William Ernest Hocking Quotes

Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

William Ernest Hocking

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• I was a little hesitant at first because there's so many ways you can get 'Straight Outta Compton' wrong. You know, it's such a great story; it's such a classic tale. I was a little nervous 'cause it's like a very narrow road to success with that type of story - you got to get it right - but when I read it, I was pleasantly surprised.

  

  F. Gary Gray
  • Great
  • Success
  • Road

• Surprisingly, I'm not a fan of guns or anything like that!

  

  Caitlin Stasey
  • Like
  • Fan
  • Guns

• Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.

  

  Nas
  • You
  • Struggle
  • Appreciate

• The Palestinian Authority gets money from the American taxpayer.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Money
  • American
  • Authority

• Positive thinking will let you use the ability which you have, and that is awesome.

  

  Zig Ziglar
  • Thinking
  • You
  • Positive

• The Milky Way is nothing else but a mass of innumerable stars planted together in clusters.

  

  Galileo Galilei
  • Together
  • Way
  • Stars

• There's nothing that will change someone's moral outlook quicker than cash in large sums.

  

  Larry Flynt
  • Change
  • Moral
  • Nothing

• New Zealanders have conventions and pleasantries, but we are direct. We are encouraged to be transparent with our behavior and not to employ passive aggression.

  

  Daniel Gillies
  • New
  • Behavior
  • Passive

• You have two alternatives. One: you can put your life on hold and wait for the phone to ring. Two: you run ahead as if your life depended on it.

  

  Carlo Rubbia
  • Life
  • Run
  • Wait

• I remember when I first came to Liverpool, Pepe Reina helped with everything, and he made it easy for me. When I was Atletico Madrid captain, I tried to help everyone. These are the basics in football: you need to create an atmosphere and try to create a group of friends. It's not easy, and it doesn't always happen, but you have to try.

  

  Fernando Torres
  • Friends
  • Remember
  • Help

• You think of movies like 'Midnight Run' and '48 Hours', those are great movies, especially 'Midnight Run.'

  

  Adam McKay
  • Great
  • Think
  • Movies

• America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.

  

  Wayne Grady
  • America
  • Hope
  • Culture

• The friends I knew who tutored were well paid for work that seemed far less grueling than waitressing or late-night newspaper copy editing or all the other side gigs I attempted in my early twenties.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Work
  • Friends
  • Night

• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Career
  • Acting
  • Aesthetic

• This uprising of 1976-77 was, of course, the historic watershed... Within a short period of time, it propelled into the forefront of our struggle millions of young people.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • People
  • Time
  • Struggle

• I only get angry at my brothers and at my father.

  

  Malala Yousafzai
  • Father
  • Angry
  • Brothers

• Americans are xenophobic, they will believe their own people rather than the adversary, even a friendly enemy voice.

  

  Hanoi Hannah
  • People
  • Believe
  • Enemy

• All women are wonders because they reduce all men to the obvious.

  

  Daniel Mainwaring
  • Men
  • Women

• The line is a way of thinking in poetry, by poetry..it paces the poem.

  

  Edward Hirsch
  • Thinking
  • Poetry

• The American mind, unlike the English, is not formed by books, but, as Carl Sandburg once said to me... by newspapers and the Bible.

  

  Van Wyck Brooks
  • Mind
  • American
  • English

• Publicly I'm a very modest dresser, by Hollywood's standards.

  

  Mayim Bialik

• Is there any more mysterious idea for an artist than the conception of how nature is mirrored in the eyes of an animal? How does a horse see the world, or an eagle, or a doe, or a dog?

  

  Franz Marc
  • World
  • Nature
  • Eyes

• Man is the only animal that contemplates death, and also the only animal that shows any sign of doubt of its finality.

  

  William Ernest Hocking
  • Men
  • Death
  • Doubt