William Graham Sumner Quotes
Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.William Graham Sumner
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Great men marry great women.
Ilyasah Shabazz -
What is important is to believe in something so strongly that you're never discouraged.
Salma Hayek -
When I was a kid, the miracles of my life were the Resurrection, a candlelight service on New Year's Eve, the Virgin Birth, and the Three Wise Men.
Dan Brown -
A mother deserves a day off to care for a sick child or sick parent without running into hardship - and you know what, a father does, too. It's time to do away with workplace policies that belong in a 'Mad Men' episode.
Barack Obama -
I believe a true Hindu in India could never have endorsed the killing of the Mahatma.
Kapil Sibal -
Men view life to be as precious as women do, and to say that men have a more violent nature is insulting to men.
Tammy Duckworth
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I see when men love women. They give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.
Oscar Wilde -
On the subject of religious belief, we relax standards of reasonableness and evidence that we rely on in every other area of our lives. We relax so totally that people believe the most ludicrous propositions, and are willing to organize their lives around them.
Sam Harris -
I would say probably my least favorite costume ever was in 'Van Helsing.' That was a huge pain because it had thigh-high boots with 30 buckles on them that had to be done up individually.
Kate Beckinsale -
I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.
N. T. Wright -
Kids today don't want to get married. Too many of their friends have been married and divorced already. They just don't believe in it.
Wally Schirra -
A nation is a totality of men united through community of fate into a community of character.
Otto Bauer
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I like men in suits. Men in suits I think are so sexy. But I love men in suits who own their own businesses. That's even sexier... I just love a guy who has his own thing going on and believes in it.
Nadine Velazquez -
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits?
Carl Sagan -
Men are often a lot less vindictive than women are, because we are rejected constantly every day.
Warren Farrell -
Every time I would open my mouth to sing, everybody was paying attention to me. It became a habit.
Nana Mouskouri -
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
Saint Augustine -
I believe that love and laughter can only happen when one person takes the time to think about what would cause the other person to feel good.
Yakov Smirnoff
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To rein a kingdom efficiently it is necessary, before all, to put into good order the family. It's impossible for a man who doesn't know how to lead his own family to know how to lead a country.
Confucius -
It was a decision to work clean. I just prefer to work that way. I have no problem with comedians who don't work that way. There was a temptation in the early '70s to reconsider. I decided against it.
Bob Newhart -
No, I'm not running for office someday.
Chris Hughes -
One of the most important principles of success is developing the habit of going the extra mile.
Napoleon Hill -
Men educated in [the critical habit of thought]are slow to believe. They can hold things as possible or probable in all degrees, without certainty and without pain.
William Graham Sumner