Richard John Neuhaus Quotes

The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

Richard John Neuhaus

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• I still feel like I'm alone at times - even if I'm in the midst of a million people. Because no one - including me - understands my mind creatively. I haven't really been formally introduced to my gift yet. I feel like I'm still on the runway.

  

  R. Kelly
  • People
  • Mind
  • Alone

• In fact, many nations currently refuse to support embryonic stem cell research of any kind.

  

  Nathan Deal
  • Support
  • Kind
  • Research

• When I wrote 'Green, Green,' it was like a really a statement of where I was at philosophically in my life.

  

  Barry McGuire
  • Life
  • My Life
  • Green

• If you want to eat well in England, eat three breakfasts.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Want
  • Food
  • Three

• You remember some bedrooms you have slept in. There are bedrooms you like to remember and others you would like to forget.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Remember
  • You
  • Forget

• I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

  

  Dan Quisenberry
  • Future
  • Like
  • Present

• There were two very distinct voices going on in my head and I moved easily between them. One had to do with sports, street life and establishing myself as a male... The other voice, the one I had from my street friends and teammates, was increasingly dealing with the vocabulary of literature.

  

  Walter Dean Myers
  • Life
  • Friends
  • Sports

• I definitely want to win a gold medal, that should be everybody's goal.

  

  Laura Wilkinson
  • Goal
  • Win
  • Gold

• We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.

  

  Malcolm X
  • People
  • Time
  • Man

• In England, we have this saying about Marmite: people either love it or hate it. That's like a lot of the movie work I've done. People either find it repulsive or find it really interesting and get engaged in it.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Work
  • Interesting

• There are other measures of self-respect for a man, than the number of clean shirts he puts on every day.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Man
  • Respect
  • Day

• I am not a director or a writer, but a filmmaker.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Writer
  • Director
  • Filmmaker

• I always laugh a lot when I see the dramas that I end up doing. I see myself behaving very seriously and I'm like, 'What is this?'

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
  • Up
  • Myself
  • End

• Middle-aged women have greater stability, they are more loyal, and their capacity for steady work is greater than that of younger women.

  

  Kate Smith
  • Work
  • Women
  • Stability

• I'm glad that our music motivates people to exercise. If I had to pick just one song to run to, it would be 'Violet' by Hole. It makes me want to run.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Music
  • Motivate

• Promotions are the worst part of making a movie. We are actors and not salesmen. Still, you have to go to so many places to try and sell the movie.

  

  Ranbir Kapoor
  • Movie
  • You
  • Try

• Every time that I write a novel I am convinced for at least two years that it is the last one, because a novel is like a child. It takes two years after its birth. You have to take care of it. It starts walking, and then speaking.

  

  Umberto Eco
  • Time
  • Child
  • Walking

• I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.

  

  Eddie Marsan
  • Men
  • Character
  • Friends

• I am certain that my white colleagues, when faced with an emergency situation, wouldn't think twice about calling the police. This, however, may not be the case for their black and Latino students.

  

  Carl Hart
  • May
  • Black
  • Police

• One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

  

  Mickey Kaus
  • Thinking
  • Development
  • Particular

• I’m pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.

  

  Evan Bayh
  • Politics
  • Americans
  • Public Policy

• I am both stunned and appalled that Pat Robertson would claim to know the mind of God concerning whether particular events... were the judgments of God.

  

  Richard Land
  • Mind
  • Judgment
  • Events

• Once we are reconciled to God, the estrangement is over, the hostilities have ended, and the peace is sealed for eternity.

  

  R. C. Sproul
  • God
  • Peace
  • Reconciled

• The first thing to say about politics is that politics is not the first thing.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Politics
  • Firsts