Herbert Spencer Quotes

All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.

Herbert Spencer

• Evil
• Cold
• Poor
• Circumstances
• Constitution
• Harmony

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• Western Christians have imagined that, at the end of the day, God is going to throw the present space-time universe into a trashcan and we'll be sitting on clouds playing harps. The ultimate future that we're promised is much more interesting than that. It's new heavens and a new Earth with new bodies to live in.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • God
  • Live

• I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.

  

  Dana Perino
  • Believe
  • I Believe
  • Inspire

• The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.

  

  Dale Carnegie
  • Never
  • Boat
  • Dare

• I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.

  

  Nancy Pickard
  • Writing
  • Family
  • Know

• What the future of the planet and music and art and all of it is sharing; it's diversity.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Music
  • Art
  • Future

• Winners never quit and quitters never win.

  

  Vince Lombardi
  • Never
  • Sports
  • Win

• The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

  

  Hank Aaron
  • Why
  • Home
  • Sports

• When I was young, a lot of things were closed off to me. I was always told, 'Don't do this, you can't do that' – instead of stopping me, it made me think, 'I can do that, I must do that.'

  

  Omar Sy
  • Think
  • Always
  • Young

• I gain strength from postive thought and from the daily conversation with God.

  

  Ottmar Hitzfeld
  • God
  • Daily
  • Strength

• Money is not the only answer, but it makes a difference.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Money
  • Difference
  • Only

• I love animals, and I feel more of a connection to animals than people.

  

  Kaley Cuoco
  • People
  • Connection
  • Animals

• Murder is born of love, and love attains the greatest intensity in murder.

  

  Octave Mirbeau
  • Love
  • Born
  • For Her

• I came from a crew, and to me, all the guys I rapped with were better than me, so I was surprised when I was the breakout one. It was definitely a cool thing.

  

  Queen Latifah
  • Cool
  • Better
  • Guys

• I was really trying to sell to people who hate jazz: to make a case for the art form as youthful and energetic, not the sort of rarified intellectual activity it's painted as.

  

  Damien Chazelle
  • People
  • Trying
  • Art

• Within the process of filming, unexpected situations occur.

  

  Ralph Fiennes
  • Process
  • Unexpected
  • Within

• My mum was my inspiration. As cliche as that sounds, she was the reason that we started. She chose cycling to lose weight. I was only eight at the time, so I just followed what my mum did.

  

  Laura Trott
  • Reason
  • Inspiration
  • Lose

• We've all seen 'Jewing it up' performances. They are about as miserable to watch as as 'camping it up' performances when representing gays.

  

  Patrick Marber
  • Up
  • Camping

• Certainly nobody under 21 should have an AR-15.

  

  Pat Roberts

• I enjoy some physical stuff. But if I had a choice between playing a scene where it's raining, it's terribly cold, I'm wet and I'm being drowned and playing a scene with dinosaur eggs in a laboratory, I'd probably take the latter. It's warmer and generally more comfortable!

  

  Sam Neill
  • Enjoy
  • Cold
  • Choice

• One winter night, at half past nine, Cold, tired, and cross, and muddy, I had come home, too late to dine

  

  Lewis Carroll
  • Home
  • Night
  • Past

• We recognize the force of the argument that the effects of war under modern conditions may be felt in the economy for years and years, and that if the war power can be used in days of peace to treat all the wounds which war inflicts on our society, it may not only swallow up all other powers of Congress but largely obliterate the Ninth and the Tenth Amendments as well.

  

  William O. Douglas
  • Power
  • War
  • Constitution

• All evil results from the non-adaptation of constitution to conditions. This is true of everything that lives. Does a shrub dwindle in poor soil, or become sickly when deprived of light, or die outright if removed to a cold climate? it is because the harmony between its organization and its circumstances has been destroyed.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Evil
  • Cold
  • Poor