Arthur Holly Compton Quotes

Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

Arthur Holly Compton

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• God surrounded me with people of faith, people of strong faith, people of power, spiritual power, and I saw little miracles happen in their lives. By it happening in their lives, I started believing it could happen to me.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • God
  • Power

• The country needs more than one-party dominance, as much as I believe the Democratic Party is the party for the middle class... We need to have a marketplace of ideas.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Believe
  • Country
  • Party

• There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.

  

  Harold MacMillan
  • Safety
  • Will
  • Finger

• Nobody owes anybody a living, but everybody is entitled to a chance.

  

  Jack Dempsey
  • Chance
  • Living
  • Nobody

• I am Cuban, my parents are Cuban, and I was not adopted.

  

  Oscar Nunez
  • Parents
  • Cuban

• Race differences show up early in life.

  

  J. Philippe Rushton
  • Life
  • Up
  • Race

• Jupiter from on high smiles at the perjuries of lovers.

  

  Ovid
  • High
  • Lovers
  • Smiles

• We're musicians. We make music for a living. It's that simple. Nothing else matters.

  

  Eddie Van Halen Van Halen
  • Music
  • Simple
  • Musicians

• In fact I enjoyed every minute of my life at King's, especially the discovery of French and German literature.

  

  Patrick White
  • Life
  • Literature
  • King

• We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
  • School
  • Kids
  • Age

• As a society we should be encouraging people out of the debt-culture mindset, not promoting it.

  

  Naomie Harris
  • People
  • Society
  • Culture

• So I try not to have any actual expectations for myself for any level of success or failure.

  

  Gavin DeGraw
  • Success
  • Myself
  • Failure

• My health is 100% more important than coming back to wrestling. Being a good father is more important than going out there and expounding on my belief that doing more hammerlocks in wrestling is good for the business!

  

  Daniel Bryan
  • Good
  • Important
  • Business

• The man was either foolish or fearless. Assuming there was a difference.

  

  Jack McDevitt
  • Fearless

• The whole history of computers is rampant with cheerleading at best and bigotry at worst.

  

  Larry Wall
  • History

• To introduce into the philosophy of War itself a principle of moderation would be an absurdity.

  

  Carl von Clausewitz
  • War

• I am not an atheist but an earthiest.

  

  Edward Abbey
  • Atheist

• Great feelings take with them their own universe, splendid or abject. They light up with their passion an exclusive world in which they recognize their climate. There is a universe of jealousy, of ambition, of selfishness or generosity. A universe - in other words a metaphysic and an attitude of mind.

  

  Albert Camus
  • Up
  • World
  • Great

• It is a common thing to screw up justice to the pitch of an injury. A man may be over-righteous, and why not over-grateful, too? There is a mischievous excess that borders so close upon ingratitude that it is no easy matter to distinguish the one from the other; but, in regard that there is good-will in the bottom of it, however distempered; for it is effectually but kindness out of the wits.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Justice
  • Easy

• Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment.

  

  Buddha
  • Mind
  • Future
  • Dream

• Just because a lot of people know something nominal doesn't make it important. A lot of people know what a pencil sharpener is, but that doesn't make it the most important invention of the 20th century.

  

  Ben Affleck
  • People
  • Important
  • Century

• A father's and a mother's age must be borne in mind; with joy on the one hand, fear on the other.

  

  Confucius
  • Mind
  • Age
  • Fear

• It's so acceptably easy for a woman not to strive too hard, not to be too adventure-crazed, not to take too many risks, not to enjoy sex with full candor ... It isn't seemly for a woman to have that much zest.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Risk
  • Enjoy
  • Easy

• Life in the twentieth century undeniably has ... such richness, joy and adventure as were unknown to our ancestors except in their dreams.

  

  Arthur Holly Compton
  • Dream
  • Joy
  • Adventure