Edwin Newman Quotes

In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

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• But I know too that if we ever make a world without shadow, if the chemists and scientists and psychologists succeed in abolishing fear, pain, loneliness, death, some of us will find life so intolerable we will probably blow out our brains out of sheer boredom.

  

  Donald Heiney
  • Life
  • World
  • Death

• Spirit is matter seen in a stronger light. What else did Malebranche mean when he spoke of "seeing all things in God"? Existence is a mystery because the light of it is inexhaustible.

  

  Lawrence Pearsall Jacks
  • God
  • Light
  • Mean

• I have no interest in being famous. I'd love to vanish from the public eye as soon as I can.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • Eye
  • Famous
  • Interest

• I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.

  

  Nadya Suleman
  • Trying
  • Years
  • Seven

• I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current; writing; teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.

  

  Eliot Spitzer
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Issues

• I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.

  

  Louise Erdrich
  • Sense
  • Beliefs

• What Uncle Leo XIII never suspected was that his nephew's courage did not come from the need to survive or from a brute indifference inherited from his father, but from a driving need for love, which no obstacle in this world or the next would ever break.

  

  Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • World
  • Father
  • Courage

• Experience is the mother of custom.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Experience
  • Mother
  • Custom

• A teacher sent the following note home with a six-year-old boy 'He is too stupid to learn.' That boy was Thomas A. Edison.

  

  Thomas A. Edison
  • Teacher
  • Learn
  • Stupid

• My objective was to hurt the other fighters. I wanted to hurt them. I wanted to be merciless. Man, I was a wild thing. It's kind of a drug, a rush.

  

  Mike Tyson
  • Hurt
  • Drug
  • Fighters

• I am almost equal to a shadow.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Shadow
  • Equal

• Entertainers are nothing special. Maybe we have a talent for singing a song, but other people have talents. I wish fans would just come up and say 'hello' before asking for an autograph. I wish they would just say, 'Hello, I'm so and so, and I just want to shake your hand.' I'm impressed when I find people like that. Most people just say, 'Sign here,' and treat you like a statue.

  

  Eddy Arnold
  • Song
  • Singing
  • Talent

• Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Man
  • Animal
  • Parasites

• Sometimes I wish I was crazy, it would make everything easier.

  

  Charlie Jane Anders
  • Wish
  • Crazy
  • Easier

• Fair, rich confusion is all the aim of an old-fashioned flower garden, and the greater the confusion, the richer. You want to come upon mignonnette in unexpected places, and to find sprays of heliotrope in close consultation with your roses, and geraniums sporting their uniforms like gay recruits off duty.

  

  Anna Bartlett Warner
  • Garden
  • Roses
  • Geraniums

• I do not know much about gods; but I think that the river Is a strong brown god-sullen, untamed and intractable.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • God
  • Thinking
  • Strong

• The most alarming of all man's assaults upon the environment is the contamination of air, earth, rivers, and sea with dangerous and even lethal materials.

  

  Rachel Carson
  • Men
  • Earth
  • Environment

• Following your own vision is one of the only things that will sustain you.

  

  Joy Bryant
  • Vision
  • Following
  • Sustain

• In a decade, America's mighty rivers will have reached the boiling point.

  

  Edwin Newman
  • Rivers
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