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John Henry Newman Quotes

If we insist on being as sure as is conceivable... we must be content to creep along the ground, and never soar.

John Henry Newman

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: british
Birth: February 21, 1801 - August 11, 1890

Topics

Soar Never Content Ground Must Sure

I'm a curious person, and I always like to test new waters, and I've always jumped into the cold water and then started to think about how to swim.

Water Curious Cold Think Person New

We understand that America's prosperity is bound up with the prosperity of other nations, including emerging market nations.

America Prosperity Understand Up

There's the human side of people who are in public life that connects people. Whether it's favorable or unfavorable, it gives them some connection with the person who's onstage, and I think those connections are edifying.

Life People Think Connections Person

A high standard of living cannot remain the exclusive possession of the West - and the sooner we can help other peoples to develop their resources, raise their living standards, and strengthen their national independence, the safer the world will be for us all.

World Independence Help Living Will

I made a real specific decision when I came out of school and most artists were writing about home - if you were a woman, you were writing about being a woman - and I decided not to do that, write about what you know. That's not what I do. I went as far away from home as possible in terms of the development of my imagination.

Anna Deavere Smith

Home Decision Imagination Woman You

Where we are really well positioned is that we can bring skills to the party. We can fix factories, we can fix operations, and we have a good geographical presence.

Good Party Skills Fix Presence Well

Amazing that the human race has taken enough time out from thinking about food or sex to create the arts and sciences.

Time Food Amazing Thinking Enough

A lot of times good, pristine recordings prevent the listener from getting emotionally involved in the music.

Good Music Involved Prevent Listener

A compromise is the art of dividing a cake in such a way that everyone believes he has the biggest piece.

Art Cake Compromise Way Everyone He

I really consider acting a high art.

Art Acting High Consider Really

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.

Pants Tell Sit Dime Many Thin

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

School New York Theatre Thought Look

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