William Manchester Quotes

He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

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• Yes, I can speak a bit and I can read and write in Russian. I learned it from my grandmother who raised me with all the Russian fairytales.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Me
  • Speak
  • Grandmother

• Gay kids need to stop killing themselves because they are made to feel worthless by cruel and relentless bullying.

  

  Zachary Quinto
  • Kids
  • Stop
  • Gay

• One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.

  

  Orison Swett Marden
  • Country
  • Greatest
  • Grit

• Truth isn't always beauty, but the hunger for it is.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • Truth
  • Beauty
  • Hunger

• People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.

  

  Adam Grant
  • People
  • Believe
  • Children

• If I'm coming in at 4:00 in the morning and my kids have been in bed since 8:00, 9:00, that's not setting a good example. The responsibility that I have kids inside my household has made me realize now that I have to be an example.

  

  Gary Sheffield
  • Good
  • Kids
  • Me

• It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Money
  • Attention

• Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.

  

  Maluma
  • Parents
  • Me
  • Watch

• Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

  

  Tariq Ramadan
  • Mother
  • Hope
  • Communication

• Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.

  

  Gary Locke
  • People
  • Life
  • Great

• The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Life
  • Man
  • Morning

• I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Think
  • You
  • Enough

• I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.

  

  P. J. Harvey
  • People
  • Music
  • Find

• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Religion
  • Ego
  • Losing

• It is not our sexual preferences, the color of our skin, the language we speak, nor the religion we practice that creates friction, hatred and wars amongst in society. It is our words and the words of our leaders that can create that disparity.

  

  Yehuda Berg
  • Society
  • Words
  • Practice

• Paul Krugman is a danger to society!

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Society
  • Danger
  • Paul

• I'm in the middle of a 25-city book tour, and I like watching what people buy in bookstores. I see people buy books that I strongly suspect they will never read, and as an author, I must tell you, I don't mind this one bit. We buy books aspirationally.

  

  Gabrielle Zevin
  • People
  • Mind
  • Book

• I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.

  

  Carly Rae Jepsen
  • Like
  • Confidence
  • Cocky

• Euthanasia is a long, smooth-sounding word, and it conceals its danger as long, smooth words do, but the danger is there, nevertheless.

  

  Pearl S. Buck
  • Long
  • Words

• Forgiving those who hurt us is the key to personal peace.

  

  Ulysses G. Weatherly
  • Peace
  • Hurt

• I got great voice training in St. Mary’s Church, Wavertree, in Liverpool, when I was a lad. Dressing up in cassocks was all part of the fun. I used to earn sixpence a week and although I don’t go to church very much any more, 'Once In Royal David’s City' is still my favourite hymn.

  

  Holly Johnson Frankie Goes to Hollywood
  • Up
  • Great
  • Fun

• Many of our attempts to understand Christian faith have only cheapened it. I can no more understand the totality of God than the pancake I made for breakfast understands the complexity of me. The little we do understand, that grain of sand our minds are capable of grasping, those ideas such as God is good, God feels, God loves, God knows all, are enough to keep our hearts dwelling on His majesty and otherness forever.

  

  Donald Miller
  • Good
  • God
  • Faith

• He [Gen. Douglas MacArthur] never went to church, but he read the Bible every day and regarded himself as one of the world's two great defenders of Christendom. (The other was the pope.)

  

  William Manchester
  • Faith
  • Church
  • Pope