promises
  • Loyal

• We need to move past blame and make sure we are delivering care to our veterans.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • Past
  • Care
  • Blame

• In writing a series of stories about the same characters, plan the whole series in advance in some detail, to avoid contradictions and inconsistencies.

  

  L. Sprague de Camp
  • Writing
  • Plan
  • Detail

• We have to be aware of our fragilities as human beings - when we see cruelty, to understand that in certain conditions, we could be cruel, too.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Human
  • Understand
  • See

• When hypocrisy is a character trait, it also affects one's thinking, because it consists in the negation of all the aspects of reality that one finds disagreeable, irrational or repugnant.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Thinking
  • Character
  • Reality

• It was never about winning medals or being famous.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Never
  • Winning
  • Famous

• I want to have a career in 10, 20 years, so it's harder now, and maybe more stressful now, but in the future, hopefully it will all pay off.

  

  Verite
  • Future
  • Want
  • Career

• If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.

  

  Pat Garrett
  • Together
  • Nice
  • Quality

• My dad's family were pretty working class, actually.

  

  Dan Stevens
  • Family
  • Pretty
  • Dad

• I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Art
  • Soul

• There's something really fun about being scared, and I guess that was at least part of why I wanted to film certain scenes from my new book, 'Skeleton Creek.'

  

  Patrick Carman
  • Why
  • Book
  • Fun

• Man's task is to become conscious of the contents that press upward from the unconscious.

  

  Carl Jung
  • Man
  • Become
  • Task

• Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Nothing
  • Some
  • Symbols

• I don't have a telephone. If I had a lot of money, I wouldn't have one.

  

  Sam Crawford
  • Money
  • Lot
  • Telephone

• Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

  

  Jacques Barzun
  • Important
  • Society
  • Democracy

• If the beat is time, flow is what we do with that time, how we live through it. The beat is everywhere, but every life has to find its own flow.

  

  Jay-Z
  • Life
  • Time
  • Live

• You must ask for God's help. Even when you have done so, it may seem to you for a long time that no help, or less help than you need, is being given. Never mind. After each failure, ask forgiveness, pick yourself up, and try again. Very often what God first helps us towards is not the virtue itself but just this power of always trying again.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Up
  • Time
  • God

• The pursuit of perfection always implies a definite aristocracy, which is as much a goal of effort as a noble philosophy, an august civil polity or a great art.

  

  Ralph Adams Cram
  • Great
  • Art
  • Effort