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

• may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Good
  • Great
  • Trying

• The truth about nature we discover with our brains. The truth about religion we discover with our hearts.

  

  Blaise Pascal
  • Truth
  • Religion
  • Discover

• As a rule, anything that is pretty you avoid when on an expedition in the polar extremes. Normally anything other than white means a hazard such as a crevasse.

  

  Ranulph Fiennes
  • Hazards
  • Expeditions

• Human rights can only be assured among a virtuous people. The general government . . . can never be in danger of degenerating into a monarchy, an oligarchy, an aristocracy, or any despotic or oppresive form so long as there is any virtue in the body of the people.

  

  George Washington
  • People
  • Long
  • Liberty

• I don't like all the glory, hand-shaking and general run of things after a tournament.

  

  Gene Littler
  • Things
  • General
  • Tournament

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

  

  Edwin Newman
  • Rivers
  • Reached
  • Boiling