Carl F. H. Henry (Carl Ferdinand Howard Henry) Quotes

We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope

Carl F. H. Henry

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• Nixon was the most dishonest individual I have ever met in my life. He lied to his wife, his family, his friends, his colleagues in the Congress, lifetime members of his own political party, the American people and the world.

  

  Barry Goldwater
  • People
  • Life
  • World

• The travel and tourism industry, it's just a huge part of our economy.

  

  Karen Hughes
  • Travel
  • Economy
  • Tourism

• In some ways, with the security challenges this country has faced, we have had to put in rules and regulations for business to be able to sustain their growth and create jobs.

  

  Wayne Allard
  • Country
  • Business
  • Growth

• I have been afraid of guns, I have sworn I would never use a gun on another person and so did not need one, and I have wanted to deny the existence of evil.

  

  Taya Kyle
  • Evil
  • Gun
  • Afraid

• There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much about, and I don't. We just keep on trucking, and I like the way my... I think there should be 'professional is professional, and personal is personal,' and that's just how I'm going to keep it.

  

  Aaron Rodgers
  • Worry
  • Professional
  • Media

• When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.

  

  Gary Cole
  • People
  • Up
  • Movie

• I don't like formal gardens. I like wild nature. It's just the wilderness instinct in me, I guess.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Nature
  • Instinct
  • Guess

• When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.

  

  Imre Kertesz
  • Black
  • Know
  • Literature

• I thought art was a verb, rather than a noun.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Art
  • Thought
  • Rather

• I never cultivated a personality. Almost everyone who is really famous has cultivated a personality.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Never
  • Personality
  • Famous

• Maybe one of you can enlighten me, but I just don't understand why it is so hard to be kind to one another?

  

  Patricia Polacco
  • Why
  • Me
  • Understand

• All my friends started getting boyfriends, but I didn't want a boyfriend, I wanted a thirteen-colour biro.

  

  Victoria Wood
  • Friends
  • Want
  • Boyfriend

• Like most people I can be lazy, so it's nice to have a goal or deadline or reason to work out. I feel better when I get to exercise, or when I'm outdoors. I like to hike, swim and run, and I love to play soccer.

  

  Viggo Mortensen
  • People
  • Work
  • Love

• Live in the world like a waterfowl. The water clings to the bird, but the bird shakes it off. Live in the world like a mudfish. The fish lives in the mud, but its skin is always bright and shiny.

  

  Ramakrishna
  • World
  • Live
  • Water

• For the classics philosophical insight was the product of a life of leisure; for me a life of leisure is the product of philosophical insight.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Life
  • Philosophical

• To be effective, judicial administration must not be leaden-footed.

  

  Felix Frankfurter

• As I've gone through life, I've found that your chances for happiness are increased if you wind up doing something that is a reflection of what you loved most when you were somewhere between nine and eleven years old.

  

  Walter Murch
  • Life
  • Up
  • Wind

• I always felt that science as the preserve of people from Oxbridge or Ivy League universities - and not for the common mortal - was a very bad idea.

  

  Benoit Mandelbrot
  • People
  • Bad
  • Science

• Sometimes I say in France: Europe is no more the center of the world - and the United States, neither. We have other key players on the international stage: China, of course; but also Brazil, India and South Africa. And their influence is very, very strong.

  

  Alain Juppe
  • World
  • Strong

• It's like a runner or a swimmer training all the time. I sing every day.

  

  Burton Cummings The Guess Who
  • Time
  • Training

• I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.

  

  Andre Agassi
  • Words
  • Moments

• It costs God nothing, so far as we know, to create nice things: but to convert rebellious wills cost Him crucifixion.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • God
  • Nice
  • Cost

• There are so many aspects to science that I couldn't give up – the rigor, the discoveries, the teaching. The impact that science has on the world around us is something I'm enthralled with. I don't think anyone could ever take that out of me.

  

  Pardis Sabeti
  • World
  • Science
  • Me

• We must confront the world now with an ethics to make it tremble, and with a dynamic to give it hope

  

  Carl F. H. Henry
  • World
  • Ethics