George Davis Herron Quotes

The hope of the social reformer is to open wide the gates of opportunity, so that every creature, from the least to the greatest, may make his life a moral adventure and a joy, and exhaust his possibilities in the thing he can best do.

George Davis Herron

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• There have been a lot of exercises and I've had to force myself to go out for walks even when I didn't feel like it, but apart from that, I am a lot better.

  

  Magnus Magnusson
  • Better
  • Walks
  • Exercises

• In the investment business, you must expect to be wrong.

  

  Barry Ritholtz
  • Business
  • You
  • Investment

• Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.

  

  Barbara De Angelis
  • You
  • Moment
  • Gift

• If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.

  

  Randy Moss
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Playing

• My first languages are German and Spanish because I was brought up by a Spanish mother and a German father, so I always spoke both languages at home. I'm very thankful that I was brought up in a bilingual house.

  

  Daniel Bruhl
  • Up
  • Home
  • Mother

• Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.

  

  Dan Harmon
  • Pretty
  • Stuck
  • Truthfully

• There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Always
  • Someone
  • Toy

• The Bible never tells us what Jesus looked like, and in the earliest surviving paintings of him, he is sometimes depicted as short-haired, sometimes as beardless, with no authoritative version winning out over the others. Yet around 400 A.D., all of the other competing images were replaced by the long-haired, bearded Jesus we know today.

  

  Ian Caldwell
  • Long
  • Today
  • Jesus

• My father was a banker, but he was an independent spirit. He was a very good pianist and very much into music.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Good
  • Music
  • Father

• I needed something to challenge myself a little more. I found fighting, and it completely fit my personality.

  

  Paige VanZant
  • Myself
  • Fighting
  • Challenge

• I will always want to do whatever it is that my heart is in, and whether I get paid for it or not means nothing. It doesn't matter. I'll do it if it means something to me and I want to be a part of it.

  

  Cameron Diaz
  • Heart
  • Want
  • Me

• We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.

  

  Ingrid Thulin
  • Worked
  • Parts
  • Even

• It might sound odd, but filming a soap is closer to acting in a play than filming episodic television.

  

  Kassie DePaiva
  • Play
  • Acting
  • Television

• When I began to write as a very young person in a rigidly racist and inhibited colonial society, I felt, as many others did, that I existed marginally on the edge of the world of ideas, of imagination and beauty. These, taking shape in poetry and fiction, drama, painting and sculpture, were exclusive to that distant realm known as 'overseas'.

  

  Nadine Gordimer
  • World
  • Society
  • Imagination

• La Tia was fearless, but that could mean either that she had no guile or that she had no conscience.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • She
  • Fearless

• Le bonheur est salutaire pour le corps, mais c'est le chagrin qui développe les forces de l'esprit.

  

  Marcel Proust

• Never. The shot is too big for the cannon.

  

  Laurence Olivier

• I wanted to have a label to not only release my own stuff but to also give young talent a chance to release their music without signing away their life. I had a great time with Spinnin', and the people I worked with were amazing, but the contract wasn't really for me. It wasn't what I wanted.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• When you go to war, it's important for everybody to know that they're going to come home in one way or other.

  

  Elliot Ackerman
  • Important
  • Home
  • War

• Money is catching up to the technological trends transforming all aspects of society and business; entertainment, insurance, health-care, gaming, leisure, retail - all commercial and social verticals are going digital - including money itself.

  

  Max Keiser
  • Up
  • Money
  • Business

• I'm actually really opposed to the death penalty.

  

  Bill Paxton
  • Death

• Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

  

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau
  • Life
  • Good
  • Success

• The reason why books endure is because there are enough people who like them. It's the only reason why books last.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • People
  • Why
  • Reason

• The hope of the social reformer is to open wide the gates of opportunity, so that every creature, from the least to the greatest, may make his life a moral adventure and a joy, and exhaust his possibilities in the thing he can best do.

  

  George Davis Herron
  • Life
  • Hope
  • Opportunity