Edward John Carnell Quotes
Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
Quotes to Explore
-
In battle it is the cowards who run the most risk; bravery is a rampart of defense.
-
Katie Holmes is really amazing.
-
Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
-
The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.
-
I can imagine it's hard to make a relationship last. I wouldn't know.
-
In a world where people are hungry for quick fixes and sound bites, for instant gratification, there's no patience for the long, slow rebuilding process: implementing after-school programs, hiring more community workers to act as mentors, adding more job training programs in marginalized areas.
-
All is worthwhile if the soul is not small.
-
Lines 10–16
-
If the past is any guide, what has happened this winter could happen again next winter and the winter after that and so on and so on. What we face is a threat to our whole way of life...The case is now surely overwhelming, there will be no solution to our difficulties which does not include some restriction on the power of the unions.
-
Most victims of ISIL are, in fact, Muslims. So it seems to me that to refer to ISIL as occupying any part of the Islamic theology is playing on a - a battlefield that they would like us to be on. I think that to call them - to call them some form of Islam gives the group more dignity than it deserves, frankly.
-
I try to show the public that chemistry, biology, physics, astrophysics is life. It is not some separate subject that you have to be pulled into a corner to be taught about.
-
As somebody who makes his living in the movie business and wants to contribute to it, I think that the best chance I have of doing that is just consistently working with great directors.
-
If you're in Hollywood, with no track record, it's pretty odds-on that you can get swamped and overwhelmed by the sheer scale of it all; particularly with the intense commercial push that you feel there.
-
The only way to make real wealth is to get rid of your salary. In a salary, by definition, you are creating wealth for others, and you are creating a chain and handcuffs for yourself.
-
Life is full and overflowing with the new. But it is necessary to empty out the old to make room for the new to enter.
-
Katy Perry's politics I could probably do without, though I have friends who have interacted with her that say she's very nice.
-
I think L.A. is impossible. There's just too much media focus. You can't live a normal life.
-
Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.
-
For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored.
-
The mind is a magnet and we attract that with which we identify the self. In order to get the most out of life we must learn consciously to change many of our habitual thought patterns. This is not easy, for our old thought patterns cling to us with great tenacity, but, being thought patterns, they can be reversed. If you are filled with fear, refill yourself with faith, for faith always overcomes fear.
-
That strange flower, the sun, Is just what you say. Have it your way.The world is ugly, And the people are sad..
-
The suffering that food animals undergo, the suffering of those who eat them and profit by them, the suffering of starving people who could be fed with the grain that feeds these animals, and the suffering we thoughtlessly impose on the ecosystem, other creatures, and future generations are all interconnected. It is this interconnectedness of suffering, and its reverse, of love, caring, and awareness, that calls out for our understanding.
-
The only thing I was any good at was music.
-
Too often faith is used as an epistemological device to avoid the hard labor of straight thinking.
