Robert Green Ingersoll Quotes

In order to appreciate a great man, we must know his surroundings. We must understand the scope of the drama in which he played - the part he acted - and we must also know his audience.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: lawyer
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: August 11, 1833 - July 21, 1899

Topics

GreatManAppreciateGreat ManDrama

Victory has a thousand fathers, but defeat is an orphan.

John F. Kennedy

SuccessVictoryDefeatOrphan

Let us put theology out of religion. Theology has always sent the worst to heaven, the best to hell.

Robert Green Ingersoll

BestReligionHellHeavenWorstOut

Whether I'm on the road or at home, I get a great deal done on elliptical machines. I use my iPad to conquer my email inbox, listen to audio books, use my Voxer Walkie Talkie app, and read through documents.

Amy Jo Martin

HomeGreatRoadConquerDoneListen

Imagination, the traitor of the mind, has taken my solitude and slain it.

Robinson Jeffers

ImaginationMindSolitudeTraitor

I do believe that the genre reached its peak before the First World War.

Robyn Davidson

WarWorldBelieveFirstPeakGenre

I'm not the only one; most people's mothers are the most influential person in their life. But my mother survived the camps, and she was very strong. She made me strong, but she wanted me to be strong. That's more important.

Diane von Furstenberg

LifeMotherBe StrongPeopleMeShe

We must have moral education in the schools, anti-bullying programs, but this does not mean programs to feminize boys.

Christina Hoff Sommers

EducationMoralMeanMustDoes

When popularity is your only goal, doing well in class is going to feature very low, if at all, on your priority list.

Arabella Weir

DoingGoalClassPopularityGoing

I do not choose characters because I think, 'Wow, that woman is so strong.' I chose these characters with utmost conviction because I think they were realistic enough to exist, and I really liked the scripts.

Anushka Sharma

WomanStrongThinkEnoughChoose

With the emergence of civilization, the rate of change shifted from hundreds of thousands of years to millennia. With the emergence of science as a way of knowing the universe, the rate of change shifted to centuries.

William Irwin Thompson

ChangeScienceUniverseCivilization

The government is shutting down the coal industry, they say it's cheaper to draw nuclear power off the French grid and cheaper to buy coal from Colombia.

Martin Cruz Smith

PowerGovernmentDownSayThey Say

I used to get stuck trying to find the first sentence of a story, then I realised that it was often because I didn't know what problem a character was facing in the story. As soon as I did, I could have the character trying to do something about it or have the problem whack him between the eyes.

Morris Gleitzman

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