Tertullian Quotes

Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

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• You can be anything. You could be the President of the United States or the inventor of the next Internet or a ninja cardio-thoracic surgeon poet, which would be awesome because you would be the first one.

  

  Cameron Russell
  • Internet
  • Awesome
  • Surgeon

• ChicagoNEXT is focused on making Chicago the best possible place for technology entrepreneurs.

  

  J. B. Pritzker
  • Technology
  • Best
  • Chicago

• I like what it is to sing, or to be with the others singing, to make music, but the fuss and all the things that are the exterior part of a career, has never interested me.

  

  Victoria de los Angeles
  • Music
  • Career
  • Interested

• I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.

  

  Sam Taylor-Johnson
  • Because
  • Keep
  • Annoying

• Country fans are the most loyal in the world, but they know every song that you put out - not just the singles.

  

  Madison Marlow
  • World
  • Country
  • Song

• Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.

  

  Dan Buettner
  • Way
  • Walking
  • Cognitive

• All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.

  

  Natalia Makarova
  • Life
  • Important
  • Chance

• Sure, we want to know what a president believes in... but that doesn't always mean he should tell us.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Want
  • Know
  • Always

• They can hop on a line and really dice it up out there.

  

  Adam Petty
  • Up
  • Really
  • Line

• 'Crash' is a metaphor for what I see as the dehumanizing elements that are present in the world in which we live. We're distanced by the nature of the society we inhabit from a normal human reaction.

  

  J. G. Ballard
  • World
  • Live
  • Nature

• We didn't readjust our thinking or rebuild quick enough.

  

  Wellington Mara
  • Thinking
  • Enough
  • Rebuild

• The grass roots are energized because the absolutely highest priority in the country in November is to defeat Barack Obama. I have spoken with literally thousands and thousands of tea-party activists - I have yet to meet a single tea-party leader that is not going to vote for Mitt Romney.

  

  Ted Cruz
  • Country
  • Party
  • Single

• Shaw presumes that his friend Stalin has everything under control. Well, Stalin may have made special arrangements to see that Shaw comes to no harm, but the rest of us in Western Europe do not feel quite so sure of our fate, especially those of us who do not share Shaw's curious admiration for dictators.

  

  J. B. Priestley
  • May
  • Control
  • Friend

• That’s the trouble with people like them, I suppose; whenever you think you’re detecting the first signs of them starting to behave responsibly, it’s just them being even more devious and underhand than usual.

  

  Iain Banks
  • People

• When … some intimation of the eternal significance of my time moves through the heart of my self, it must still battle a positivistic turn of mind and mean-spirited secularism that denies the existence of the holy.

  

  Sam Keen
  • Time
  • Mind
  • Heart

• Improve constantly and forever the system of production and service, to improve quality and productivity, and thus constantly decrease costs.

  

  W. Edwards Deming
  • Quality
  • Forever
  • Service

• ‘…The senior Mr Denham’s,’ he said, with deadly Eastern realism, ‘will perhaps only be better in the grave.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Senior

• German law takes precedence over sharia. The full face veil should be banned, wherever legally possible.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Law
  • German

• Every ideology is contrary to human psychology.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Psychology

• If that happens to us," she whispered, unable to wrap her mind around the idea of a life so long and so full of tragedy, "if we feel ourselves, who we are together, becoming lost in time, I don't want to Sleep. I want to say good-bye when I'm still me and you're still you.

  

  Nalini Singh
  • Life
  • Time
  • Good

• If you were to ask me to define a photograph in a few words, I would say it is a fossil of light and time.

  

  Daido Moriyama
  • Time
  • Words
  • Light

• What does a life of total dedication to truth mean? It means, first of all, a life of continuous and never-ending stringent self-examination. We know the world only through our relationship to it. Therefore, to know the world, we must not only examine it but we must simultaneously examine the examiner.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • Life
  • World
  • Truth

• Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?

  

  Matthew Prior
  • Life
  • Truth
  • Song

• Truth engenders hatred of truth. As soon as it appears, it is the enemy.

  

  Tertullian
  • Truth
  • Enemy
  • Appears