Richard Whately Quotes

It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

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• The economics of baseball are the big problem. The big clubs make a lot of money and the little clubs don't.

  

  Fay Vincent
  • Money
  • Problem
  • Baseball

• This solution may not appeal to our human pride, but the problem is that our human pride in itself is sinful.

  

  Walter Lang
  • May
  • Problem
  • Pride

• My only experience with American things is through movies.

  

  Gabriella Wilde
  • Experience
  • American
  • Movies

• Falling in love is not an act of will. It is not a conscious choice. No matter how open to or eager for it we may be, the experience may still elude us. Contrarily, the experience may capture us at times when we are definitely not seeking it, when it is inconvenient and undesirable.

  

  M. Scott Peck
  • May
  • Experience
  • Love Is

• We now have the largest surplus in history, ... As we commit ourselves to finding ways to secure our retirement programs, we also commit ourselves to bringing fairness to the tax code.

  

  Dennis Hastert
  • History
  • Retirement
  • Surplus

• I learned a long time ago that I can't control the challenges the creator sends my way, but I can control the way I think about them and deal with them

  

  Wilma Mankiller
  • Thinking
  • Long

• When you play in a band, you're in phase with people. When you're a DJ, you're totally off-phase. Your work time is 3 A.M. - 5 A.M. and I don't think you can connect. You're miserable the whole time. Whenever I see a DJ in the airport, they are always on the verge of crying.

  

  Thomas Pablo Croquet Phoenix
  • People
  • Band
  • Connect

• Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.

  

  Thomas Aquinas
  • Men
  • Reason
  • According

• The central objective in decolonising the African mind is to overthrow the authority which alien traditions exercise over the African. This demands the dismantling of white supremacist beliefs, and the structures which uphold them, in every area of African life. It must be stressed, however, that decolonisation does not mean ignorance of foreign traditions; it simply means denial of their authority and withdrawal of allegiance from them.

  

  Peter O'Toole
  • Mind
  • Mean
  • Exercise

• One of the dangers in prayer is to try to find words that will be somehow on the level of God. Unfortunately, as none of us are on a level with God, we fall short and waste a great deal of time in trying to find the right words.

  

  Anthony of Sourozh
  • Words
  • Prayer
  • Find

• I don't really step out the house trying to make a fashion statement. I step out the house making sure I'm comfortable.

  

  Asher Roth
  • Fashion
  • Comfortable
  • Step Out

• In general, I think, human beings are happiest at table when they are very young, very much in love or very alone.

  

  M. F. K. Fisher
  • Thinking
  • Food
  • Alone

• Carl Icahn told me to stay away from airlines. In good times, the unions take away the profits, and in bad times, the cost of oil kills you.

  

  Mian Muhammad Mansha
  • Times
  • Unions

• Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

  

  Plato
  • Soul
  • Health
  • Body

• It is folly to expect men to do all that they may reasonably be expected to do.

  

  Richard Whately
  • Expected
  • Reasonably