Antonin Sertillanges Quotes

We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

Antonin Sertillanges

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• You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.

  

  Rachel Griffiths
  • Up
  • Small
  • Know

• Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.

  

  Nan Hayworth
  • Care
  • Accept
  • Doctors

• We don't want to create a literary ghetto in which black writers are only allowed to write black characters and women writers are put on 'girl books.'

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • Women
  • Black
  • Girl

• I have always been interested in politics. I was in the student union before, very active.

  

  Abdullah Ahmad Badawi
  • Always
  • Politics
  • Student

• You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Home
  • Sunset
  • Sunrise

• As the ratings go up, so does advertising revenue.

  

  Brown Campbell
  • Up
  • Go
  • Advertising

• I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.

  

  Candace Kita
  • Model
  • First
  • Texas

• The commitments, schedule and sponsor appearances don't change. It gets more busy, because you get more popular, and the more popular you are, it actually gets more busy. They're like, 'Yeah, let's use her, she's hot right now. Let's do a shoot!'

  

  Danica Patrick
  • Change
  • Popular
  • Busy

• I do all these various activities like painting and writing, comedy and films probably because not that I'm good at everything but because I'm not good at any of these things.

  

  Takeshi Kitano
  • Good
  • Writing
  • Comedy

• What used to drive me was the fact that I wanted to be better than everybody at something. One of my best qualities is that I used whatever other people found to be an adverse thing to be a positive thing for myself.

  

  Daley Thompson
  • People
  • Myself
  • Best

• Killing people because you don't like their ideas - it's a bad thing.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Bad
  • Ideas

• Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.

  

  Garry Trudeau
  • Time
  • You
  • Sexuality

• The most famous Obama precept is, 'No drama.'

  

  Dan Pfeiffer
  • Drama
  • Famous
  • Precept

• When I'm working in the studio, I like to be on my own because I don't know where I'm going; I want to be completely free to spend lots of time on songs.

  

  Yann Tiersen
  • Time
  • Want
  • Free

• I don't think that you can let the storms of life overwhelm you. When you do that, you are no better than the craziness that caused you to be under attack.

  

  T. D. Jakes
  • Life
  • Think
  • Better

• It was on the first day of Beltaine, that is called now May Day, the Tuatha de Danaan came, and it was to the north-west of Connacht they landed. But the Firbolgs, the Men of the Bag, that were in Ireland before them, and that had come from the South, saw nothing but a mist, and it lying on the hills.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Men
  • May
  • Day

• In the end, the railroads made America and nanotech will make the 21st century, and that is the end of the story. The beginning of the story and the end of the story.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • America
  • Beginning
  • End

• I'm about caring, I'm about people, and I'm about entertaining people. I'm a family man. A husband. A father. I've been a lot of other things over the years, which we don't really want to talk about.

  

  Ozzy Osbourne Black Sabbath
  • People
  • Family
  • Father

• Children in schools need to have something to do with music and learn it the way they do literature, geography and biology.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • Music
  • Children
  • Learn

• Today it is becoming harder to speak out, with the inception of the Patriot Act, the president has legislated free speech to be a crime.

  

  Frank Serpico
  • Today
  • Free

• Cambridge was the place for someone from the Colonies or the Dominions to go on to, and it was to the Cavendish Laboratory that one went to do physics.

  

  Aaron Klug
  • Go
  • Physics
  • Colonies

• The discovery of the power of our thoughts will prove to be the most important discovery of our time

  

  William James
  • Important
  • Positive
  • Prove

• A Positive Mental Attitude is the right mental attitude. What is the right mental attitude? It is most often comprised of the "plus" characteristics symbolized by such words as faith, integrity, hope, optimism, courage, initiative, generosity, tolerance, tact, kindliness, and good common sense. A person with positive mental attitude aims for high goals and constantly strives to achieve them.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Good
  • High
  • Hope

• We must beware of yielding to the pressure of a spirit of cowardly conformity which proclaims itself everybody's friend in the hope that everybody will obligingly return the compliment.

  

  Antonin Sertillanges
  • Hope
  • Pressure
  • Return