George Coyne Quotes

I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

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• There's an interesting contrast between born Catholics and converts. Converts are often much more rule-directed. Catholicism isn't something that they breathed in from their childhood, so they think that if you don't toe the line on abstract doctrine you can't be part of the Church.

  

  Garry Wills
  • Think
  • Interesting
  • Church

• People are overwhelmed looking up at the Mount Everest of environmental challenges that we face. But you put one foot in front of the other and you recognize that not everyone is Sir Edmund Hillary.

  

  Ed Begley, Jr.
  • People
  • Up
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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• I don't like to travel as much as I have in the past, but it's good for my soul to get to pick, especially with these good musicians and these guys that play so well.

  

  Earl Scruggs
  • Good
  • Soul
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• The same way one tells a recipe, one tells a family history. Each one of us has our past locked inside.

  

  Laura Esquivel
  • Family
  • History
  • Past

• In the past, I used to argue with those who didn't share my views. I felt this incredible need to 'make my point.' Now I live my life and do my best to be an example of what seems right to me.

  

  Victoria Moran
  • Life
  • Live
  • Past

• In order for innovation to happen, a bunch of things that aren't happening on closed platforms need to occur. Valve wouldn't exist today without the PC, or Epic, or Zynga, or Google. They all wouldn't have existed without the openness of the platform.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • Today
  • Innovation
  • Google

• Strauss' water activities, which highlight both its social responsibility and commitment to the environment, meet a genuine need of people around the world today.

  

  Ofra Strauss
  • People
  • World
  • Today

• The word 'geek' today does not mean what it used to mean. A geek isn't the skinny kid with a pocket protector and acne. There can be computer geeks, video game geeks, car geeks, military geeks, and sports geeks. Being a geek just means that you're passionate about something.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Today
  • Game
  • Car

• Alone is a much better film than House of the Dead and better than most horror movies out today.

  

  Uwe Boll
  • Today
  • House
  • Alone

• People always think they're in the middle of a revolution while they tend not to realize the enormity of a change that has happened in the past. The telegraph was a revolution, but who looks at it that way these days? The telegraph sped up the transportation of messages over long distances by a huge factor.

  

  Ha-Joon Chang
  • People
  • Up
  • Long

• There is only one conflict in Ukraine today and it is between the regime and the people.

  

  Viktor Yushchenko
  • People
  • Today
  • Conflict

• If the creative artist worries if he will still be free tomorrow, then he will not be free today.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Today
  • Free
  • Creative

• I hate the past - especially my own past.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
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  • Hate
  • Own

• But if we can manage it so people don't have things forced on them that they don't want, I think there's every reason to believe things can settle out in a situation that is recognizably better than the one we're stuck in today.

  

  K. Eric Drexler
  • People
  • Believe
  • Today

• Self-discipline is an act of cultivation. It requires you to connect today's actions to tomorrow's results. There's a season for sowing a season for reaping. Self-discipline helps you know which is which.

  

  Gary Ryan Blair
  • Today
  • Discipline
  • Tomorrow

• Sometimes I have problems where I get into a mode where even just looking at a page on a screen makes me panic. And getting past that is a really intense thing to do.

  

  Rachel Swirsky
  • Past
  • Problems
  • Page

• Our image of happiness is indissolubly bound up with the image of the past.

  

  Walter Benjamin
  • Up
  • Past

• When I was a young boy, my father taught me that to be a good Catholic, I had to confess at church if I ever had impure thoughts about a girl. That very evening, I had to rush to confess my sin. And the next night, and the next. After a week, I decided religion wasn't for me.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Good
  • Father
  • Night

• Roger Revelle died of a heart attack three months after the Cosmos story was printed. Oh, how I wish he were still alive today. He might be able to stop this scientific silliness and end the global warming scam. He might well stand beside me as a global warming denier.

  

  John Coleman
  • Heart
  • Today
  • Stop

• Morality is standing by your friends, standing by people when it's not popular. It's sacrificing things on a big international stage, and sometimes it's sacrificing your basic comforts.

  

  Sandra Bernhard
  • People
  • Sometimes
  • Sacrifice

• Justice to others and to ourselves is the same; that we cannot define our duties by mathematical lines ruled by the square, but must fill with them the great circle traced by the compasses

  

  Albert Pike
  • Great
  • Justice

• I do feel at times like I'm always proving myself. But I also feel that I'm proven. I've proven I can get to the mountaintop.

  

  Andre Ward

• I think today the church faces a very real challenge in not repeating the errors of the past, in sort of a stand off, a fear of science.

  

  George Coyne
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