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.

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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

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

  

  Saint Patrick
  • High
  • Gifts
  • Wicked

• 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

• 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

• 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

• The joy I get from work is just huge.

  

  Lucy Davis
  • Work
  • Joy

• 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 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 wish everyone was a sci-fi geek because then there would be no violence in the world. There'd be no wars. There'd only be people e-mailing each other.

  

  Claudia Christian
  • People
  • World
  • Wish

• Honestly, I feel like we are a walking protest. The fact that we're women professional athletes says that in and of itself. We've been feeling the inequality; we've been struggling with pay equality or whatever it is, or sexism in sports.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • Women
  • Feeling
  • Sports

• Being a gay American, I know what it means to look at the flag and not have it protect all of your liberties.

  

  Megan Rapinoe
  • American
  • Gay

• I wasn't a fan of boxing, I was a fan of Julio Cesar Chavez. All of Mexico stopped to watch his fights. Old, young, left, right and centre.

  

  Diego Luna
  • Boxing

• The domination of the public way in which things have been interpreted has already decided upon even the possibilities of being attuned, that is, about the basic way in which Da-sein lets itself be affected by the world. The they prescribes that attunement, it determines what and how one 'sees.'

  

  Martin Heidegger
  • World

• The abstract human mind will have to receive the intended impression by its own means. I always confine myself to expressing the universal, that is, the eternal (closest to the spirit) and I do so in the simplest of external forms, in order to be able to express the inner meaning as lightly veiled as possible.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Mind

• Facebook is made up of people you've met, but not necessarily who are similar to you. I have 850 'friends,' and a lot are acquaintances, not friends. I don't really know them. If I've met someone one time, how should they be influencing my feed?

  

  Garrett Camp
  • People
  • Up
  • Time

• Nothing says holidays, like a cheese log.

  

  Ellen DeGeneres

• Without destruction there is no creation... there is no change.

  

  Oda Nobunaga
  • Changes
  • Creation
  • Destruction

• 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