Charles Eliot Norton Quotes

The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

Charles Eliot Norton

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• I've always been honest with my fans, and I want to keep that up because I feel they can see through the fakeness.

  

  Zendaya
  • Up
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  • Feel

• I have had the good fortune to be able to climb the highest mountain on each of the seven continents. I have enjoyed the freedom I had gained from building a successful business from scratch, making some money, and creating the lifestyle I wanted.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • Good
  • Money
  • Business

• I read widely - for news, the arts, science, for entertainment, and the value of being informed - and, as a fiction writer, I can't help transposing what I learn into the scenario for a novel or story.

  

  T. C. Boyle
  • Help
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  • Value

• At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.

  

  Flannery O'Connor
  • Live
  • Age
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• The E.U. needs a strategy that marries a shared vision to common action.

  

  Federica Mogherini
  • Action
  • Vision
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• I like to write. I love to write. But I write just for myself and my own pleasure.

  

  J. D. Salinger
  • Love
  • Myself
  • Pleasure

• You're an artist when you're writing, a businessperson the rest of the time.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Time
  • Writing
  • Rest

• Baby why'd you leave me, why'd you have to go; I was counting on forever, now I'll never know.

  

  Carrie Underwood
  • Why
  • Forever
  • Baby

• Well, I suppose that, in a sense, every screen role is a favourite with me.

  

  Dinah Sheridan

• I get intrigued by a puzzle, and writing a book is the best way to solve it.

  

  Anthony Storr
  • Writing
  • Book

• The problem with fame is that you get frozen in one frame and nothing you can do can alter the nature.

  

  Jerry Rubin
  • Nature
  • Frozen

• I know myself pretty well, and I know what I'm good at, but I also recognize when others may be better and so support and empower that.

  

  Kathleen Kennedy
  • Good
  • May
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• I always want to live long enough to finish the book I'm working on and see it published. But then I start another book before the previous one is in the stores, so I always have a reason to go on.

  

  Phyllis A. Whitney
  • Long
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  • Book

• And the issues I think are important in Louisiana right now happen to be health care and education. And those are two areas that the federal government can play a very important role. And I think I can be effective in trying to help our state from the Washington scene.

  

  John Breaux
  • Important
  • Trying
  • Help

• It's really hard to find a love song that is real. That's when you really strike a chord with somebody, when you dig in deep and grab a hold.

  

  Rodney Atkins
  • Real
  • Song
  • Deep

• Apparently, the Fates were not so unsubtle as to deal him another blow just yet. He knew they didn’t operate that way. They always let you hope for a while longer, then strung it out before they really let you have it.

  

  David Brin
  • Hope
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• I never justify, sustain, or in any way or to any extent uphold this cruel, heartless, aimless unnecessary war.

  

  Franklin Pierce
  • War
  • Heartless

• People's association with improvisation means one person playing an endless stream of notes over something, and it doesn't have to be.

  

  Jon Brion
  • People

• A mother, after all, is your entry into the world. She is the shell in which you divide and become a life. Waking up in a world without her is like waking up in a world without sky: unimaginable.

  

  Meghan O'Rourke
  • Life
  • Up
  • World

• The money between the first pick and the 10th pick - that's a big difference! That's like a $10-million-dollar difference.

  

  Ezekiel Elliott
  • Money
  • Difference

• In grownups, mercury can cause memory loss, tremors, vision loss and numbness of the fingers and toes. It can also adversely affect fertility and blood pressure regulation, and a growing body of evidence suggests that exposure to mercury may lead to heart disease.

  

  Frances Beinecke
  • Heart
  • May
  • Growing

• Acting is the expression of a neurotic impulse. It's a bum's life. Quitting acting, that's the sign of maturity.

  

  Marlon Brando
  • Life
  • Maturity

• We should foster a culture in which people's private religious beliefs, including atheists and agnostics, are respected. And that's the kind of culture that I think allows all of us, then, to believe what we want. That's freedom of conscience. That's what our Constitution guarantees.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Believe
  • Culture

• The loss of religious faith among the most civilized portion of the race is a step from childishness toward maturity.

  

  Charles Eliot Norton
  • Religious
  • Loss
  • Atheism