Henry Norris Russell Quotes

For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

Henry Norris Russell

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• The best time to expand is when people are asleep at the wheel.

  

  Barbara Corcoran
  • People
  • Time
  • Best

• The culinary tradition in my family is very strong. My mother, a very wise woman, spent the better part of her life in a kitchen. It's a very strong part of her identity. I grew up there next to the fire.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I have been getting offers from international artistes for collaboration all across the globe, but I prefer to work with Indian artistes.

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Work
  • Collaboration
  • Getting

• You earn very little money on independent films and I'm the provider for my home, so I do have to think of taking one for the accountant time and again and that means studio pictures.

  

  Vera Farmiga
  • Time
  • Money
  • Home

• It's weird, but I don't feel like think I deserve any of the attention. There's really nothing but one audition for a Disney Channel movie that separates me from 2,000 other brown-haired, blue-eyed guys in L.A., you know?

  

  Zac Efron
  • Movie
  • Know
  • Me

• At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • School
  • Dance
  • Worst

• When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Money
  • Director
  • Envy

• Vitia erunt donec homines

  

  Tacitus

• I was interning at a record label - OK, cool. I'm gonna do what my mom did, you know, work her way up in the music industry, the business side of things. I was comfortable with that. That was what I wanted to do. And then just suddenly I am thrown from that. It was super insane.

  

  Jack Osbourne
  • Up
  • Work
  • Music

• Perseus wore a magic cap that the monsters he hunted down might not see him. We draw the magic cap down over eyes and ears as a make-believe that there are no monsters.

  

  Karl Marx
  • Believe
  • Eyes
  • Magic

• My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Time
  • History
  • Earth

• Dearest,although everything has happened,nothing has happened.

  

  Anne Sexton

• Meaning grows in the mind, but the shape and form of the act remains.

  

  Ralph Ellison
  • Mind

• Growing up, I always considered the Grand Ole Opry to be hallowed ground.

  

  Chris Lane
  • Up
  • Growing

• If people did not compliment one another there would be little society.

  

  Luc de Clapiers
  • People
  • Society

• I don't like selling myself. It's a sort of shy arrogance.

  

  David Farr

• You go for an audition, and you meet a director, and you find that they don't want you. You have to have a pull with them: that they understand what you want to bring to it. That you don't want to be the pretty little thing.

  

  Neve McIntosh
  • Pretty

• I work closely with the printer to get the final print the way I want it.

  

  Buffy Sainte-Marie
  • Work

• A nation may be said to consist of its territory, its people, and its laws. The territory is the only part which is of certain durability. 'One generation passeth away and another generation cometh, but the earth abideth forever.' It is of the first importance to duly consider and estimate this ever-enduring part.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • May
  • Earth

• Let your trouble be Light will follow dark Though the heaven falls You may hear the lark.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Heaven
  • Trouble
  • Lark

• My policy has been, and will continue to be, while I have the honor to remain in the administration of the government, to be upon friendly terms with, but independent of, all the nations of the earth. To share in the broils of none. To fulfil our own engagements. To supply the wants, and be carriers for them all: Being thoroughly convinced that it is our policy and interest to do so.

  

  George Washington
  • Earth
  • Independent
  • Honor

• If you look at any station, you will see that what people are reporting comes from what they believe in, where they stand, their background, what their countries believe in.

  

  Margarita Simonyan
  • People
  • Believe

• This is where I begin to do the writing. I am now going to be the pen and not the paper.

  

  Peter Greenaway
  • Writing

• For myself, if I am to stake all I have and hope to be upon anything, I will venture it upon the abounding fullness of God - upon the assurance that, as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are His ways higher than our ways, and His thoughts than our thoughts.

  

  Henry Norris Russell
  • Earth
  • Heaven
  • Higher