Will Herberg Quotes

Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.

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• Everyone in society should be a role model, not only for their own self-respect, but for respect from others.

  

  Barry Bonds
  • Society
  • Respect
  • Model

• In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.

  

  Fanny Kemble
  • Live
  • Hope
  • Single

• Like many writers, I started by writing short stories. I needed to learn how to write and stories are the most practical way to do this, and less soul-destroying than working your way through a lengthy novel and then discovering it's rubbish.

  

  Kate Atkinson
  • Writing
  • Soul
  • Learn

• I have won many awards and I am very happy about this, but I am not the best player in the world.

  

  Zinedine Zidane
  • World
  • Happy
  • Best

• Usually I like to have them, but going drum-less pushes everything in a new direction and makes it easier to keep things sounding different.

  

  J Mascis
  • Different
  • New
  • Everything

• We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Human
  • Birth
  • Human Beings

• Stop allowing yourself to focus on depressing life circumstances - including focusing on being depressed about your weight. All this negative focus will only lead you to feeling bummed and wanting to pig out. Instead, consciously focus on happy life circumstances you enjoy doing, and create more of them!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Life
  • Happy
  • Feeling

• There is only one class in the community that thinks more about money than the rich, and that is the poor. The poor can think of nothing else.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Money
  • Community
  • Rich

• I don't worry about the integrity of the game. Our players are professionals.

  

  Gary Bettman
  • Game
  • Worry
  • Integrity

• There is no such thing as absolute proof. There is only evidence.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Thing
  • Evidence
  • Only

• I've been that celebrity on the red carpet, and I appreciate that something hasn't got to just look good from the front, from the back, it's got to look good at all angles.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • Good
  • Red
  • Celebrity

• I'm happy to be told that I am beautiful, but I don't gain anything from that.

  

  Natsuo Kirino
  • Happy
  • Beautiful

• Mrs Morel always said the after-life would hold nothing in store for her husband: he rose from the lower world into purgatory, when he came home from pit, and passed into heaven in the Palmerston Arms.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • World
  • Home

• I'm so single. It's funny. I'm usually a relationship girl. I love being in love and having a partner in crime. But it's good to be your own partner in crime. God, that makes me sound like I have multiple-personality disorder.

  

  Brittany Snow
  • Good
  • God
  • Girl

• For a really long time in my life, I fought against how I look. Because I was raised Catholic in school, where everyone had to wear a suit and tie. I hated everything that stood for. And I realized when I walked down the street, everyone would see the guy I hated and not the guy I was.

  

  Kurt Braunohler
  • Life
  • Time
  • Long

• Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.

  

  David Suzuki
  • Important
  • Live

• I'm getting better now, but I used to be incredibly awkward with girls. I think any guy who says 'I've never had an awkward moment with a girl' is a liar.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Guy
  • Girl
  • Liar

• Atari collapsed in '84, and I went freelance, and that was when I started spreading out and doing my own thing. I really cut loose and did a game called 'Trust and Betrayal', which was the first game solely about interpersonal relationships.

  

  Chris Crawford
  • Game
  • Trust
  • Betrayal

• It tossed and tossed,- A little brig I knew,- O’ertook by blast, It spun and spun, And groped delirious, for morn.It slipped and slipped, As one that drunken stepped; Its white foot tripped, Then dropped from sight.Ah, brig, good-night To crew and you; The ocean’s heart too smooth, too blue, To break for you.

  

  Emily Dickinson
  • Good
  • Heart
  • Night

• Architecture is the will of the age conceived in spatial terms.

  

  Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • Age
  • Architecture
  • Terms

• No question is ever settled until it is settled right.

  

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox
  • Hope
  • Question
  • Justice

• The world needs many more humanitarians than it needs warriors, but there can be none of the former without enough of the latter.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Needs
  • Humanitarian
  • Warriors

• Man is homo religiosus, by 'nature' religious: as much as he needs food to eat or air to breathe, he needs a faith for living.

  

  Will Herberg
  • Religious
  • Needs
  • Breathe