Arthur Holly Compton Quotes

It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed made it possible for him to become human.

Arthur Holly Compton

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• That which comes and goes, rises and sets, is born and dies is the ego. That which always abides, never changes, and is devoid of qualities is the Self.

  

  Ramana Maharshi
  • Changes
  • Ego
  • Self

• My mother used to push 'Wuthering Heights' on me as a boy, and I sensed from her breathy description of the story that it would make me laugh. I have no plans to find out if this is true.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • True
  • Mother
  • Me

• If people watch 'Broad City' very closely, we just drop lines about people we love, just to say we like them.

  

  Abbi Jacobson
  • People
  • City
  • Like

• I'm a big fan of movies, but I'm a bigger fan of filmmaking itself. I fell in love with it when I was very young, and I have always loved to learn the craft, every aspect of it.

  

  Fede Alvarez
  • Learn
  • Movies
  • Fan

• I developed a mechanism so that whatever mistakes I made, I would bounce straight back. Whatever was happening off the pitch, I could put it to one side and maintain my form. Call it mental resilience or a strong mind, but that is what we mean when we talk about experience in a football team.

  

  Gary Neville
  • Mind
  • Experience
  • Strong

• The one thing I've always demanded of the records I've made is that they be danceable.

  

  Henry Saint Clair Fredericks
  • Always
  • Made
  • One Thing

• I met my husband through a mutual friend. He invited me over for dinner and cooked this meal that knocked my socks off - and maybe knocked off a few other pieces of clothing off as well.

  

  Eden Riegel
  • Friend
  • Husband
  • Dinner

• By the 2010s, almost everybody in the developed world, it seemed, had a powerful digital device that took little or no special skills or training to use.

  

  Walt Mossberg
  • World
  • Powerful
  • Training

• Money is neither god nor devil, that it should make one noble and another vile. It is an accident, and if honestly possessed, may pass from you to me, or from me to you, without a stain.

  

  Anthony Trollope
  • God
  • Money
  • May

• If the ride is more fly, you must buy

  

  Snoop Dogg
  • Fly

• Softly, at first, as if it hardly meant it, the snow began to fall.

  

  Arthur Ransome
  • Fall
  • Snow

• I had a whole bunch of very successful movies. I have worked with some incredible people - incredible.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • People

• Aren't people supposed to do movies so that they can get girls?

  

  Lucas Till
  • People

• The cinema occupies an important place in the overall development of art and literature.

  

  Kim Jong Il
  • Important
  • Art
  • Literature

• Islam does not believe in democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, or freedom of assembly. It does not separate religion and politics. It is partly a religion, but it is much more than that. It has a political agenda that goes far outside the realm of religion.

  

  Pauline Hanson
  • Believe
  • Political
  • Freedom

• R&B needs to see a new light. It doesn't have to be pigeonholed.

  

  Dawn Angeliqué Richard
  • Light

• There is no such thing as disappointment for those who continue to cherish the selflessness of which is born the noblest inner self. There is no such thing as failure for those who invest in the potentialities of the Ideal of the Soul.

  

  Ameen Rihani
  • Soul
  • Failure
  • Disappointment

• From the first time I harangued my mother into buying me a pair of platform sandals at the irascible and persistent age of 11, I've worn heels.

  

  Mary H.K. Choi
  • Time
  • Mother
  • Age

• Work is my salvation. It changes my moods.

  

  Zane Grey
  • Work
  • Changes
  • Salvation

• People are forgetting how crazy President 43 was.

  

  Jason Jones
  • People
  • Crazy

• I'm not very good at going to sleep, and that's probably my worst problem. I don't need much more than seven and a half hours, but I probably get six. I take all my problems to bed with me and fret. I can't switch off.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Good
  • Problem
  • Sleep

• I performed it all the way through for people. People would say, "We love you, we want to sign you," and then there'd always be one person who'd say, "He's just a producer."

  

  Kanye West
  • People

• Men respect the silent; they despise the garrulous.

  

  Conn Iggulden
  • Men
  • Respect
  • Despise

• It is primarily through the growth of science and technology that man has acquired those attributes which distinguish him from the animals, which have indeed made it possible for him to become human.

  

  Arthur Holly Compton