Leslie Stephen Quotes

The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

Leslie Stephen

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• I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.

  

  Fay Wray
  • People
  • Life
  • Care

• Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Long
  • Yourself
  • Loneliness

• Katie Holmes is really amazing.

  

  Bailee Madison
  • Amazing
  • Holmes
  • Katie

• Getting four people awake, fed, dressed, and out the door on time is a challenge. Add to that making a school lunch, and you can tilt over the edge. Unless you are well prepared and have a simple method to follow.

  

  Tamra Davis
  • People
  • Time
  • School

• I may have more than one friend with benefits. It's very healthy for the heart. I think no matter how old you are - and I am pretty up there in terms of numbers - I think you should do whatever makes you happy.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Heart
  • Happy
  • Pretty

• I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.

  

  Gabrielle Aplin
  • People
  • Music
  • Day

• One of the things I like best about the Halloween show is that I change outfits about six times in the show. It is a lot of fun to play the different characters.

  

  Nancy Kerrigan
  • Different
  • Fun
  • Change

• Inasmuch as society cannot go on without discipline of some kind, men were constrained, in the absence of any other form of discipline, to turn to discipline of the military type.

  

  Irving Babbitt
  • Men
  • Society
  • Military

• Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.

  

  Daniel Craig
  • Life
  • Things
  • Everyday

• Stealing is stealing. I don't care if it's on the Internet or you're breaking into a warehouse somewhere - it's theft.

  

  Patrick Leahy
  • You
  • Care
  • Internet

• Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Want
  • Respect
  • Dress

• In early Islam, it was an absolute tenet that the prophet was not to be worshipped. The prophet was a messenger. And one of the things that's happened in Islam is this cult of the prophet, which to my view is counter to the original tradition.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Tradition
  • View
  • Islam

• One of the things that made the Internet so explosive and such an economic and intellectual force is because of the free-market enterprise in a country like the U.S. controlling access to it.

  

  Ted Yoho
  • Country
  • Free
  • Force

• Power! Did you ever hear of men being asked whether other souls should have power or not? It is born in them.

  

  Olive Schreiner
  • Men
  • Power
  • Born

• After I learned the piano, I went on to learn percussion, the tuba, b-flat baritone, French horn, trombone, trumpet, most of the instruments in the orchestra. Trumpet was my instrument.

  

  Quincy Jones
  • Learn
  • Piano
  • Orchestra

• The idea of us telling a story where a character doesn't get everything he wants at the end is one of the relatable things - dealing with failures and missteps in life - and it's something that's so rarely dealt with in movies, especially kids' movies.

  

  Dan Scanlon
  • Life
  • Character
  • Kids

• Real courage is when you know you're licked before you begin, but you begin anyway and see it through no matter what.

  

  Harper Lee
  • Real
  • Know
  • Courage

• You can't change anyone else, but people do change in relationship to your change.

  

  Jack Canfield
  • People
  • Change
  • Relationship

• Bridges would not be safer if only people who knew the proper definition of a real number were allowed to design them.

  

  H. L. Mencken
  • People
  • Real
  • Design

• You go through that stage where you're coming up with the concept, ideas and all that you need to make a record. It always feels like hard labor.

  

  Matt Shultz Cage the Elephant
  • Ideas
  • Feels
  • Needs

• After speaking with community leaders, faith leaders, and voters across the District during my campaign, I came to understand that visiting Israel was necessary to obtain a full and proper perspective on our relationship with our strongest ally in the Middle East.

  

  John Delaney
  • Faith
  • Community
  • Relationship

• Speeches easy to young speakers are generally very difficult to old listeners.

  

  Anthony Trollope

• To sit for one's portrait is like being present at one's own creation.

  

  Alexander Smith
  • Present

• The division between faith and reason is a half-measure, till it is frankly admitted that faith has to do with fiction, and reason with fact.

  

  Leslie Stephen
  • Faith