Charles Edward Jefferson Quotes

There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.

Charles Edward Jefferson

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• In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.

  

  Patrick Soon-Shiong
  • Time
  • Children
  • Black

• My father taught me photography. It was his hobby, and we had a small darkroom in the fruit cellar of our basement. It was the kind of makeshift darkroom that was only dark at night.

  

  Sam Abell
  • Father
  • Night
  • Small

• Music has no subject beyond the combinations of notes we hear, for music speaks not only by means of sounds, it speaks nothing but sound.

  

  Eduard Hanslick
  • Music
  • Sound
  • Notes

• Car chases are as painstaking to make as they are fun to watch. They take a lot of time, and you have to keep the energy up.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Up
  • Time
  • Fun

• It has always been the task of formal education to set up behavior which would prove useful or enjoyable later in a student's life.

  

  B. F. Skinner
  • Life
  • Up
  • Education

• Persistance, dedication Consistent, motivation, resistance to stagnation of information, distribute it free to the entire population No hesitation, makin it public No privitazation from corporations

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Free
  • motivation
  • Dedication

• The tribunal here and your American newspapers talk so much about our sharp Nazi methods, but do you realize that within the past year, since the defeat of Germany, 1 million Germans have been evicted from what was originally German territory and which has now been given to Poland? No League of Nations or other body intervened.

  

  Alfred Rosenberg
  • American
  • Past
  • German

• But we should not be kowtowing to anybody when it comes to freedom in this country.

  

  Kevin Rudd
  • Country
  • Freedom

• Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Nature
  • Interesting

• Proof must be solid break walls of facts.

  

  Agatha Christie

• When it is time to get to work, I go away completely and don't do anything except the work. And that can be 16 hours a day.

  

  Jeanette Winterson
  • Time
  • Work

• When you look at me on the telly and say, 'She should be on 'The Undateables,'' you are looking at a 59-year-old woman. That is what 59-year-old women who have not had work done look like. Get it?

  

  Mary Beard
  • Work
  • Women
  • Done

• If I write badly about blacks, homosexuals and women, it is because of these who I met were that. There are many 'bads' - bad dogs, bad censorship; there are even 'bad' white males. Only, when you write about 'bad' white males, they don't complain about it. And need I say that there are 'good' blacks, 'good' homosexuals and 'good' women?

  

  Charles Bukowski
  • Good
  • Women
  • Bad

• Many business leaders are seeing the relationship between long term success and sustainability, and that's very heartening.

  

  Jacqueline Novogratz
  • Long
  • Business
  • Success

• 'Straight Outta Compton' is the album I'm least happy with. I threw it together in six weeks so we could have something to sell out of the trunk.

  

  Dr. Dre
  • Together
  • Happy

• He explained how ridiculous the clowning was, and there and then I decided to settle down and play seriously.

  

  Mary Lou Williams

• Seattle's support system got me through those early, difficult years. It was a very funky, very friendly, very relaxed place that had it all for a writer.

  

  Alan Furst
  • Support

• Some of my lowest points were the most exciting opportunities to push through to be a better person.

  

  Demi Moore

• The world is in a constant conspiracy against the brave. It's the age-old struggle: the roar of the crowd on the one side, and the voice of your conscience on the other.

  

  Douglas MacArthur
  • World
  • Age
  • Struggle

• I'm still pulled over... We were nominated for two Oscars for 'Monster's Ball,' and I almost didn't make the Oscars because I got pulled over in Beverly Hills.

  

  Lee Daniels
  • Monster

• There is something so pure and frank and noble about Him that to doubt His sincerity would be like doubting the brightness of the sun.

  

  Charles Edward Jefferson
  • Doubt
  • Sun
  • Christ