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

• Building human-centered organizations doesn't imply a return to the paternalistic, corporate welfare practices of the 19th century. Most of us don't want to be nannied.

  

  Gary Hamel
  • Want
  • Building
  • Welfare

• 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

• During my first visit, I was really struck by how deeply religious many Oklahomans are. It is a very conservative state and as somebody who grew up in a very liberal country, it was jarring to me at first.

  

  Famke Janssen
  • Up
  • Country
  • Me

• 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

• I'm a third-generation American, so I like that American-looking, Northwestern style with a flannel or jean shirt.

  

  Cody Horn
  • American
  • Style

• For many playwrights, they write the plays anyway because they've got to be, the work has been started, it's got to be finished, but we all long, I think, to see the plays fleshed out on stage and I'm exactly like that. Yes, I'm not satisfied until I actually see it on stage.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Long
  • Play
  • Stage

• News has become entertainment. Once that happens, a whole series of horrific events start to happen, whether it's the lack of dissemination of something that can inform you or something that actually negatively impacts society.

  

  Dan Gilroy Breakfast Club
  • Society
  • Start
  • News

• It takes a good habit to replace a bad habit.

  

  Melody Carlson
  • Girl
  • Habits
  • Teenage

• 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