George Dana Boardman Pepper Quotes

The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.

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• Science has not been successful by making up explanations of things that fit with the current social fabric.

  

  Kary Mullis
  • Up
  • Science
  • Successful

• My U.N. five-point plan focuses on preventing proliferation, strengthening the legal regime, and ensuring nuclear safety and security - an effort that was given good momentum by the Nuclear Security Summit held in Seoul earlier this year. The world is over-armed, and peace is underfunded.

  

  Ban Ki-moon
  • World
  • Good
  • Peace

• I'm a much more chill person now that I know who I am and know my own voice, so I don't really get nervous with live TV at all.

  

  Olivia Munn
  • Live
  • Voice
  • Chill

• When I trade, I don't have an agency problem; I have my neck on the line. When a bank or banker trades, it's not his neck on the line.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Problem
  • Trade
  • Bank

• And you know, art as commerce, doesn't really make too much sense, they don't go together.

  

  Talib Kweli Black Star
  • Art
  • Together
  • Know

• The pace at which people are taking to digital technology defies our stereotypes of age, education, language and income.

  

  Narendra Modi
  • People
  • Age
  • Education

• Don't you think this outlaw bit has done got out of hand?What started out to be a joke, the law don't understand.Was it singing through my nose that got me busted by the man?Maybe this here outlaw bit has done got out of hand.

  

  Waylon Jennings
  • Done
  • Law
  • Hand

• Yes I did when I was at university 30 years ago, just for a short time.

  

  Harriet Harman
  • Time

• If he votes against, that's the only principled position. If he abstains, it's a cop-out; if he votes for, it's a sell-out.

  

  Harriet Harman

• Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Decision

• My work should be judged as it enters the ears and heads of listeners, not as it is described to the eyes of readers.

  

  Arnold Schoenberg
  • Work
  • Eyes

• We work very closely together on the issue of annexation of Crimea and Russia’s attempt to actually conquer Ukraine. And actually they did so - conquered part of the territory. We tried to come to a peaceful settlement here on this.

  

  Angela Merkel
  • Work
  • Together

• Every revolutionary ends as an oppressor or a heretic.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Ends
  • Revolutionary
  • Heretic

• For the majority of people, though they do not know what to do with this life, long for another that shall have no end.

  

  Anatole France
  • People
  • Life
  • Long

• I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.

  

  Joanna Lumley

• Growing up, I never felt like the pretty girl.

  

  Jessie Mueller
  • Up
  • Pretty
  • Girl

• I speak my mind. If it offends some people, well, there's not much I can do about that. But I'm going to be honest. I'm going to continue to speak my mind, and that's who I am.

  

  Jesse Ventura
  • People
  • Mind

• I love Mexican food, and there's a really good restaurant called El Parador that I love.

  

  Jacquelyn Jablonski
  • Good
  • Food
  • Mexican

• Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

  

  L. Frank Baum
  • World
  • Heart
  • Brain

• In ancient times, those who wished to illuminate the world with virtue first brought order to their nations. Wishing to order well their nations, they first harmonized their families. Wishing to harmonize their families, they first cultivated themselves. Wishing to cultivate themselves, they first rectified their minds. Those who wished to rectify their minds first made their intentions sincere.

  

  Confucius
  • Families
  • Ancient
  • Wishing

• I go to conventions and universities and talk to young filmmakers and everybody's making a zombie movie! It's because it's easy to get the neighbors to come out, put some ketchup on them.

  

  George A. Romero
  • Movie

• I'm definitely neurotic. I don't cross streets and stuff.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • Streets
  • Cross
  • Neurotic

• My long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three Apples I didn't pick upon some bough. But I am done with apple-picking now. Essence of winter sleep is on the night, The scent of apples: I am drowsing off.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Long
  • Done
  • May

• The cross is the only ladder high enough to touch Heaven's threshold.

  

  George Dana Boardman Pepper
  • Heaven
  • Touch
  • Cross