Andrew Delbanco Quotes
Beecher described slavery as an 'organic sin,' by which he meant that a sing that permeates the body politic so completely that it cannot be cured by targeted excision but must be overwhelmed with an infusion of love.Andrew Delbanco
Quotes to Explore
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Individual science fiction stories may seem as trivial as ever to the blinder critics and philosophers of today - but the core of science fiction, its essence has become crucial to our salvation if we are to be saved at all.
Isaac Asimov -
As long as a film stays unmade, the book is entirely yours, it belongs to the writer. As soon as you make it into a film, suddenly more people see it than have ever read the book.
Iain Banks -
Whereas, generally speaking, zinc reacts suitably only with the first members of the alkyl iodides, with magnesium it is possible to use bromides, iodides, and in many cases, chlorides.
Victor Grignard -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
Sometimes I sit down to dinner with people and I realize there is a massive military machine surrounding us, trying to kill the people I'm having dinner with.
Rachel Corrie -
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
Aaron Paul
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There are no silos at 'Frontline.' Our digital team works with our filmmakers, and our filmmakers work with our digital team. They're always in touch, and they're always talking.
Raney Aronson-Rath -
Let's create a legal system that can work.
Sam Brownback -
Without literature my life would be miserable.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
F. H. Bradley -
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
Victor Hugo -
Western films don't do very well in India.
Baz Luhrmann
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Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
T. S. Eliot -
The turtle trapped 'twixt plated decks Doth practically conceal its sex I think it clever of the turtle In such a fix to be so fertile.
Ogden Nash -
Mo: Thank you, Jillian, for that fascinating, uh, transsexual version of the Oedipus legend, 'Oedipal Complex.'
Alison Bechdel -
I may not remember the name of a book's author, but let it be clear, what I will not forget is the violence, the poverty and the desperation that Mexico is living through.
Enrique Pena Nieto
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It's not a burning ambition for me to make sure that David Beckham earns less money.
Tony Blair -
It could be that all awful dictators are frustrated artists - Mao with his poetry and Mussolini with his monuments. Stalin was once a journalistic hack, and I can personally testify to how frustrated they are. Pol Pot left a very edgy photo collection behind. And Osama seems quite interested in video.
P. J. O'Rourke -
What I hope is, over time, users should not have to read a training manual. They should say, 'I totally get the Workday iPad app, because it runs the way my consumer apps run.'
Aneel Bhusri -
Appalachia, my state, eastern Kentucky, has a large amount of poverty.
Rand Paul -
Beecher described slavery as an 'organic sin,' by which he meant that a sing that permeates the body politic so completely that it cannot be cured by targeted excision but must be overwhelmed with an infusion of love.
Andrew Delbanco