Charles Grandison Finney Quotes

I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy. And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.

Charles Grandison Finney

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• Indian classical music was born when time barely existed. It developed further within the structures of royal courts and a system of patronage where the ruler or the feudal master determined all.

  

  Tariq Ali
  • Time
  • Music
  • Born

• Many African-American men are incarcerated. And so African-American women do carry an enormous burden. And traditionally have carried a greater burden than perhaps their white counterparts.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • Men
  • Women
  • American

• I've been lucky enough to play roles that are not just the preppy cheerleader or sullen emo girl. I've been able to play roles that are really vast and varied and very three-dimensional. Fingers crossed that it remains the same.

  

  Tara Lynne Barr
  • Girl
  • Same
  • Lucky

• If there's an incursion I don't go out of the house.

  

  Nader al-Masri
  • House
  • Go
  • Out

• It is a better thing to save souls for the Lord than to save treasures. He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his Church. The Church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.

  

  Saint Ambrose
  • Church
  • Better
  • Gold

• When I say to you, there is nobody like me, and there never was, that is a statement I want every woman to feel and make about themselves.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Like
  • Woman
  • Feel

• Part of being out there, campaigning, talking to people, is being able to read body language.

  

  Gary Johnson
  • People
  • Language
  • Body

• If I am writing a movie and I am stuck, I can call the studio and tell them it's delayed. You can't do that with television - you have air dates to meet.

  

  Aaron Sorkin
  • Writing
  • Movie
  • Television

• I'm trying to get a thicker skin. I like to be aware of people's perceptions of me, but when you put it as a priority, as a means to judging your worth, that's when it can be dangerous.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • People
  • Trying
  • Priority

• We can never say it often or loudly enough: Immigrants and refugees revitalize and renew America.

  

  Barack Obama
  • America

• Live, for I love you!

  

  Edmond Rostand
  • Live

• Jewel-Like the immortal does not boast of its length of years but of the scintillating point of the moment.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore

• Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

  

  Alexander Pope
  • May
  • Soul
  • Pretty

• After the first proof of 'Sphere Spirals' my high expectations were, as always, greatly disappointed. I am now struggling on - with some feeling of despair - so that I at least achieve a passable result.

  

  M. C. Escher
  • High
  • Feeling

• A totally unmystical world would be a world totally blind and insane.

  

  Aldous Huxley
  • World

• When your young and hungry and nobody's ever really accepted you because of your color and class, the hurt of your own family having cast you out in the first place still inside you somewhere, you dance hard because there is no other way to live, and when opportunity knocks its more of an abduction than a housecall.

  

  Margaret Cho
  • Live
  • Family
  • Opportunity

• This is an evil law, a black flag hovers over it.

  

  Ayman Odeh
  • Black
  • Law
  • Evil

• Life is so precious. Please, please, let's love one another, live each day, reach out to each other, be kind to each other. Peace be with you. God is great.

  

  Julia Roberts
  • Life
  • Great
  • God

• My father always told me: 'Give somebody a hand and he'll take an arm.

  

  Haruki Murakami
  • Hand
  • My Father
  • Told Me

• Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion.

  

  Jim Rohn
  • Beginning
  • Discipline
  • Affirmation

• The socialist revolution was a pure and simple question of ‘force.’… Between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat no accord is possible. One must disappear. The weaker will be ‘eliminated.’ The class struggle is therefore a question of ‘force.’

  

  Benito Mussolini
  • Question
  • Simple
  • Struggle

• Forgive, I hope you won't be upset, but when I was a boy I used to look up and see you behind your desk, so near but far away, and, how can I say this, I used to think that you were Mrs. God, and that the library was a whole world, and that no matter what part of the world or what people or thing I wanted to see and read, you'd find and give it to me.

  

  Ray Bradbury
  • World
  • Looks
  • Library

• I was like you once, long time ago. I believed in the dignity of man. Decency. Humanity. But I was lucky. I found out the truth early, boy. And what is the truth, Stark? It's all very simple. There's no such thing as the dignity of man. Man is a base, pathetic and vulgar animal.

  

  Charles Grandison Finney
  • Simple
  • Humanity
  • Animal