Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher Quotes
It is a terrible commentary on Christian civilization that the longest period of slave-raiding known to history was initiated by the action of Spain, Portugal, France, Holland and Britain, after the Christian faith had for more than a thousand years been the established religion of Europe.
Herbert Albert Laurens Fisher
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What I'm most pleased about is that there's no particular decline. The songs I wrote 40 years ago are no worse and no better - there's a consistency.
Randy Newman
I have never denied my background or my culture. I have taught my child to embrace her Mexican heritage, to love my first language, Spanish, to learn about Mexican history, music, folk art, food, and even the Mexican candy I grew up with.
Salma Hayek
It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
Eddie Cantor
There's a reason you can still read Thucydides, and it still makes sense to you thousands of years later.
D. B. Weiss
The history of philosophy is not, like the history of the sciences, to be studied with the intellect alone. That which is receptive in us and that which impinges upon us from history is the reality of man's being, unfolding itself in thought.
Karl Jaspers
Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.
D. Elton Trueblood
All through history, a nation or a civilization's enduring glory is articulated by its mega constructions - the pyramids, the lofty cathedrals of the Christian world.
F. Sionil Jose
My problem with new writers is that it takes me five or six years to memorise the right names.
Larry Niven
Action is no less necessary than thought to the instinctive tendencies of the human frame.
Mahatma Gandhi
Maimed but still magnificent... Europe's mightiest medieval cathedral.
R. W. Apple, Jr.
Be yourself. I had this three-week period where I wore this straw fedora. I thought it was what chicks wanted. And then it dawned on me that I was trying to be something that I wasn't, so I took the fedora off. So be yourself.
Adam DeVine
Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history. We, of this Congress and this administration, will be remembered in spite of ourselves. No personal significance, or insignificance, can spare one or another of us. The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation.
Abraham Lincoln
