Richard Whately Quotes

In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

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• I went to Mission Bay High School. Me and my brother, we both went there.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • School
  • High
  • Brother

• It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.

  

  Flann O'Brien
  • Words
  • Said
  • Follow

• Political and social change is always a stagger-step process. One step forward, two steps back. They want you to give up.

  

  Hal Sparks
  • Up
  • Political
  • Change

• A great song can make a terrible singer sound good, but a good singer - you put a great song on top of that, you're really in great shape!

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Good
  • Great
  • Song

• Paranormal fiction offers authors - and readers - the chance to answer the question, 'What if?' All the different ways that question can be answered make for extremely entertaining reading.

  

  Jeaniene Frost
  • Different
  • Reading
  • Question

• All great scientists have, in a certain sense, been great artists; the man with no imagination may collect facts, but he cannot make great discoveries.

  

  Karl Pearson
  • Great
  • May
  • Imagination

• Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

  

  Lawrence Ferlinghetti
  • Man
  • Woman
  • Poetry

• I never thought of myself as an entrepreneur before I started this. I just like to build things.

  

  Andrew Mason
  • Entrepreneur
  • Intriguing

• What should a good children’s book be like? If you ask me, I can tell you after thinking long and hard: It must be good.

  

  Astrid Lindgren
  • Good
  • Thinking
  • Long

• Miracles are to come. With you I leave a remembrance of miracles: they are by somebody who can love and who shall be continually reborn, a human being.

  

  e. e. cummings

• I set for myself only small goals, goals that are not that far away.

  

  Claudia Schiffer
  • Small
  • Goals

• I believe that there are certain attributes in a woman that give her some advantages over a man. Women are usually more honest, more sensitive to issues and bring a stronger sense of commitment and dedication to what they do. Maybe because they were mothers, and being a mother you have that special attention for the family, for the young, for children…

  

  Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
  • Believe
  • Women
  • Children

• Faced with the election of a Catholic, our culture is at stake.

  

  Norman Vincent Peale
  • Culture
  • Catholic
  • Election

• This white woman came up to me, and I'm thinking, WOW. When I was a kid, she would have been robbed and raped and left for dead. This is a real strange scenario, and I just wanted to cry. I'm like, "Who am I? Where's my heritage?

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Thinking
  • Woman
  • Heritage

• Why should I resent it when an ass kicks me?

  

  Socrates
  • Should
  • Kicks
  • Resent

• The development of the doctrine of international arbitration, considered from the standpoint of its ultimate benefits to the human race, is the most vital movement of modern times. In its relation to the well-being of the men and women of this and ensuing generations, it exceeds in importance the proper solution of various economic problems which are constant themes of legislative discussion and enactment.

  

  William Howard Taft
  • World
  • Men
  • Problem

• Dreams are there to be realized, not to be dreamed. To realize a dream, you have to stay steadfast in your strong will.

  

  Gackt
  • Dream
  • Strong
  • Realizing

• If we are to achieve long-range goals, we must learn to set up and accomplish short-range goals that will move us along the way. If we do not consciously select our goals, we may be controlled by goals not of our own choosing - goals imposed by outside pressures such as the expectations of others or by our habits such as procrastination or by our desire for the approval of the world.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Learn
  • Goals
  • Achieve

• But afterall it's not the winning that matters, is it? Or is it? It'sto coinawordtheamenitiesthatcount: thesmell of the dandelions, the puff of the pipe, the click of the bat, the rain on the neck, the chill down the spine, the slow, exquisite coming on of sunset and dinner and rheumatism.

  

  Alistair Cooke
  • Winning
  • Rain
  • Sunset

• Being is good, but getting rich is better.... If the gods had only the riches of men's adoration, they would be as poor as poor Caligula.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Good
  • Poor
  • Adoration

• In our judgment of human transactions, the law of optics is reversed; we see the most indistinctly the objects which are close around us.

  

  Richard Whately
  • Judgment
  • Objects
  • Reversed