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

• 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

• 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

• I know plenty of entrepreneurs who are numbers first. They tend to be highly analytical people, and before they pull the trigger, all the numbers have to line up just right.

  

  Jason Fried
  • People
  • Up

• Competing in pageants made me hyper-aware of the unfair expectations society places on women in terms of youth and beauty. But it also gave me empathy for women who use beauty as a creative exploration. When expressed healthfully, dressing up, doing hair, crafting makeup, etc., is an art form.

  

  Rae Carson
  • Up
  • Women
  • Art

• There are a lot of really fabulous things that get done with digital assets and blockchain technologies to reduce friction, to reduce costs, and enable things that weren't possible before.

  

  Brad Garlinghouse
  • Done

• The advice I have for new artists is this - write great songs and play them live as often as possible. Get residencies all over town and crush it.

  

  Ben Harper
  • Great
  • Live
  • Play

• I listened to classical music. I listened to jazz. I listened to everything. And I started becoming interested in the sounds of jazz. And I went to a concert of Jazz at the Philharmonic when we lived in Omaha, Nebraska, and I saw Charlie Parker play and Billie Holiday sing and Lester Young play, and that did it. I said, 'That's what I want to do.'

  

  Charlie Haden
  • Music
  • Holiday

• 'There's a curious knot that binds novelists and terrorists...Years ago I used to think it was possible for a novelist to alter the inner life of the culture. Now bomb-makers and gunmen have taken that territory. They make raids on human consciousness. What writers used to do before we were all incorporated.'

  

  Don DeLillo
  • Life
  • Culture
  • Taken

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

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Great
  • Create
  • Tumult