Richard John Neuhaus Quotes

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

Richard John Neuhaus

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• Don't most of us agree that providing school meals to kids who need them is an overwhelmingly good thing? After all, nutrition is essential to proper cognitive development.

  

  Laura Moser
  • Good
  • School
  • Kids

• The only theism worthy of our respect believes in God not because of the way the world is made but in spite of that. The only theism that is no less profound than the Buddha's atheism is that represented in the Bible by Job and Jeremiah.

  

  Walter Kaufmann
  • World
  • God
  • Job

• As a costume designer, I first try to figure out what the character's economic situation is and hit the stores they'd shop.

  

  Patricia Norris
  • Character
  • Situation
  • Try

• I work legs, upper body, everything. Legs are very important. I do hang cleans and squats - I do primary exercises. Squats work over 60 percent of your muscle mass in your body. The hang cleans work on my explosive movement, which is essential for success.

  

  Larry Fitzgerald
  • Work
  • Important
  • Success

• When you say you agree to a thing in principle you mean that you have not the slightest intention of carrying it out in practice.

  

  Otto von Bismarck
  • You
  • Mean
  • Practice

• I want to communicate to the everyday person. I don't want to just roll around in my own avant-garde pool of coolness.

  

  Bat for Lashes
  • Want
  • Everyday
  • Own

• I feel very lucky and privileged to be a writer. I feel lucky in the sense that I can branch out into prose and tell different kinds of stories and stuff. But being a writer is so great because you're literally not dependent on anybody.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Great
  • Different
  • Feel

• Democracy is only a dream: it should be put in the same category as Arcadia, Santa Claus, and Heaven.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • Dream
  • Heaven
  • Democracy

• When I see Bruce Banner becoming the Hulk, it's only a picture. My imagination has to do some of the work there, to impute feeling and everything. We're talking about something that's so surreal, it's just not possible within the world as we know it. So that requires a form that is not so literal.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • World
  • Work
  • Feeling

• So long as I'm president, communism will not thrive here.

  

  Ferdinand Marcos
  • Long
  • President
  • Communism

• Everything good and bad about technology would be magnified by implanting it deep in brains. Is the risk of brain-hacking outweighed by the societal benefits of faster, deeper communication, and the ability to augment our own intelligence?

  

  Ramez Naam
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Technology

• Taylor Swift is so flawless, and so unattainable, and I don't think it's breeding anything good in young girls.

  

  Lorde
  • Good
  • Girls
  • Swift

• I want to go home and just go for a long walk. And where I want to go, I have no idea.

  

  Billie Joe Armstrong Green Day
  • Long
  • Home
  • Idea

• Sometimes the only way you can get an audience is at an audition.

  

  Al Pacino
  • Sometimes
  • Audience

• It is only by making the past alive again for a person that a true growth in the present is facilitated. If the past is cut off, the future does not exist.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • True
  • Future
  • Past

• Love should be that person that inspires you to be a better person.

  

  Angelina Jolie
  • Should
  • Persons
  • Inspire

• If you are pleased with what you are, you have stopped already. If you say, "It is enough," you are lost. Keep on walking, moving forward, trying for the goal.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Trying
  • Lost
  • Moving

• The feeble tremble before opinion, the foolish defy it, the wise judge it, the skillful direct it.

  

  Madame Roland
  • People
  • Opinion
  • Wise

• What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity and you're grabbing those things out of the air, there's no rational process.

  

  Ronnie Dunn Brooks & Dunn
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Creativity

• Sagging wrinkles, hanging breasts and many another sign of age are part of gravitation's slow relentless handiwork.

  

  D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
  • Age
  • Wrinkles
  • Sagging

• To him who is afraid, everything rustles.

  

  Sophocles
  • Afraid
  • Rustles

• Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

  

  Richard John Neuhaus
  • Faces
  • Argument
  • Creatures