Herbert Spencer Quotes

The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

Herbert Spencer

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• Morality
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• I realized pretty soon that I have to do more than just play bass in the background way. So, I developed a kind of playing which only a handful of musicians accepted.

  

  Eberhard Weber
  • Pretty
  • Kind
  • Play

• Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.

  

  Nancy Duarte
  • Moment
  • Become
  • Significance

• I want to play interesting women.

  

  Rachel Weisz
  • Women
  • Want
  • Interesting

• That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.

  

  Jacky Ickx
  • Passion
  • Danger
  • Attraction

• With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.

  

  R. Kelly
  • Pretty
  • Song
  • Gift

• I had an excellent math and physics teacher in high school named T.C. Patel, and in the university, I had truly dedicated professors in both physics and mathematics who gave me a sound foundation with which to pursue graduate studies.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • School
  • High
  • Teacher

• We are not in the regime of Aurangzeb. We are in the regime of rule of law. When rule of law is concerned, it applies to government, it applies to Supreme Court, it applies to everybody.

  

  Veerappa Moily
  • Law
  • Government
  • Rule Of Law

• I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.

  

  Falk Hentschel
  • People
  • Think
  • Know

• The State, in choosing men to serve it, takes no notice of their opinions. If they be willing faithfully to serve it, that satisfies.

  

  Oliver Cromwell
  • Men
  • Opinions
  • Serve

• We fail to see that we can control our destiny; make ourselves do whatever is possible; make ourselves become whatever we long to be.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Long
  • Control
  • Destiny

• The stuff I write I'm very proud of, but I'm smart enough to know I'll never get on the cover of 'Rolling Stone' next to Elvis Costello.

  

  Dan Hill
  • Proud
  • Smart
  • Stone

• Today our approaches to children are fragmented and partial. Those who care for well children know little of children who are sick. The deep knowledge that comes from the intensive attempt to cure is separated from the knowledge of those whose main task is to teach.

  

  Margaret Mead
  • Children
  • Today
  • Knowledge

• I mean, can I really create a full, three-dimensional character? I don't know anymore. I'm certainly going to try.

  

  Bette Midler
  • Character

• We have a disease care system, not a health care system.

  

  Matthew Heineman
  • Health

• Entrepreneurs do not try and create new types of smartphone technologies now because they know it's pointless: They're going to get sued almost immediately.

  

  Charles Duhigg

• Create a garden; bring children to farms for field trips. I think it's important that parents and teachers get together to do one or two things they can accomplish well - a teaching garden, connecting with farms nearby, weave food into the curriculum.

  

  Alice Waters
  • Important
  • Children
  • Together

• I am a huge Idina Menzel fan. She's incredible.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • She

• The underlying part of any comprehensive immigration bill is family unit.

  

  Luis Gutierrez
  • Family
  • Immigration

• I'm a health-food junkie, so all of my food is a splurge, money-wise!

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Money
  • Food
  • Health

• The more you worry, the more you throw off the delicate balance of hormones required for health.

  

  Andrew Bernstein
  • Health
  • Worry
  • Balance

• It's true that I love to connect with my fans on the social networking sites, but I try not to go overboard, ever. I just give people a peek into my mind space, but never bombard them with my tweets.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • People
  • Mind
  • Love

• Surely many courageous Christians spoke out against the savagery of their so-called civilized fellow Christians? And surely many compassionate Christians spoke out for the humanity of the so-called savages? Sadly, very, very few actually did, notable among them a Dominican friar, Bartolomé de las Casas.

  

  Brian D. McLaren
  • Humanity
  • Christians
  • Savages

• Even among the married, sexual satisfaction must not be sought in a way which disregards man's character as a person and degrades him to the animal level.

  

  Francis Arinze
  • Character
  • Persons
  • Married

• The preservation of health is a duty. Few seem conscious that there is such a thing as physical morality.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Health
  • Duty
  • Morality