Edward Joseph Young Quotes

High stations tumult, but not bliss create; None think the Great unhappy, but the Great.

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• Are we a Christian nation now? It's doubtful. But did we start out as one? Without question.

  

  Pat Robertson
  • Question
  • Christian
  • Start

• We may define therapy as a search for value.

  

  Abraham Maslow
  • May
  • Value
  • Search

• Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.

  

  Parker Stevenson
  • Good
  • Work
  • Done

• I always think of it in terms of music. You're not always going to be a huge rock star in music, but musicians can play until the day they die. With sports, it's different. You can't always do it until the very end, and that's a hard reality of sports.

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Music
  • Different
  • Reality

• 'Mvula' is my married name, but for some reason my nan calls me 'McVula.' I'm not sure if it's one of those jokey Caribbean things, or whether she's just getting it wrong.

  

  Laura Mvula
  • She
  • Me
  • Name

• I love the Army with every bone in my body.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Body
  • Army
  • Bone

• As a spectator, you get to watch everything, but I'd much rather be playing than watching. I'll have time to watch later in my career.

  

  Landon Donovan
  • Time
  • Career
  • You

• I'm not afraid to go completely over the top. A lot of people are scared to seem silly or to embarrass themselves, and I really don't have that at all - I don't mind making a fool of myself. I like to just have fun and really go for it.

  

  Becki Newton
  • People
  • Mind
  • Fun

• Oh, filmmakers, please don't take my soft book and turn it into a horror, or take my horror and make it soft.

  

  Maggie Stiefvater
  • Book
  • Take
  • Turn

• When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

  

  Baron d'Holbach
  • Men
  • Words
  • Find

• So nigh is grandeur to our dust, So near is God to man, When Duty whispers low, Thou must, The youth replies, I can.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • God

• I cannot help thinking that it is more natural to have flowers grow out of the head than fruit.

  

  Jane Austen
  • Thinking
  • Help

• Ours was the first society openly to define itself in terms of both spirituality and of human liberty. It is that unique self-definition which has given us an exceptional appeal, but it also imposes on us a special obligation, to take on those moral duties which, when assumed, seem invariably to be in our own best interests.

  

  Jimmy Carter
  • Society
  • Moral
  • Unique

• Take nothing on its looks; take everything on evidence. There's no better rule.

  

  Charles Dickens

• Put it this way: singing is not my day job.

  

  Chris O'Dowd
  • Job
  • Singing

• Opportunity makes a thief.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Opportunity

• So you can say whatever you want and quote me however you want about politics and make the next payday, and that's fine because I'm making that deal with you, but just mention the movie along the way, OK?

  

  James Woods
  • Movie

• Over the course of the game, you can't let negativity get in your head. Any time a guy playing negative upon emotion, it's not going to be a great day.

  

  Antonio Brown
  • Time
  • Great
  • Guy

• The more tools I have, the more freedom I have.

  

  Du Yun
  • Freedom

• Young men in my day really stepped up... These were champions for freedom, equality, and justice for all human beings, and they were educated individuals that used their education and knowledge to represent their case.

  

  Jim Brown
  • Up
  • Men
  • Freedom

• Where Scripture speaks of the world's creation, it is not plainly said whether or when the angels were created; but if mention is made, it is implicit under the name of "heaven," when it is said, "In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth."

  

  Saint Augustine
  • World
  • God
  • Earth

• One of the great things about the sci-fi genre is that you can kind of get away with a bit more when talking politics, making social references or dealing with very hot-button topics because it is sci-fi.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • Kind
  • Politics

• High stations tumult, but not bliss create; None think the Great unhappy, but the Great.

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Great
  • Create
  • Tumult