George W. S. Trow Quotes

For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

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• My primary interest has always been about exploring the human psyche and humanity.

  

  Dana Snyder
  • Always
  • Humanity
  • Human

• I think the NAACP isn't recognized enough for all of the work it does, especially in the field of law. They may have faded from view over the last couple of decades, but they are fighting the good fight.

  

  Tayari Jones
  • Good
  • Work
  • May

• Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.

  

  Ada Lovelace
  • Science
  • Language
  • Feel

• I tell people that I'm a Christian, but I don't think it's giving an insight into who I am or what I'm about.

  

  Sally Phillips
  • People
  • Christian
  • Insight

• I'm proud of the fact that I was able to overcome long odds.

  

  Karen Handel
  • Long
  • Proud
  • Overcome

• When I'm getting to know someone, I look for someone who has passions that I respect, like his career. Someone who loves what he does is really attractive.

  

  Taylor Swift
  • Career
  • Know
  • Respect

• Film-making is not liberating. It drains a lot out of you, and it's fulfilling only temporarily. It's a very thankless thing at times. When you're spending all that time on a film, you don't want 40,000 people to see it - it's just not enough. You dream of more.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • People
  • Time
  • Dream

• The work of the individual still remains the spark that moves mankind ahead even more than teamwork.

  

  Igor Sikorsky
  • Work
  • Business
  • Teamwork

• Mourning in America, Savage Love column, The Stranger, 15 November 2016

  

  Dan Savage
  • America
  • Savage
  • November

• Here below is not the land of happiness: I know it now; it is only the land of toil, and every joy which comes to us is only to strengthen us for some greater labor that is to succeed.

  

  Johann Gottlieb Fichte
  • Joy
  • Happiness
  • Succeed

• Brotherhood doesn't come in a package. It is not a commodity to be taken down from the shelf with one hand - it is an accomplishment of soul-searching, prayer and perseverance.

  

  Oveta Culp Hobby
  • Soul
  • Hand
  • Taken

• Can you get halfway around the world? Can you do a walking trail of the movie?

  

  Keanu Reeves
  • World
  • Movie
  • Walking

• I've seen Bruno Mars before, he's amazing.

  

  Alessandra Ambrosio
  • Amazing
  • Bruno Mars

• Fortitude is the disposition of soul which enables us to despise all inconveniences and the loss of things not in our power.

  

  Saint Augustine
  • Power
  • Soul

• Sticking your head in the sand might make you feel safer, but it’s not going to protect you from the coming storm.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Storm

• Well, better expelled and able to defend yourselves than sitting safely in school without a clue," said Sirius.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • School

• Be unselfish. That is the first and final commandment for those who would be useful and happy in their usefulness. If you think of yourself only, you cannot develop because you are choking the source of development, which is spiritual expansion through thought for others.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Happy
  • Spiritual
  • Useful

• Yes, I know what passion would fill me with all its power. Before, I was too young. I got in the way. Now I know that acting and loving and suffering is living, of course, but it’s only living insofar as you can be transparent and accept your fate, like the unique reflection of a rainbow of joys and passions which is the same for everyone.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Passion
  • Fate
  • Joys

• Our problem in Quebec is our summer is so short that we can't wear bathing suits, whatever, what kind of bathing suit. So I mean, we have this debate with political parties involved whether we should forbid the burkini yes or no, and this was in the media, you know, front page for days and days and days. This is wildly exaggerated. And people that don't live for instance in Montreal, where they don't have a diverse population, they think this is a real problem.

  

  Andre Pratte
  • Problem
  • Population
  • Quebec

• I do agree that when a singer sings all the songs for one actor in a film, the impact is much better.

  

  Mohit Chauhan
  • Impact
  • Singer
  • Much

• What is not surrounded by uncertainty cannot be the truth.

  

  Richard Feynman
  • Uncertainty

• Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

  

  R. Buckminster Fuller
  • Dead
  • Clothes
  • Suit

• For members of a traditional society where many traditions have been discredited, an interest in modernity can result in a restless sophistication. Mehmet Ertegun seems not to have been a restless man.

  

  George W. S. Trow
  • Interest
  • Result
  • Traditions