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.
Quotes to Explore
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
-
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.
-
I never really thought of myself as being an action hero or a leading man or any of that. I'm a character actor.
-
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.
-
Let's create a legal system that can work.
-
Without literature my life would be miserable.
-
Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct.
-
One of the hardest tasks is to extract continually from one's soul an almost inexhaustible ill will.
-
Western films don't do very well in India.
-
Tomorrow will be like today. Life wastes itself whilst we are preparing to live.
-
Keep cool: it will be all one a hundred years hence.
-
The Eagle soars in the summit of Heaven, The Hunter with his dogs pursues his circuit.
-
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.
-
Mo: Thank you, Jillian, for that fascinating, uh, transsexual version of the Oedipus legend, 'Oedipal Complex.'
-
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.
-
I am obsessed with Neil Patrick Harris on Twitter.
-
Pittsburgh isn't fancy, but it is real. It's a working town and money doesn't come easy. I feel as much a part of this city as the cobblestone streets and the steel mills, people in this town expect an honest day's work, and I've it to them for a long, long time.
-
If you tell a lie to make a person better, then that is not a sin.
-
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.
