Allen Wheelis Quotes
Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.Allen Wheelis
Quotes to Explore
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I have been the struggler of the century. Fortunately, everyone loves the underdog.
Kangana Ranaut -
As regards parents, I should like to see them as highly educated as possible, and I do not restrict this remark to fathers alone.
Quintilian -
Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.
Salman Rushdie -
Victory Over Violence is an organization that was created to help fund shelters for women and children.
Victoria Principal -
An art aims, above all, at producing something beautiful which affects not our feelings but the organ of pure contemplation, our imagination.
Eduard Hanslick -
The moment you enlist in the army of God, you personally become a target. You need to remember that if you're living for and walking with Jesus Christ, the powers of darkness are aligned against you.
Walter Martin
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Any time that you can give the consumer more of what they want, it's a good thing. I said from Day 1 that the unbundling of the album is a good thing.
Edgar Bronfman, Jr. -
Well, it really describes what it feels like to be a normal person whose boss and friend suddenly runs for the president, and then becomes the president.
Karen Hughes -
Sugarcoating doesn't do anybody any good.
Taylor Sheridan -
I got married because I wanted to do something that was more than I understood, because my feelings were more than I understood.
Mandy Patinkin -
The best thing about art is that it is the one luxury in life that can be enjoyed by everyone. And it lasts forever.
Lynda Resnick -
I stick to what got me here and what I know best. That's the same routine. I'm not going to vary it.
Freddie Freeman
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me the happiest, but those in which a long struggle of adaptation between man and his environment has brought out the best qualities of both.
T. S. Eliot -
If, as I suspect, my body survives by uttering itself over and over again, then I have some questions. If [I] am one word, so are my daughters, so are all of us in strings and loops. Each life is one short word slowly uttered.
Louise Erdrich -
I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
Calvin Klein -
We're attracted to bad guys, and we like to follow bad guys, because they do things that we want to do but just don't do, for whatever reasons.
Geoffrey Gray -
I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
Dan Brown -
We always did our own mixing.
Stephen Malkmus Pavement
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Clearly it is not reason that has failed. What has failed-as it has always failed-is the attempt to achieve certainty, to reach an absolute, to find the course of human events to a final end. It is not reason that has promised to eliminate risk in human undertakings; it is the emotional needs of men.
Allen Wheelis