David Brewster Quotes

Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.

David Brewster

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• I'm not running for state Senate because I wanted to become a politician. I'm running because I wanted to serve.

  

  Carl Lewis
  • Running
  • Politician
  • Become

• Religion is induced insanity.

  

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair
  • Religion
  • Insanity
  • Induced

• I grew up in a culturally radical home, where strong emotions were forbidden.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Up
  • Home
  • Strong

• The most High approveth not the gifts of the wicked.

  

  Saint Patrick
  • High
  • Gifts
  • Wicked

• I've found that when everyone rallies behind a cause, and when they learn their effort can contribute something bigger, they get engaged.

  

  Aaron Koblin
  • Effort
  • Learn
  • Everyone

• I suppose I'd always been attracted to commitment-phobes because some part of me felt unlovable. It was a lot easier to fall for a guy who I knew, on some level, wouldn't fall in love with me. There was nothing to risk. The real risk would be to finally be vulnerable to love.

  

  Laura Fraser
  • Guy
  • Risk
  • Commitment

• I'm a songwriter, and I understand artistic licence. We can embellish, go on little journeys and explore our inner selves. It can be quite self-indulgent.

  

  Laura Marling
  • Understand
  • Explore
  • Little

• reasonable men, they went because we were there. There’s something in our world that makes men lose their heads-they couldn’t be fair if they tried.

  

  Harper Lee
  • World
  • Men

• Good-night; ensured release,Imperishable peace,Have these for yours,While sea abides, and land,And earth's foundations stand,And heaven endures.

  

  A. E. Housman
  • Good
  • Night
  • Earth

• Did I have a responsibility to discuss issues? Absolutely. Bobby Dylan was discussing issues – Disney wasn’t.

  

  Ralph Bakshi
  • Responsibility
  • Disney

• A philosopher of imposing stature doesn't think in a vacuum. Even his most abstract ideas are, to some extent, conditioned by what is or is not known in the time when he lives.

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Time

• If the tenth of the population that is gay became visible tomorrow, the panic of the majority of people would inspire repressive legislation of a sort that would shock even the pessimists among us.

  

  Jane Rule
  • People
  • Gay

• I don't think you can approach any piece of art with boundaries or rules. I think respect is a very important thing, but I also think what we discover along the way is really important.

  

  Jake Gyllenhaal
  • Important
  • Art
  • Respect

• The joy I get from work is just huge.

  

  Lucy Davis
  • Work
  • Joy

• If there's anybody who is recognized as the one guy who has stymied Alaskan development, it's Bill Clinton.

  

  Lisa Murkowski
  • Guy

• It would be wrong for us to offer difference from the Conservative Party at the cost of credibility, but equally it would be wrong to offer credibility at the cost of being clear that there remain very fundamental differences.

  

  Douglas Alexander
  • Party

• I wrote 'Snowy' as a result of spending a week on a narrow boat with daily classes of children, helping them to write about canal life, the work of barges, the simple pleasure of watching the water creatures. There was no doubt that the star of their week was Snowy, the working barge horse who pulled us daily along the towpath.

  

  Berlie Doherty
  • Life
  • Work
  • Children

• I guess I am basically most comfortable when I'm alone. As a kid, I was very much a loner. I love long distance running and long distance biking. A director once pointed out that those are all very isolated exercises you do for hours at a time.

  

  Kevin Conroy
  • Time
  • Long
  • Running

• I grew up in Brooklyn, N.Y., and I'm a great believer that you can't have too conservative a President nor too liberal a Supreme Court. So I'm a walking contradiction. I believe that you should try to really protect people's rights in every way, and also, people should be allowed to do what they do.

  

  Jerry Della Femina
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.

  

  Susannah York
  • Deal
  • Scotland
  • Brought Up

• Of course I would never compare myself to someone who actually went through a war, but I definitely matured shooting 'The Pacific.' I'm more calm and I have more patience.

  

  Rami Malek
  • War
  • Myself
  • Patience

• Now, I don't want to give you the impression that I'm a great musicologist, but I'm a lot better than what I was described as for a long, long time; you know, people said I only knew three chords when I knew five.

  

  Leonard Cohen
  • People
  • Time
  • Great

• The time draws near the birth of Christ; The moon is hid; the night is still; The Christmas bells from hill to hill Answer each other in the mist.

  

  Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Moon
  • Bells
  • Birth Of Christ

• Man, made after God's image, was a nobler creation than twinkling sparks in the sky, or than the larger and more useful lamp of the moon.

  

  David Brewster
  • Moon
  • Sky
  • Made