Edward Joseph Young Quotes

How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

Edward Joseph Young

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• The process of rehearsal means you learn so much and really get the chance to develop your work on a character.

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Work
  • Character
  • Chance

• To begin with, our knowledge grows in spots. The spots may be large or small, but the knowledge ever grows all over... What you first gain from them is probably a small amount of new information, a few new definitions, or distinctions, or points of view. But while these special ideas are being added, the rest of your knowledge stands still, and only gradually will you 'line up' your previous opinions with the novelties I am trying to instil, and modify to some slight degree their mass.

  

  William James
  • Mind
  • Trying
  • Special

• I looked, and had an acute pleasure in looking,--a precious yet poignant pleasure; pure gold, with a steely point of agony: a pleasure like what the thirst-perishing man might feel who knows the well to which he has crept is poisoned, yet stoops and drinks divine draughts nevertheless.

  

  Charlotte Bronte
  • Pleasure
  • Poignant
  • Acute

• It's better to be hated for who you are then loved for who you are not

  

  Billy Howerdel Ashes Divide
  • Be Hated

• The best way to be the kind of girl you want to be is to do what that girl would do.

  

  Catherynne M. Valente
  • Want
  • Girl
  • To Be

• Universities are no longer educational in any sense of the word that Rousseau would have recognised. Instead, they have become unabashed instruments of capital. Confronted with this squalid betrayal, one imagines he would have felt sick and oppressed.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Sick
  • Imagine
  • Felt

• We worked with Jean-Marc Vallée on Big Little Lies in terms of finding style. Because when you have five women, you're trying to find how they each dress and how they present themselves to the world.

  

  Nicole Kidman
  • Women
  • Style
  • Present

• I am big into aromatherapy.

  

  Sharon Stone
  • Aromatherapy

• The pursuit of individual happiness within those limits prescribed by social conditions, is the first requisite to the attainment of the greatest general happiness.

  

  Herbert Spencer
  • Firsts
  • Individual
  • Social

• Felix is one of those guys who comes along every 10 or 20 years. He's a tremendous talent -- for his age, unbelievable. And he's handled all this hype like a champ.

  

  Eddie Guardado
  • Talent
  • Champ

• Care is taken that trees do not grow into the sky.

  

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Present
  • Deity

• Your people are not unwise, after all: love of the perfect Deity may prevent us from loving imperfect man! But God's will is to restore the lost; and that can't be done without loving them.

  

  K. J. Bishop
  • God
  • Love
  • Man

• The principle of love within us is an attribute of the Deity, and it is placed within us to be dispensed independently according to our own will.

  

  Brigham Young
  • Deity
  • Principle of Love
  • Own will

• Despite the obvious intelligence and security failures that contributed to the attack against the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, the reality is that in one night, an al Qaeda-affiliated group destroyed a diplomatic post, killed a U.S. ambassador and three other Americans, and forced an end to clandestine U.S. activity in the area.

  

  Jack Keane
  • Night
  • Reality
  • End

• Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.

  

  Rita Mae Brown
  • Style
  • Propaganda
  • Adolescence

• How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!

  

  Edward Joseph Young
  • Deity
  • Complicate
  • Midway