Noah Feldman Quotes

Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.

Noah Feldman

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• We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.

  

  T. J. Miller
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• Statesmanship is harder than politics. Politics is the art of getting along with people, whereas statesmanship is the art of getting along with politicians.

  

  Fletcher Knebel
  • People
  • Art
  • Politics

• In particular, I found praying very disturbing, like swimming with bricks tied to your feet. And yet I was drawn to it constantly.

  

  Jack Dee
  • Feet
  • Swimming
  • Bricks

• The generous way of putting it is that we were not ready for this. The less generous way is to say: How was it possible to return to the politics of appeasement of the 1930s?

  

  Paddy Ashdown
  • Way
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  • Ready

• You do good work for a long-enough time, I believed, and you'd get noticed.

  

  Yiannis Chryssomallis
  • Time
  • Good
  • Work

• The reform of a college English department cuts no ice down at the corner garage.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • College
  • English

• If it be asked, What is the most sacred duty and the greatest source of our security in a Republic? The answer would be, An inviolable respect for the Constitution and Laws - the first growing out of the last... A sacred respect for the constitutional law is the vital principle, the sustaining energy of a free government.

  

  Alexander Hamilton
  • Free
  • Energy
  • Law

• Each person's greatest room for growth is in the areas of his or her greatest strength.

  

  Marcus Buckingham
  • Growth

• But the most important test is to take them on tour and see if you can bear to spend time with them.

  

  Neville Marriner
  • Time
  • Important

• When I talk to youngsters today, especially those involved in athletics, I tell them to get their education first.

  

  Ken Norton
  • Today
  • Education

• Through decentralized cryptography, Bitcoin eliminates the need for banking intermediaries, significantly lowering transaction costs, and could liberate poverty-stricken economies around the globe by providing access to capital to the one-third of humanity that is excluded from the financial world.

  

  Perianne Boring
  • World
  • Humanity
  • Poverty

• The things a young woman goes through between the ages of 18 and 20 are far different than what a young woman can go through between 20 and 22.

  

  Dolores O'Riordan The Cranberries
  • Different

• It's so hard to cover Trump. What Trump says, what he feels, what he thinks changes from day to day.

  

  David Fahrenthold
  • Trump

• Whenever you do a film for the wrong reasons, it may or it may not pan out. Sometimes people do it because it is a good move or the right move. I don't know; maybe one day I will do a film for the wrong reasons, and it will work for me.

  

  Alia Bhatt
  • People
  • Good
  • Work

• I'm going to be who I am and believe in what I bring to the table every day.

  

  Brock Osweiler
  • Believe

• At one point I couldn't move or get out of bed or anything. I developed blood clots because I'd been completely inactive. Then they thought - because the pain was so much - I had an infection in the bones, so they gave me pills, which gave me a tummy infection. It's like a French farce.

  

  Andrew Lloyd Webber
  • Pain

• I was an only child for 15 years and then this lovely present, Fred, came along. It was great - it meant I had my teenage years with a little one around.

  

  Emilia Fox
  • Great
  • Present

• Old age is far more than white hair, wrinkles, the feeling that it is too late and the game finished, that the stage belongs to the rising generations. The true evil is not the weakening of the body, but the indifference of the soul.

  

  Andre Maurois
  • True
  • Age
  • Soul

• Oh, love is timid in its birth!Watching her lightest look or stir,As he but look'd and breathed with her.Gay words were passing, but he leantIn silence; yet, one quick glance sent,-His secret is no more his own,When has woman her power not known?

  

  Letitia Elizabeth Landon
  • Power
  • Words
  • Gay

• Darkness is to space what silence is to sound, i.e., the interval.

  

  Marshall McLuhan
  • Space
  • Silence

• I think that a good person can sometimes do wrong out of ignorance or weakness or wrong thinking, but when hard times come, the goodness wins out after all. And a bad person can often seem good and trustworthy for a long time, but when hard times come, the evil in him gets revealed.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Time
  • Good
  • Thinking

• The freedom of birds is an insult to me. I'd have them all in zoos. - The judge.

  

  Cormac McCarthy
  • Freedom
  • Judge

• My mother has always been the point I calibrated myself against. In knowing where she was, I could always locate myself, as well. These months she'd been gone, I felt like I'd been floating, loose and boundaryless, but now that I knew where she was, I kept waiting for a kind of certainty to kick in. It didn't. Instead, I was more unsure than ever, stuck between this new life and the one I'd left behind.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Mother
  • Waiting
  • Behinds

• Mormonism was born amid secrecy, and throughout its existence as a religion it has sustained a close yet complex relationship to the arts of silence.

  

  Noah Feldman
  • Silence
  • Secrecy
  • Mormonism