Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Quotes

I think that man has a fundamental obligation to extract from himself and from the earth all that it can give; and this obligation is all the more imperative that we are absolutely ignorant of what limits - they may still be very distant - God has imposed on our natural understanding and power.

Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: philosopher
  • Nationality: french
  • Birth: May 1, 1881 - April 10, 1955

Topics

GodPowerManLimitsThinkEarth

Teachers have the hardest and most important jobs in America. They're building our nation. And we should appreciate them, respect them, and pay them well.

Jim Hunt

RespectBuildingAppreciateAmerica

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

Jo Brand

FunnyThoughtDoingYouResultsTry

I think VAR is a very healthy development within the industry.

John Hull

ThinkHealthyDevelopmentWithin

I get a trickling few scripts that I'm lucky enough that some of them are great. I don't get loads of scripts.

Meryl Streep

GreatEnoughLuckyGetSomeFew

Dog - a kind of additional or subsidiary Deity designed to catch the overflow and surplus of the world's worship.

Ambrose Bierce

DogWorldKindWorshipCatchDeity

Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.

Sinclair Lewis

BecomeSafeEverySterileCompulsion

There were a lot of people, I found, who'd rather watch me live my life than live their own life.

Steve Mann

LifeLivePeopleMeMy LifeOwn

Depression is like pushing a car up a hill. It takes all my energy to push the car up the hill. I don't have any energy left to write.

Tony Earley

CarDepressionEnergyPushHillUp

Just a tiny bit of effort leaves me exhausted. Sometimes I just go up the stairs to my room, and I feel tired.

Ronaldo

EffortTiredMeFeelStairsGo

For example, the opposition between acute and grave phonemes has the capacity to suggest an image of bright and dark, of pointed and rounded, of thin and thick, of light and heavy, etc.

Roman Jakobson

LightDarkBrightImageHeavyThick

Experience shows that when political governance and economic management diverge, overall development becomes unsustainable.

Mo Ibrahim

ExperienceManagementPoliticalShows

I am a professor at Stanford; I am a happy professor at Stanford. That's where I'm staying.

Condoleezza Rice

I AmHappyProfessorWhereStaying

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