Michael Novak Quotes

Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.

Michael Novak

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• In combat sports, personalities are what draw.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Sports
  • Draw
  • Personalities

• Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • Up
  • Happy
  • Happiness

• When Barack Obama was elected, it immediately brought out all the differences in society.

  

  Wadada Leo Smith
  • Society
  • Differences
  • Out

• I still live in Inglewood and have a great relationship with my Mexican family.

  

  Becky G
  • Great
  • Live
  • Family

• The film industry has been extremely welcoming to me. It's an industry which is biased to what they think is talent. If they think you can bring value to cinema, they'll support you.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Support
  • Value
  • Talent

• You can forgive yourself a great deal.

  

  Eddie Albert
  • Great
  • Yourself
  • Forgive

• Even atheists rebel and express, like Hardy and Housman, their rage against God although (or because) He does not, on their view, exist...

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Rebel

• Monetarism is dead and the alien doctrines of Friedman and Hayek remain only to be buried.

  

  Edward Heath
  • Alien

• Fear arises sooner than anything else.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Fear

• Yeah, two or three weeks ago I was fairly snappy. I've never been injured before and this year it feels like I've hardly played.

  

  Lee Westwood

• There's not a sport or activity in life where you have a really hard grip, you actually do better. Whether it's baseball or golf or kicking a ball, the looser you are, the further the thing goes... If you're tight, you're not necessarily better.

  

  Lloyd Blankfein
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • Golf

• I don't know if I feel a responsibility to encourage women, I just do! Yes, I think all of us chicks should be inspired and create! In whatever way that inspiration comes, we should shine! Honestly, I feel the same way about men.

  

  Angela Bettis
  • Men
  • Women
  • Responsibility

• I wish I had more time to read. I'm always traveling.

  

  Andrew Hozier-Byrne
  • Time
  • Wish

• Sinatra was somebody special.

  

  Don Rickles

• The machine has had a pernicious effect upon virtue, pity, and love, and young men used to machines which induce inertia, and fear, are near impotent.

  

  Edward Dahlberg
  • Men
  • Fear

• A fresh mind keeps the body fresh. Take in the ideas of the day, drain off those of yesterday. As to the morrow, time enough to consider it when it becomes today.

  

  Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Today

• We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp.

  

  Bubba Smith
  • Training

• If I ran a national burger franchise - which I don't - I'd make it a rule that no two customers can be greeted with precisely the same words and that every third customer must be grossly insulted as a matter of course. Just to keep the atmosphere nice and lively. And to keep the staff laughing.

  

  Charlie Brooker
  • Words
  • Nice

• We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.

  

  Gail Sheehy
  • Fear
  • Choices
  • Chance

• I am actually very well-organized. All I need to do is open my closet and just choose. But, you see, although I carry many different choices with me, I always end up wearing a tank top, jeans and sneakers.

  

  Kristen Stewart
  • Up
  • Different
  • Choices

• Zach Palmer, who was half human and half—we weren’t really sure what, including the possibility that the other half might be human as well.

  

  Ben Aaronovitch
  • Human
  • Possibility
  • Half

• Unity in diversity is the highest possible attainment of a civilization, a testimony to the most noble possibilities of the human race. This attainment is made possible through passionate concern for choice, in an atmosphere of social trust.

  

  Michael Novak
  • Choices
  • Humans
  • Diversity