William Edward Hartpole Lecky Quotes
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky
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That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
Sam Raimi
There are fathers who do not love their children; there is no grandfather who does not adore his grandson.
Victor Hugo
Does the novel have to deepen the psychology of its heroes? Certainly the modern novel does, but the ancient legends did not do the same. Oedipus' psychology was deduced by Aeschylus or Freud, but the character is simply there, fixed in a pure and terribly disquieting state.
Umberto Eco
As an American Jew who loves Israel, I cannot support John McCain. He cannot provide what Israel needs most - a respected, credible, morally strong America.
Edgar Bronfman, Sr.
I'm at the right age to work with dead people, but you have to be smart to be a CSI.
Ted Danson
He said that humanity in the main was crass, stupid, boorish and vulgar, and that I could learn at least this much from you.
Jack Vance
For movies like The Longest Ride, I got to hang out with cowboys at rodeos and learned how to ride a bull, essentially.
Scott Eastwood
Today, especially, it's a really unclear situation in terms of where the Israelis are at, and where the Palestinians are at, the world is kind of changing around us.
Eran Riklis
Our character is basically a composite of our habits. Because they are consistent, often unconcious patterns, they constantly, daily, express our character.
Stephen Covey
Passions weaken, but habits strengthen, with age, and it is the great task of youth to set the current of habit and to form the tastes which are most productive of happiness in life.
William Edward Hartpole Lecky