Arthur Holly Compton Quotes

Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

Arthur Holly Compton

• World
• Family
• May
• Persons
• Social
• Welfare

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.

  

  Octavia Spencer
  • People
  • Up
  • Money

• If Bret went in there and stunk the place out, then they probably wouldn't have brought the little brother in. So just by being successful himself, it opened the door for me.

  

  Owen Hart
  • Brother
  • Door
  • Successful

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Defeat
  • Useful
  • Soviet

• The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

  

  Hannah Arendt
  • Men
  • Different
  • Desire

• I tend to boycott all teenage reading while I'm trying to write my own stuff.

  

  Mal Peet
  • Trying
  • Reading
  • My Own

• Love is a state of Being. Your love is not outside; it is deep within you. You can never lose it, and it cannot leave you. It is not dependent on some other body, some external form.

  

  Eckhart Tolle
  • Never
  • Being
  • Lose

• The moment to tell my barber I was gay just never came up.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Up
  • Gay
  • Moment

• I've found a formula for avoiding these exaggerated fears of age; you take care of every day - let the calendar take care of the years.

  

  Ed Wynn
  • Age
  • Day
  • Calendar

• I got irritated with people asking us the same questions. Like, 'Are you a real band?' Journalists wanted to slay us, tried to cut us down, and I just started caring less and less about doing interviews. With Facebook and Instagram, you kind of don't need to anyway. But now and again, we'll do something when there's new information to share.

  

  Yolandi Visser
  • People
  • Real
  • Band

• We always talk about how you have to build a brand from the inside out, not the outside in. Brands are not wrappers. Brands are based on the values of the founders, and then they spread to the people who work for the company, and then that psychological contract is spread to the customer.

  

  Dan Levitan
  • People
  • Work
  • Brand

• My satisfaction comes from my commitment to advancing a better world.

  

  Faye Wattleton
  • World
  • Better
  • Commitment

• It takes a couple of years just to get the background and knowledge that you need before you can go into detailed training for your mission.

  

  Sally Ride
  • Knowledge
  • Couple
  • Training

• Our government is ready to guarantee their investments for them, and then we will create tax incentives. We are interested in having all these things and with the privatization we also want to create more jobs and better conditions for the workers.

  

  Ibrahim Rugova
  • Want
  • Government
  • Better

• The object before us, to begin with, material production.

  

  Karl Marx

• I love the life of an actor because you spend brief amounts of time with other people and then you just leave. I need to be alone a lot, and I need the outdoors.

  

  Madeleine Stowe
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• Revenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.

  

  Edward Gibbon
  • Gratitude
  • Revenge

• Rome has grown since its humble beginnings that it is now overwhelmed by its own greatness.

  

  Livy
  • Humble
  • Greatness

• Silence marks time, saturates and shapes African-American art. Silences structure our music, fill the spaces - point, counterpoint - of rhythm, cadence, phrasing.

  

  John Edgar Wideman
  • Time
  • Music
  • Art

• If Amsterdam or Leningrad vie for the title of Venice of the North, then Venice - what compliment is high enough? Venice, with all her civilisation and ancient beauty, Venice with her addiction to curious aquatic means of transport, yes, my friends, Venice is the Henley of the South.

  

  Boris Johnson
  • Friends
  • High
  • Addiction

• Success always obsoletes the very behavior that achieved it.

  

  Peter Drucker
  • Success

• The subconscious mind will translate into its physical equivalent a thought impulse of a negative or destructive nature, just as readily as it will act upon thought impulses of a positive or constructive nature. This accounts for the strange phenomenon which so many millions of people experience, referred to as "misfortune" or "bad luck."

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • People
  • Mind
  • Experience

• Twenty thousand years ago the family was the social unit. Now the social unit has become the world, in which it may truthfully be said that each person's welfare affects that of every other.

  

  Arthur Holly Compton
  • World
  • Family
  • May