William Winwood Reade Quotes
The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.William Winwood Reade
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
Waris Dirie -
I wrote for nearly six hours. When I stopped, the dark mood, as if by magic, had folded its cloak and gone away.
Zane Grey -
I get breakfast when everyone else is on their lunch break. I usually go to Dimes, which is a short walk from my apartment. Usually, I'll have chia pudding or an acai bowl and toast and sausage.
Tavi Gevinson -
I worry that my daughters are too taken care of.
Rachel Roy -
I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
J. D. Vance -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston
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I don't like allegories.
J. R. R. Tolkien -
A lot of news is just entertainment masquerading as news.
Nate Silver -
Though politics is by nature divisive, surely we all can agree that foster children need stability, safety, education, opportunity - and love.
Vanessa Diffenbaugh -
I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
Taylor Sheridan -
To take part in this brothel through the payment of my taxes, that had become to me unbearable.
Yannick Noah -
I couldn't speak any English when I first left Russia, and Intimissimi taught me everything. The team was like a family to me - they showed me how to model and how to stay in shape. They really believed in me.
Irina Shayk
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
Adam Jones -
I'm an all-or-nothing person.
Taylor Kitsch -
There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.
Aaron Rodgers -
We need to have women in more powerful positions that are making decisions, so when that 10-year-old girl is looking up and wondering, 'What can I do and what do I want to be when I get older?' She has the opportunity to do and be whatever she wants.
Abby Wambach -
There's very few dork movies made by dorks.
Zack Snyder -
It's very simple. You have to be faithful to your other half and not have secrets. That's my rule.
Irina Shayk
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I can never find the right bras.
Kate Upton -
It's a great opportunity when one gets something new to grasp, and I feel we should just grab it.
Yami Gautam -
I'm not sure why I'm so often disgusting on stage. I don't always know where it comes from.
Louis C. K. -
I had to watch government fail for 25 years doing consumer reporting before I really saw it because intuitively, the reaction is problem, bring government and government will make it better.
John Stossel -
Now perhaps an excessive dread of overpopulation--overcrowding--reflects not an outward reality, but an inward state of mind. If you feel overcrowded when you're not, what does that mean? Maybe that you're afraid of human contact--of being close to people, of being touched.
Ursula K. Le Guin -
The essence of religion is inertia; the essence of science is change. It is the function of the one to preserve, it is the function of the other to improve. If, as in Egypt, they are firmly chained together, either science will advance, in which case the religion will be altered, or the religion will preserve its purity, and science will congeal.
William Winwood Reade