Emily Blackwell Quotes

Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.

Emily Blackwell

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• For a long time, I thought I was going to play basketball. There's not many 6-4 white guys playing the three spot in the NBA, so I realized I probably didn't have much of a future in basketball and that football was probably going to be my best bet.

  

  Sam Bradford
  • Time
  • Long
  • Future

• The basic question 'will I obey Christ 's teaching?' is rarely taken as a serious issue. For example, to take one of Jesus' commands, that is relevant to contemporary life, I don't know of any church that actually teaches a church how to bless people who curse them, yet this is a clear command.

  

  Dallas Willard
  • People
  • Life
  • Know

• I had a flip phone until I was 25, and I didn't use social media until that age, either.

  

  Haley Joel Osment
  • Age
  • Media
  • Social Media

• It's all about risk-taking when you're making an album. Don't be scared to do weird things sometimes.

  

  Vic Fuentes
  • You
  • Sometimes
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• The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Real
  • War
  • Peace

• I am joining the hundreds of thousands who shall be marching in the Virtual March on Washington to Stop Global Warming in order to demonstrate the concern that we all hold for the future of our planet and all the living things - flora, fauna, human and animal - that exist upon it.

  

  Walter Cronkite
  • Future
  • Stop
  • March

• Creme Brulee is the ultimate 'guy' dessert. Make it and he'll follow you anywhere.

  

  Ina Garten
  • Guy
  • You
  • Follow

• Death is not something any one of us want to dwell on, but we must all confront it at some point.

  

  Lara Giddings
  • Want
  • Death
  • Point

• Turn on to politics, or politics will turn on you.

  

  Ralph Nader
  • You
  • Politics
  • Turn

• I play sad bastard music. For the money.

  

  J. Tillman
  • Music
  • Money
  • Sad

• I wouldn't have made it past the first round of American Idol auditions. It was months before our first song was recorded. The guys were like, 'Just seeng!' And I was like, 'I don't know how to seeng! Can't I just play the triangle?'

  

  Malin Akerman
  • American
  • Song
  • Past

• My parents were both actors; my dad sort of quite early on. My mother acted for a while, and now she's a painter.

  

  Sam Rockwell
  • She
  • Mother
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• I had an awful lot to say in what I wore as Romana.

  

  Lalla Ward
  • Say
  • Lot
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• One ought to begin an analysis of power from the ground up, at the level of tiny local events where battles are unwittingly enacted by players who don't know what they are doing.

  

  Ian Hacking
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• By believing we are the product of random acts, we eliminate morality and the basis of ethical behavior. For if there is no such thing as moral authority, you can do anything you want. You make everything relative, and there’s no reason for any of our higher values.

  

  Ben Carson
  • Moral
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• I just try to get along with people and show the love that I would like to be shown to me.

  

  Martin Lawrence
  • People

• I want to have a record with Beyonce or Lady Gaga. They are both my inspirations. Especially Beyonce.

  

  Charice Pempengco

• Myself and the co-founders of the Black Lives Matter movement have been called terrorists, but in truth, we are loving women whose life experiences have led us to seek justice for those victimized by the powerful.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • Life
  • Women
  • Truth

• If I could have dinner with anyone who lived in history, it would depend on the restaurant.

  

  Jack Roy
  • History
  • Dinner
  • Restaurant

• We all want more information available when making health care decisions for ourselves and our families.

  

  Dan Lipinski
  • Health
  • Care
  • Decisions

• My age and health will never allow me to realize the dream of art I've been pursuing all my life.

  

  Paul Cezanne
  • Life
  • Art
  • Age

• One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled us to fix the real world; but as a compulsion to arrange a world for ourselves in which our existence is made possible:-we thereby create a world which is calculable, simplified, comprehensible, etc., for us.

  

  Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Understand
  • Existence
  • Laws

• Every advance in social progress removes us more and more from the guidance of instinct, obliging us to depend upon reason for the assurance that our habits are really agreeable to the laws of health.

  

  Emily Blackwell
  • Health
  • Laws
  • Guidance